What Percentage of My Food Plot Acres are in Grains vs Greens | Dream Farm w/ Bill Winke 

I know it's off topic but I was just watching one of your hunts from 2006 where you killed a heavy tall narrow monster buck and took the kids out after dark to recover it, and was reminded of how great a gentleman and sportsman and ambassador for hunting that you are and have always been. Thank you so much for your commitment to being a class act in the hunting industry. Good luck this season Bill!

I'm still working on building the soil on my WV mountain property, so I've been using a summer and fall soil builder blend. The summer blend is about 40 percent sorghum, and I can say the deer absolutely love it. It's not the reason I plant it, it's a great way to add organic matter to the soil as their root mass is very large, but just an added benefit. As far as winter rye, with the late green up at my elevation, the deer just hammer it early spring as it's the only green available when all else is still brown. Even after the soil is built up, I will continue to add rye to my plots to give the herd just what they need coming out of winter.

Great advice! I have about 14 acres of corn/beans, 2 1/2 acres of clove/chicory and 2 acres of brassicas and all the browse and acorns the deer have all they need. Great video as always! Have a great Memorial Day week end🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

It is our annual controversy lol, we did alternate rows of corn and beans but a large portion in the middle just soy beans, the sorghum as a boundry to plots , these videos help , so thanks for sharing your wisdom , i constantly tell my brother bill winke says ?? He just stares at me lol

Here in SE Kansas, in a normal year, the corn is harvested in August. Most of the scattered corn sprouts after the first rain on it. So, by late season it's long gone. I'm sure a corn plot would work down here, but it's gonna have to be a BIG plot to have anything left by mid-late December. On the other hand, wheat or rye, which is MUCH cheaper to plant, will draw deer in like crazy. It's not uncommon to see huge numbers of deer on wheat fields in the late season, nothing compares in drawing potential. This is the same reason wheat fields are the best hotspots for sheds a couple months later. Beans can be a big draw when it comes to plots, but once again, it's gonna have to be BIG to have anything left by late season.

A spring planted Whitetail Institute Oats Plus under seeded by a fast growing annual clover makes a fabulous early to mid season plot. You can also use perennial clovers to establish a clover plot. Only down side that I have found so far is that it also attracts bears as they love both the clover and the oats. An added bonus is the turkeys also love both of these. My spring turkey this year was full of leftover oats and clover.

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Bill up until 3 years ago I would’ve argued that soybeans in the summer are the preferred food choice. Not anymore. In the summer of 2021, I had high hopes of seeing good bucks in a 40 acre bean field. This field was in a rotation of corn and beans every other year. I saw a few does, and some small bucks all during the summer. I could not figure out where all the deer we’re at. The farmer said he had turned an old cornfield into a new hay field using red and white clover along with alfalfa. It was only about a 10 acre field but I think every deer in the county was in it the first time I checked it out. This field is tucked back in against a block of timber and surrounded by a fence row with trees and a small creek lined with trees. Also with no roads anywhere close. Very secluded. There were so many deer in the field and a lot of them came out right at last light that I couldn’t even keep track of them all. Half of them were bucks. That whole summer you so very few deer in the bean field in that surrounding area. Thx for the video Dan

One of my favorite tactics is to broadcast my greens into standing beans late summer. As the beans drop there leaves you have a lush carpet of greens in your standing soybeans. Works amazing. Winter wheat, winter rye, brassicas etc

great advice !! hard to figure out why the deer didn't really hit the corn last season even here in georgia didn't eat the corn as much as in the past !!

I carry a bottle of absobine jr around with me it has a roll on spunge top. Very effective for gnats and sandflies. You can use it for your sore muscles too! 😄

Would really like to try out sorghum one of these years for some late season grains

Here in central ky most of our untilled ground naturally grows white and red clover,

As the various planting times come into season would you cover sorghum planting process. I’ve never planted it as a food source and you’ve got me interested? Thank you

@billwinke when do you plant sorghum in Midwest? I’m in SE MN so just an hour north of you. Also will broadcasting it work vs drilling it?

As with most things in life, variables set the equation... adaptability - the unspoken universal law - dismiss it or embrace at your own peril lol!!! Appreciate the insights here Bill.

Hey Bill, where do acorns fall into the deer's preference/nutrition? We have lot's of water and white oaks in Alabama, and deer LOVE white oak acorns here.

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Also when planting sorghum what is the best time of the year to plant it? I'm just across the river from you in Wisconsin

If you had a 1/4 acre opening in the woods next to grain field could you plant a brassica there as a transitional food plot?

Hey Bill alittle off subject but me and my family are going to be on vacation next week. Going to swing through Iowa a couple days in southeast to check out the hype. Any suggestions to check out?

The beans can be both greens and grain, my #1 choice. Alfalfa/ clover second.

How do the deer like the sorghum in the winter?

You didn't discuss fruit trees as part of your "food plot" strategy. Was that by design. Do you consider that something totally different? Just curious since I've incorporated those into my strategy. Thanks.

How are your apples doing? They set fruit?

I plant my green grains in August, I don’t plant summer food.

Bill i am 42yo and i have been watching ur shows since i was a kid and watching now i can only hope i am half as good at trying to do the stuff u do. Plots, takin trophies, the whole nine yards. U are a great inspiration. I have a question for my going on now three yr trial plot. I only have 10acres of my own property with mainly timber/ creek and i have 1/2 acres i have put into beans. Tried corn, pearl millet and beans this summer and the millet came up great beans were short but think choked out. I have couple bags of boss buffet, which is a blend of wheat,oats, cow peas, turnips, and a couple other fall plant that id like to plant for fall. Should i just broadcast it into what i have planted or mow a bit of it down and then plant it. And when should i put it in the ground? I am in North Central Oklahoma. Any advice id greatly appreciate sir.