Stocker Steve
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I plan to seed this cover crop mix in about a week. Any tips on maximizing the fall grazing produced?
5S Cattle":3araeh78 said:I mix turnips in with my wildlife food plots for their soil building properties but never thought about them for cattle. Deer won't eat them until after a good frost, and then they're definitely not preferred. What is the nutritional value?
5S Cattle":2tzoxzge said:I mix turnips in with my wildlife food plots for their soil building properties but never thought about them for cattle. Deer won't eat them until after a good frost, and then they're definitely not preferred. What is the nutritional value?
pdfangus":8qakljdg said:I like to add the rape because it is nearly as deep rooted as the tillage radish and does not winter kill like the radish does...
True Grit Farms":2mjlb94x said:5S Cattle":2mjlb94x said:I mix turnips in with my wildlife food plots for their soil building properties but never thought about them for cattle. Deer won't eat them until after a good frost, and then they're definitely not preferred. What is the nutritional value?
Your results and mine differ greatly. Turnips grow best in the lower spots around here.
5S Cattle":tms166hi said:True Grit Farms":tms166hi said:5S Cattle":tms166hi said:I mix turnips in with my wildlife food plots for their soil building properties but never thought about them for cattle. Deer won't eat them until after a good frost, and then they're definitely not preferred. What is the nutritional value?
Your results and mine differ greatly. Turnips grow best in the lower spots around here.
theres one of my food plots from December 9th last year. Was a mix of Austrian winter peas, wheat, elbon rye, crimson clover, chicory, turnips, rape and radishes. Deer keep everything but the turnips and rape grazed down. Still can't tell if the deer, or the hogs are the ones eating the turnips really
snoopdog":1vf3etxu said:How are you planting the turnips ? We've planted them in the past, broadcast by hand, but never got a good thick stand.
They haven't figured out what they are yet. Or they have and they don't like them. I'm not sure but they don't mess with them much. Now when the wheat and rye heads out, watch out, they'll decimate a plot in a night.pdfangus":1vmlyzrv said:5S Cattle":1vmlyzrv said:True Grit Farms":1vmlyzrv said:Your results and mine differ greatly. Turnips grow best in the lower spots around here.
theres one of my food plots from December 9th last year. Was a mix of Austrian winter peas, wheat, elbon rye, crimson clover, chicory, turnips, rape and radishes. Deer keep everything but the turnips and rape grazed down. Still can't tell if the deer, or the hogs are the ones eating the turnips really
nice looking cover....
good variety....
wouldn't the hogs tear up the whole plot rooting for turnips? We are lucky not to yet have them in our area...
but I have been around enough tame hogs to know that there ain't much they cant tear up...