Experimenting with different food plots on our family property in the western part of Wise County in northern Texas. We have tried several different plots. So far red clover seems to take pretty well. Wheat & Rye dont seem to do well at all.

Anyone living in my neck of the woods had any luck with anything else.

All opinions welcome...

did you get a soil sample and lime and fertilze as necessary?

Call Turner Seed Co. in Breckenridge and ask their advise. You would be best served to get a soil sample also. Grazing pressure on your wheat and rye could be an issue also.

Yeah, We limed the soil as needed. I have had good and bad wheat and rye plots in the past. and of course, success or failure of a type of plot cannot be gauged on this past summer considering the conditions.

We did it right. Been doing it that way for years.

I guess what I was trying to ask, is what other types of forge have people in my area planted. Just trying to think outside the box.

Thanks for the hint on Turner Seed Company also.

Vetch usually does good, deer and turkey love it.

How large are the plots? What is deer density for the area? Any cattle grazing the plots? Average annual rainfall?

Summer or winter plots?

Alafafa!

I usually just plant wheat in Montague County. I like to plant turnips over that but it's not always easy to get them at the time you have moisture. However, since turnips a larger leaf, it does take continuing moisture. You can't bet on that.

Do a soil survey and send it to A & M. They will tell you what the soil needs. I would neither lime nor fertilize unless the ground needed it. Pine tree areas generally need lime but oak areas usually don't. Deer will, in my experience, come to fertilized cereal grains quicker.

I quit fertilizing years ago to keep from ruining the soil. Several of my neighbors fertilize heavily for cattle. However, now they can grow almost nothing without it.

The main things I have seen about food plots for deer are. If it is small nothing will get a chance to grow. If other animals can get to it nothing will grow. If it don't rain at the right times nothing will grow.