Disking the deer fields

[denoginnizer]

Just fixin to start disking the deer fields , today. I am thinking of planting ryegrass, wheat and clover. What do you like to plant in yours? What is the perfect size/shape deer field?

 

[Nowland Farms]

I planted the deer fields this past Saturday. We planted Saturday morning and rec'd about 1" of rain over the next 24 hours.

When I went to the feed store to buy my usual sacks of feed wheat, I was told that they would no longer be able to sell feed wheat because there was so many folks planting it which was against the guidelines set out by the seed companies. Apparently the seed companies we cracking down and taking several local feed/seed store to court about this practice. I ended up buying a Fall Deer mixture whis was 48% wheat, 42% oats, 5% Ryegrass, 3% Crimson Clover. I hate dto do this but it's what I get for waiting till the moring of to purchase the seed.

I still have two more food plots to plant this weekend.

 

[Angus Guy]

A deer field around here is one that has corn or soybeans or hay or wheat or anything else we grow for money. Dang things can do alot of damage to the crops.

 

[Jogeephus]

We mix rye and oats together, deer seem to like oats better but it is not very cold tolerant.IMO My favorite is ryegrass and crimson clover mixture.

I like to see deer more than I like to shoot them, so I like big plots - at least 200 yards deep and 100 feet wide.

 

[Texas Gal]

NF,please enlighten me. What "guidelines set out by the seed companies"? I always thought the more seed they sold the happier seed companies would be.

 

[sidney411]

I was wondering the same thing.

 

[Nowland Farms]

Ok heres the deal. I just called the feed mill to clarify what I was being told.

Because the seed companies charge extra for "Seed Grade" wheat, and the fact that a lot of hunters have been planting "Feed Grade" wheat for food plots, the seed companies went to the Alabama Dept of Agriculture and asked them to enfore laws which make sure that the feed/seed stores do not sell wheat feed to be planted. My local store said that the AL Dept Agriculture Inspectors were telling them that they were going to have to keep a list of customers who bought feed grade wheat, how much, and what type of animals they were feeding. My local store made a decision not to sell the feed wheat so they wouldn't have to track the Customer info.

What the store did say was that if they mixed another type of seed with the feed wheat it could be sold as a fall deer mix.

Not sure what the other stores around here or in the state will do.

Sounds like Big Brother but I guess the Seed compaines are trying to protect their pantents on the seed......

In Alabama of all places, go figure.

 

[Crowderfarms]

All Feed Wheat is, when tested it did'nt make the germination test.

I've never asked anyone if they're planting Wheat or feeding it-The customer is laying down his/her $$. That IMHO, makes it no ones business what the cutomer does with it.Besides, why would anyone buy Wheat to try and grow, that states, clearly on the tag, "Variety Unknown" for commercial production purposes? I'd just buy it and keep my mouth shut.

 

[milesvb]

My deer patch is a rectangle about 3 acres in size. On the north end I store round bales and make a space in the front row to hunt out of when there's a south wind. When a norther blows I hunt out of a window of a run down sharecropper's bungalow that sits on the south end. It has brush and trees to some extent around all sides. I usually plant oats and winter peas. Wheat hasn't worked very well.

 

[mitchwi]

A deer field around here is one that has corn or soybeans or hay or wheat or anything else we grow for money. Dang things can do alot of damage to the crops.

...deer field... turkey field.... you said a mouthful!

 

[sidney411]

So basically the seed companies just want to force you to pay more money for the same product. Sounds about right. The feed store guys tell us we should buy the feed oats because they are the same as the seed oats anyway.

 

[backhoeboogie]

Seed companies have to contend with PLS regulations. So the playing field is not level.

Get my fall and spring deer mixes from Turner Seed Company. Along with wheat, oats, rye, you also get turnips, peas, russain peas, russain wheat and all kinds of other mixes. Good stuff. You plant that and the deer stay out of the normal wheat and oat fields.