Food Plot Suggestions Welcomed

As wiswalleyenut had mentioned with the coming of Spring as fields quickly turn from brown to green I’m already thinking about what can I do now to be ready for Fall hunting!

With our current farm crops we will already have over 120 acres of alfalfa spread across 3 fields and ~30 acres of corn that will be harvested in Late October/Early November. In addition I will be adding multiple mineral licks in the coming weeks, but I’ve been thinking about what other improvements I could add to supplement to our current farm crops.

One idea that I’ve been kicking around would be to add a few strips along the edges of the fields with other crops such as soybeens or even small patches of rape and/or turnips to give deer additional late season options.

With the wealth of knowledge on this site I’m extremely curious to hear what some of you would reccomend in addition to the alfalfa and corn. Being that I do have access to a full compliment of farm equipment I’m also more than willing do some experimenting and provide updates over the summer.

Thanks in advance for any input!
Will (aka Malmo Mafioso)

I plan to try some turnips this year for the first time because of their late season attraction. This would give you something after the corn is off, and alfalfa has gone dormant. May be worth a try.

Nut

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As wiswalleyenut had mentioned with the coming of Spring as fields quickly turn from brown to green I’m already thinking about what can I do now to be ready for Fall hunting!

With our current farm crops we will already have over 120 acres of alfalfa spread across 3 fields and ~30 acres of corn that will be harvested in Late October/Early November. In addition I will be adding multiple mineral licks in the coming weeks, but I’ve been thinking about what other improvements I could add to supplement to our current farm crops.

One idea that I’ve been kicking around would be to add a few strips along the edges of the fields with other crops such as soybeens or even small patches of rape and/or turnips to give deer additional late season options.

With the wealth of knowledge on this site I’m extremely curious to hear what some of you would reccomend in addition to the alfalfa and corn. Being that I do have access to a full compliment of farm equipment I’m also more than willing do some experimenting and provide updates over the summer.

Thanks in advance for any input!
Will (aka Malmo Mafioso)

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If you have enough area? soybeans would be a great late season choice. most of the time these small areas of beans will be decimated by the deer long before fall I like the idea of a turnip, rape and radish mix for this situation Good luck on whatever you decide

I like your idea of utilizing edges of fields for plots. We have been doing this, with different goals, for several years. They are often low yielding area for conventional crops due to browsing pressure and competition with the trees. We plant clover on our field/crop edges as they are also our easement/driveways to larger plots. I have had good success, however, planting non-conventional crop varieties against trees and field edges. If it were my land I would plant a mix, or several mixes, that utilize some combination of chicory, turnips, radishes, rapeseed, and kale. If you want late season (end of bow season) I would doe turnips, radishes, and chicory. If you want an all purpose bow season I would do chircory, rapeseed, kale. All 5 of these get pounded during bow season here in SWMN. Chicory has the longest duration of use for me, with kale and rapeseed seeing earlier/mid bow season use, and radishes/turnip seeing mid/late bow season use. I have had exceptional deer usage of all these, and also great results planting against trees/brush. Also, chicory is a biennial and will re-grow in the spring for added early season nutrition. Mine is already around 5 inches tall and showing signs of browsing. Good luck! And hope this helped in some way