There is more then a foot of snow on the food plots by December and January where I live (across the river from the UP of Michigan). Even late November can see over a foot of snow on the food plot. The deer really only have October and the first couple of weeks of November where they can use the food produced in the plot. I tried planting late July last year and the August drought did not allow much to grow. This year I plan to plant in late May or early June. Will change it up on a few plots to see what works best in my area.
They really dont hit em down south no matter what you do!! It never gets cold enough for the sugars to form anyway! Especially down here in middle GA. Mixed, stand alone, perfect soil..... they just dont want them! Lush plots no deer! The wheat and oats get hammered!
Habitat is KEY to everything u teach. You share a great passion for what truly is effective and beneficial to many types of wildlife improvements. Keep up your great work Jeff!
Jeff breaks it down so simple for everyone of us. If you have some amount of time and desire to get better bucks and to improve a deer heard and your property. You should find ways to invest. He gives you the answers just have to implement them into your land.
Been rotating "biologic" brand brassica's in the southern tier of NY on & off for the past 15 years. I don't plant brassicas back to back seasons, it breaks up the soil & makes it muddy when wet- even smells like rotten cabbage in the spring. The deer hit it usually very late in the season, & it's where I find shed antlers in the springtime. They definitely eat the heck out of it. Thanks for the tip on DER, I never realized or thought to look at that before.
Great video Jeff, love how detailed these videos are, buckwheat goes down in a week, can’t wait to use your blend from north woods on half of our plots, brassicas on the other, even through I harvested a good doe on that plot last year, the plot itself was a failure.... rye grass 😡.. no till all the way this year with quality seed from Mr. Komp. Switchgrass also planted and even better access routes.... this channel is by far the best for us small parcel owners. I love nature and the outdoors, this channel has pushed the passion for whitetail, management and hunting into hyperdrive. Can’t thank you enough.
I've been on information overload watching hours of your videos Jeff, and can't thank you enough for the quality information. I've recently acquired a small 5 acre plot in southeast wisconsin and have 1/2 an acre set aside for a food plot. My plan was to do half in brassica blend and 1/2 winter rye. Then follow up in September and October with more winter rye. Just wondering if I should stick with that, or go another route? Again thank you for all of the quality, no bs content.
I've planted brassicas in a heavy deer populated area and just like you said, they hit them as soon as they popped up. I might try planting an area again this year and try to fense off the area until late Oct.
Planted 2 acres of brassicas last August and the deer destroyed it all fall and winter. Had our best season ever in terms of mature bucks. In April the abundant turnip bulbs that were left in the ground actually re-germinated green tops, and the deer went right back to eating them.
Brassicas are great but they have a low attraction in my area. I mostly plant them for a soil conditioner. Try to have a controllable, highly digestible clover like red clover in al of your plots for high attraction and free nitrogen for next planting season.
Great vid Jeff👍 We are going with a Brassica blend this year but I know what blends to steer clear of now and the best time to plant! We had some rape and turnips on our micro plot this past year and the deer loved it. It stayed strong through December to January in Georgia👍
Jeff Thanks for all your information over the years! I planted brassicas this year 12 sept 20. A month later ready to put some urea down waiting for a rain tomorrow. Central east Mississippi. Where can I send a photo.
7 weeks but that's not really my question. It's when it's the best time to plant the brassicas when I am basically next to different zones. Or anywhere in the middle or southern states.
How far south are you? If I don’t get brassicas in by 8/20ish at latest (last year put in some 9/5 and got very small plants), prefer 8/5 range depending on rain, then they’re pretty much wasted. I’m just west of Marais de Cygne, north of Mound City.
Love your videos Jeff. Been a big fan of your knowledge for years. I'm in the hills of north Arkansas and soil is clay and rock. Have had good luck with clover, chicory, and buckwheat. Any other suggestions for me? Deer mow off my buckwheat before it gets 6 inches tall. I throw it in a few weeks before I start hunting and it really attracts them but have to keep seeding because they eat it so fast.
im in eastern Ontario Canada, i have planted brassica mixes with great success, however i have never seen a deer dig up and eat a turnip. on my plot or anyone else's in the area.
Jeff, I hunt in southeast Texas. Almost all land is owned by timber companies in this area. We have a hunting club of 6,400 acres. We can only plant in limited areas. I've put out lime earlier this year. I'm going to try food plots this year. I'm wanting to do brassicas and arrow leaf clover. We won't see frost until possibly November. When should I plant?
So I've got a 1.5 acre track that deer cross over, herd might be 15 to 25 max around 5000 acres of swamp/bottom land. I typically see , camera wise, 5 to 7 at a time, thus my plot would only be 0.25 acre with the rest fallow. I often wonder what food plot planting scenario would offer the deer to "pause" before crossing over to a sugar cane field to return to swamp woods. The travel corridor travel consists woods, fallow fields, my plot, sugar cane, back into woods.
Third time I've planted turnips,nothing has touched them? Are turnips the wrong brassica? The hogs don't even touch them. I'm going to look for a good turnip recipe and eat them myself. I'm in middle Georgia. They grow awesome nice big turnips.just nothing eats them here. On the other hand the deer hit alfalfa hard!!! We start hunting second Saturday in September.
Hi Mike...turnips are the least desirable. Forage turnip is good, forage rape, radish...always use a quality deer mix and follow the complimentary planting guidelines in this video. Really hope that they help!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 dang,I've been planting the wrong plant,it is may 28 and my turnips are between golf ball and hardball sizes. What I did this year is plant a 18 to 20 inch border of turnips around my alfalfa fields. I put the plot saver system around my plots to give things a chance to get established,if I don't the deer, hogs and rabbits now everything down to dirt. Going to wait untill the alfalfa is at least knee deep before I drop the plotsaver tape? Sure would like to have you come out for a day?
Hey Jeff I’ll be spreading the buckwheat probably weekend of June 5th and per your advice 1qt glyphosate really amped cause the strategy you put fourth last season seems to be coming together thank you so much for your expertise and most of all friendship
Awesome info Jeff. Perfect timing too. I’m using your techniques in the big woods of northern Minnesota. Clay is so hard to work with. All the best and have a great day!
Great video Jeff. But as far as the timing with buckwheat. If your target planting is 7 weeks and you plant your brassicas then. Then wait 4 weeks to plant a fall mix( oats ,peas,beans) , wouldn't the buckwheat be too tall by then. ? Does the buckwheat need to be planted at different times? Thanks keep up the great work.
Jeff do you or have you ever planted chestnut trees, im just learning about the devastation that came upon them here in the country back in the ninties. What do you think about them.
I’ve started planting multiple chestnut trees as well as northern varieties of pecan and hazelnut. These are very long term solutions to wildlife habitat but I really enjoy creating something different in my area that offers more than huge agricultural fields that offer nothing once harvested.
ITs pretty obvious you primarily speak about northern areas (above mason dixen line). Do you recommend anyone to follow that primarily covers the south? My frost date isnt until mid november and its not uncommon to have green growth through winter because during the day it may be 60-80 degrees in December and January.
Watched several of your videos on food plots whitetail shift my only problem is I live in southern Missouri just next to the Arkansas line we dont get much fall rain until October what is something I could plant to do well in the fall and when should I plant
I planted soybeans this spring and I was wondering if I could spread brassicas over the top when they start to turn yellow to double my food plot acreage. Would this work ?
Hey Jeff great video. I only have one question you said you can mix beans and peas with the Braska but you would have to drill or cover them up does the buckwheat counts as covering them up? I don’t have a drill yet but I was really hoping to add beans and peas to my mix
Jeff I know u are a busy man. I bought the north woods sweet feast of brassicas. I live in lumberton NC about a hour and half from the coast and plan on doing a fall plot this year. What month would u recommend me planting the brassicas.Thanks for any input
Here in Nebraska, 92% of the state is agriculture or ranches, and 3.2% wooded. With a density of 5-ish deer per square mile. So....yeah. low pop, high ag, no brassica for us :(
Jeff, great comments. One questions, do we plant the peas and beans into the brassica at the same time we plant the brassica? Getting ready to plant the buckwheat this week.
Great video, Jeff, thanks for the info. Maybe I missed this in the video, but how would you compare adding clover as a complimentary seed as opposed to seeding winter rye as described in the ultimate no-till plan? Is one better than the other for spring green-up?
I am in the bottomslands of Arkansas. I would like to establish a fall food plot. The summer forage is plentiful down here but in my area there is no ag so they lack a nutrient dense food source other then acorns in the fall. What are some tips to establish a good plot to deer that have never seen a plot
Jeff, I've watched a ton of videos and I'm confused about the clover. When and how do you plant it and when is it consumed by the deer. Does it fit into the buckwheat strategy?
Jeff, I'm looking to plant an acre for this fall. Was planning on 1/2 the plot to be the sweet feast brassica blend, planted early August, and the other plot to be a mix of tillage radish (early August), oats (early August), and rye (early-late Sept) based on an older post you had on your WHS blog. After watching this video, seems like I shouldn't be planting the oats and rye in the same half of the plot as the tillage radish. Thoughts?
For a very small plot I would use either layering rye, or the fall mix of beans peas and oats followed by a heavy broadcasting of 200#s of rye about a month later.
I just went through your playlist looking for anything on what to plant for different soil types, moisture, and sun exposure but couldn't find anything. Do you have any suggestions which video has that or is it scattered in throughout multiple ones? Or is it even that critical?
I was thinking about broadcasting brassicas into the soybean plot I just drilled into my 1.5 acre annual food plot as soon as they turned yellow but it sounds like that will be to late from your video. Is there something else you would recommend then?
I don't add clover anymore just because it isn't a good food plot in most areas of the country, but when I did in the past, you want to make sure that you add the FULL amount of clover to the mix with the full amount of brassica. They do not take from one another...very good compliment to each other.
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 cool thanks for the help we dont nomaly get a first till right around end of November first of December here in NC, and the clover anomaly doesn't die..my first foodplot hoping for a great season this year only 3 months away!!!
Love this video Jeff, I only have one small half acres plot. You talked about planting this along side other types of early season seeds, would splitting my half acre plot part early season food and part brassica make sense?
