whats your favorite food plot seed?

[luvn-luvnlife]

Its that time of the year to start planning food plots for the upcoming year. What has everyone planted with good success? Last year we planted 1 acre of turnips, the deer were into them right off the get go. They were browsing the greens until right before rifle season when it froze, then they ate the plot totally gone. We never did hunt that plot but we did have good sucess with the turnips.   

[buckrub]

   beer nuts  ::)

[Mayfly]

Its good to keep the deer on your property. Do you have any other plots besides the turnips? Maybe consider doing the turnips and then adding an acre of something that they will eat through the winter? Don't know much about planting and whats out there but when I get the chance I will take full advantage of it.

Where is Bowhunter73?? I know he has been planting for a couple years now.

[ChrisWallace]

Fridgid Forage and Secret Spot is some of the best stuff Ive used.

[Bufflehead]

I work a fall festival deal with a place that grows pumpkins, squash and gourd's. They give hay rides and other activities for kids and grown ups. They have a corn maze, Etc

 The deer go absolutely nuts for the pumpkins.

 They even have people comming there to buy pumpkins by the truck load to feed the deer.

 The deer bust the pumpkins while they are still in the field and eat away

 They also grow strawberries and the deer are after them..so they plant strips of Winter Wheat and Winter Rye, that comes up green late in the year between the strawberry patches. The deer love that fresh green's when everything else has went brown and or dead in the fall. If the snow isn't too deep. The deer will come out and dig for the green Wheat and Rye

 Pumpkins, Winter Wheat and Winter Rye work well, believe me..the fields look like we had deer penned up in them with the 1000s of tracks as well as seeing them in there everyday.

 Good Luck

[bowhunter73]

 Â A friend of mine had a connection with a company in Wisconsin that I used to get seed mix from, but i can not remember there name. I think it was a mix of turnips,conolla(spelling?0,white clover, And one other thing? the deer loved the turnips in the summer then with the first frost the conolla turns sweet and they hit that.

 Â Last year I went cheap basic white clover from the feed mill BIG mistake. All of the deer that where tearing up the dinner table two years in a row. left when i planted the cheap clover along with that it didn't grow that good either.
 I thought all of the big name advertisers said there seed was designed just for deer. You know palatable,protein content, growth rate, and a good easy to farm mix was just a load of dung. To get top $ now That I believe them I have lost 3 years of plots because I tried to save some money.
 I cant promote any one brand but I too have read and heard good things about Fridgid Forage,Bio logic, And I'm looking into Antler King

 This year I'm planting my place and a friends place I think I might try Bio at one and King at the other. Along with taking good notes so i can look back on it the following year, as my memory is fading fast

[Mayfly]

Bowhunter73....this seems like a lot of work and money. I think you might need to recruit someone to split the load.......

I'll shoot your does and watch the big boys grow into monsters

[bowhunter73]

 The deer go absolutely nuts for the pumpkins.

 They even have people comming there to buy pumpkins by the truck load to feed the deer.

 

 I am not positive but if you are just placing the pumpkins there to be eaten its baiting. If you are growing them it's a food plot. just something to think about?????

[bowhunter73]

Bowhunter73....this seems like a lot of work and money. I think you might need to recruit someone to split the load.......

I'll shoot your does and watch the big boys grow into monsters

I will even pay for the gas you cant beat that!

[Bufflehead]

 The deer go absolutely nuts for the pumpkins.

 They even have people comming there to buy pumpkins by the truck load to feed the deer.

 

   I am not positive but if you are just placing the pumpkins there to be eaten its baiting. If you are growing them it's a food plot. just something to think about?????

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 I know that and you know that but these people still come and buy them by the truck load to feed the deer. Heck, look at the amount of deer feed being purchased across the state. I have seen whole pallets of feed going up the road a day or two before deer season, with orange clothing and hunting gear visable through the windows of the truck. A... ATV or two being pulled behind the truck. What do you think they are doing with all that grain? Like we don't know

 I don't condone what they are doing but just like any feed mill. They will sell as much grain to you as you want, even when they know you are hunting over it and not give a rip. It's not their place to tell you what you can or can not do. You want to break the law and get in trouble...thats those peoples own problem

[Mayfly]

Not to get too far off topic here but I read an article a couple years(?) ago about the baiting problem in Mn. They said it was huge and that the DNR doesn't have the resources to get everyone obviously. They talked about flying a plane over head and they could see in some areas piles and piles of corn etc.....Wish I remember where I heard this from? Wasnlt there a CO that is retired and wrote a book?? Maybe it was in there?

Anyways.