#1 food plot choice
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FL Plotter
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I'm assuming you mean fall: rye/clover/chicory
If you mean summer: Eagle soybeans or ICPs
If you mean summer: Eagle soybeans or ICPs
Native Hunter
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Per acre in the fall:
3 lbs Commander Chicory
6 lbs Burdaro Red Clover
6 lbs ladino clover
25 lbs oats
25 lbs wheat
1 lb Diakon Radish
3 lbs Commander Chicory
6 lbs Burdaro Red Clover
6 lbs ladino clover
25 lbs oats
25 lbs wheat
1 lb Diakon Radish
dogghr
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Depends if you allowing combos. For a single pic then WC gives more for dollar and longevity w minimal maintenance than anything else.
Now if I can mix then give me my perennial WC/chicory year round. Then in late Aug when it has worn a bit thin, overseed w WR,oats,DER,and turnips . Sit back and repeat next fall. Jst describes my main plot.
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Now if I can mix then give me my perennial WC/chicory year round. Then in late Aug when it has worn a bit thin, overseed w WR,oats,DER,and turnips . Sit back and repeat next fall. Jst describes my main plot.
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Native,when do you plant this mix that the oats and wheat don't get to tall but your clover will still germinate.
g squared 23
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RR Ag beans. If you'd allow a combination, then I'd overseed with winter rye. Nothing makes a better plot November-January, ESPECIALLY if we actually get any snow.
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split toe
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Where did you buy commander chicory?
Native Hunter
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The grains are considered a nurse crop. You want them to dominate the first fall. You want the Deer hammering them more than the other stuff. Then the next spring the other species come on stronger. September 1 in my area is a good time to plant.
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Native Hunter
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I can’t always find it so I use other varieties when that happens. The one that WI sells is as good as Commander and not really that expensive for BOB seed when you consider how little you need in a mix. I haven't looked for a long time, but I think Tecomate did have chicory for sale that was a mix of Commander and another improved variety. Just make sure to use one of the well known forage varieties of chicory. There is a lot of difference in the palatibility of these and run of the mill chicory.
The same goes for the the medium red clover. Sometimes you can find Barduro and sometimes you can't. I prefer it but there are some other improved varieties that work just as well. In fact, deer will eat run of the mill red clover just as well as they will the improved varieties, but the improved varieties will last longer. So if you want to plant just feed store medium red clover, that is fine. You can always do some overseeding a couple of years down the road. I've done that and have a plot that needs some red added right now. Will do that this fall.
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After almost forty years of planting food plots, I am going towards simple. I have planted all kinds of mixes and with the amount of acreage I now plant, and advancing in years, I decided a couple years ago I needed something more simple than planting five kinds of seed that I would have a difficult time managing with simple herbicide. I plant the wheat durana mix in the fall and come back the next year and direct seed wheat into the durana plot. I do plant a couple larger eagle seed bean plots in the summer - and the deer spend about as much time in the clover as they do the beans. I am fortunate that no one else in the area plants a food plot - so I dont have to worry about competing with the neighbor’s food plots. All the different mixes I have tried have not pulled anymore deer than a simple wheat and durana plot. I have planted all kinds of clover - and on MOST of my ground - durana works best.
suburbhunter
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Awn-less wheat, arrow leaf clover, crimson clover
Elkaddict
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Clearly not the answer the OP intended, but if I could only creat one “food source” every year, it would be substantial hinge cuts done so as to keep tons of browse in reach of deer. If disallowed, I’d probably do a rutabaga/Winfred brassica planting planted late June. Provides tons of food from late summer to early spring. Deer around here naturally have ample eats from spring through acorn drop. Thigh high brassicas with lots of large bulbs will provide food in deep snows until compaction makes digging impossible. They’ll then live off of browse until the snow conditions change.
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