Warm Season Deer Mix: Design and Planting Strategy

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0:15 But I'm standing in front of here now is our summer annual deer food plot mix. This is designed to attract deer during.

0:25 The summer with good things to eat and as you can see from the height I've got some Paul sorghums in here, our sweet forever Egyptian wheat that provide this is basically like a forest in a couple months. This provides a lot of cover in.

0:42 Addition to the food value we've got some things in here that deer really like to eat. You see lining up these stalks is some Rado soybeans we've got some Sun hemp in here which they're really just a door.

0:58 We've got some seed heads of some millet. We've got a lot of variety of things in here and if there's something that I would constantly emphasize when it comes to deer food plot mixes there is no one silver bullet forage deer like variety.

1:20 They like a buffet. No matter how good that plant is, they will usually just nibble on it a little bit and then go eat something else. That's just the way deer eat. So having a lot of diversity, a lot of variety, legumes and grasses can.

1:39 Be very helpful for attracting deer. And one nice thing about this is that once the frost hits and a lot of these summer annual plants lose their food value to deer, but continue to retain their cover value, and so this can be.

1:58 Something it's very very useful, especially in places that have harsh winters. You can imagine if you're a deer and the wind is blowing and you're cold and you can step into this and feel pretty protected. Obviously one thing.

2:34 Growing plants is they will use this. They'll plan this out so that deer will use these for travel lanes. Also hunters can use them as travel lanes depending on which way the wind is blowing. I know people that will plant strips of this.

2:52 Like spokes of a wheel radiating out from their tree stand and so this gives them a way that they can walk through this tree stand undetected with the wind in their face and deer will go out and in between the spokes of this wheel.

3:12 Patter or an X or cross or however you want to describe it radiating out from a tree stand is they will have of course this has cover value in the winter but not much feed value in between those spokes they will have winter annual.

3:32 Mixes things like peas and clover and wheat and rye oats, things that deer like to eat on in the winter time. But they will use these as travel lanes, and so if you have all these lanes radiating out from your tree stand in different directions, not only does it allow you to get to your tree stand undetected and seeing the deer will use these, but if they are all radiating out you can look and see every time one of those deer pop out of that strip and go into the food plot area you can see them. You have a 360 degree view through all those spokes instead of, no matter which way the wind is blowing, no matter which way they're coming from, you can see them.