Sugar Beets for Food Plots and Grazing: What Works and What Doesn't

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0:16 What we've got here is sugar beet and of

0:18 Of course this is the same crop that is used to produce table sugar but it also

0:24 Has some utility as a cover crop now one of the drawbacks of sugar beets is that.

0:30 They just are, don't have a lot of seedling bigger. They're not very.

0:36 Competitive against weeds they tend to get overshadowed in a mix where they.

0:42 Really show up well is in a monoculture forward some other slow growing plants.

0:57 Bees too salty for any other plant.

1:02 Pretty much they also have a

1:07 Nice tap root that can open up holes allow some better drainage if you're.

1:11 Trying to remain in a salty soil or a soda coil the other benefit that sugar.

1:19 Beets really have, of course, highly palatable grazing plant, but for deer food plots, this is probably the single most powerful of the plants there is. Deer love sugar beets, and we know people that have planted seven acre food plots of sugar beets and the deer have come in and annihilated the entire loss. Very, very palatable planted deer, and that's really honestly where we sell most our sugar beets is for people who want highly attractive.