Any of you guys been running food plots up here in the Panhandle? I have fiddled around with it for several years on a small scale but am going to start getting more serious about it this year. Gonna start using rye/buckwheat in combination with herbicides to start building my soil (sand) and reduce my weed seed bank so that I can step it up in a couple years to better forage species. I am sending my soil samples off today to see what I am starting out with. I have had some pretty good luck with chicory, seems to stand the summer drought and grazing pressure well, and for me has been utilized pretty heavily during the summer stress period on the small test plots I have run.
What planting have any of you had success with up here? I am especially interested in the winter stress period from say Dec through March or so. I plan on running mixes for the most part, and a combination of annuals and perinnials. I have 120 acres of irrigated alfalfa right next to me so summer stress period is not very critical. Mainly I want an attractive species for late summer/fall for hunting, but then some good species for winter stress period to carry the deer untill spring greenup.
What planting have any of you had success with up here? I am especially interested in the winter stress period from say Dec through March or so. I plan on running mixes for the most part, and a combination of annuals and perinnials. I have 120 acres of irrigated alfalfa right next to me so summer stress period is not very critical. Mainly I want an attractive species for late summer/fall for hunting, but then some good species for winter stress period to carry the deer untill spring greenup.
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