anybody plant any spring food plots? Or anybody got some nice trail cam pics? got a family farm down by la cygne ks that im going to plant a small fall food plot at in late august. not sure what but thinking clover, rye, or wheat....
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My fall plots will go in after august 20. Ill plant crimson clover and oats and. A half rate of ladino. february Ill overseed the rest of the ladino. Currently the new plots are buckwheat that ill tear up aug 20
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Got any pictures??? sounds nice!
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I put in a new hay/oats field this spring. Late in the summer I'm going to drop in an acre of deep turnips and other short growth plot treats. Not putting any trail cams in for a while, probably August.
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The weather has kept me busy with real work on the good days, but I have managed to squeeze a few plots in.




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wow that looks amazing. What did you plant or are you just getting ready for fall planting? i might shoot you some pm's and ask you some questions. im about to try and do my first small, most likely really shitty fall food plot in a month or 2 ha
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That one went to forage beans about a month ago and will get turnips and a little Cereal Rye interseeded into them in the next week or two.
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do you cut the forage beans after they get to a certain height? that acts as a cover crop for the turnips and rye?
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That plot sees very heavy pressure so I just let them go. Normally, I mix forage beans and regular beans together but I was in a hurry and didn't have time. The 30" rows give the turnips and rye a little room to get started before the leaves start to drop off the beans.

In a perfect world they graze the beans all summer and clean up most of the pods around the time a couple good frosts have hit to turn the turnip tops sweet. They normally graze the tops until they're in the ground and the Rye and turnip bulbs give them something to pull through the winter with. Wheat works well too, but Cereal Rye is more winter hardy and holds it's green throughout the winter better than wheat does.
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Cereal Rye is the devil in wheat country.
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Rye grass is more of the devil here.

Cereal Rye did pop up in quite a few of the wheat fields this year, but there isn't really enough wheat grown here for anyone to pay much attention to it.
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I do but im on my way to Salmon Fish in British Columbia and its a suck to post from phone. Ill try next week. Salmon fishing at Nanook Lodge. Check web site
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I don't get enough rain to grow rye grass. :-).

In any case, remind me never to get seed wheat from your part of the world. Like ever.

Where do you get your plot seed? I'd recommend Greencover seed. It's more for cover crops, but they'll run small batches of whatever you want. Keith Berns runs it and has been really good to me over the years.

If you don't know them, check them out. They are good people.
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As long as we buy "certified" wheat and spread the fertilizer with our own spreader we never have any rye show up. It's when we buy their "whatever the fuck they bagged" and have the coop spread the fertilizer that the rye appears.

I've tried to buy seed from Green Cover a couple times but, other than a couple bags of Tillage Radish, he's always been just a little higher than I can source the seed locally for or through the few nrcs guys who dabble in growing cover crop seed. He treated the small Tillage Radish deals like I was buying a large amount of seed so that alone will get him more business in the future.

I did let ~10 acres of rye go to grain for the first time and had a neighbor cut it. I asked him three times if he wanted me to clean his machine out right, but he acted like it was no big deal. I'll gurantee you he'll drag some rye into some bean fields going to wheat this fall. :-)
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youve got 1-2 acres to grow a food plot to attract whatever you want. deer, turkey, dove, small game. what do u plant and when
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