After this last snow and cold snap my plots have turned a little yellow? Will that curtail usage?
Food Plots Green field question
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Mine have went dead. Disappointing
I'm about 1/2 green and 1/2 yellow. I figure the oats are yellow. I was getting a ton of deer usage out of them before.
Not sure, maybe they'll move across the road 
Haven't noticed our triticale turning but it's all eaten down about lip high.
There's a 20 acre wheat field across highway from my house. Two weeks ago I was thinking that it was some of the best I'd seen this year, today it is yellow...
Haven't noticed our triticale turning but it's all eaten down about lip high. There's a 20 acre wheat field across highway from my house. Two weeks ago I was thinking that it was some of the best I'd seen this year, today it is yellow...
I was fairly active till all the snow melted.
I'm in the same boat, yellow plots and deer usage way down.
BSK
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Deer are still pounding mine. But mostly night-time usage. Although I also have crimson clover and winter peas in my plots.
JCDEERMAN
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Our big fields are lush green about 6" tall. The smaller ones are lip high and taking a pounding
ADR
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Hunted a winter wheat field the other night that had over 30 deer in it. Hasn't slowed em at all. My worry is all the privet in my area is toast. That's usually deer browse that helps them through tough times
deerhunter10
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Our went yellow still getting used. You can re apply fertilizer and it should pop back green. May come back anyways. We hit some of ours with light dose today.
megalomaniac
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LOL... radishes died back in Nov with the 17 deg temps. This last blast with -3 temps killed the crap outta the turnips.
Still have plenty of wheat and balansa clover (1/2 in tall), the deer are hammering them... well, not just hammering, but it seems I'm pulling every deer from a square mile around them. They are so lucky my son isn't up there right now.
Still have plenty of wheat and balansa clover (1/2 in tall), the deer are hammering them... well, not just hammering, but it seems I'm pulling every deer from a square mile around them. They are so lucky my son isn't up there right now.
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I cut the yellow off several of mine today. (Cereal rye &annual rye. Then fertilized. Hopefully that will stimulate new growth while the temp are up and raining.
My others are like everyone else's, Deer lipping high. Maybe an inch tall. Gonna throw a little 34-0-0 on them and hope
My others are like everyone else's, Deer lipping high. Maybe an inch tall. Gonna throw a little 34-0-0 on them and hope
they'll bounce back.
JCDEERMAN
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What are planted besides oats? If just oats, I'd say with the temps we've had, they most definitely are yellow. Oats are crippled by cold temps. I like to plant multiple species….rye, wheat, oats, a brassica and a clover. You'll feed deer and other critters most months out of the (hunting) year. Rye and wheat are much more cold tolerant
They are just wheat, oats and rye. Equal parts. Been seeing lots of deer. Still saw lots rbis afternoon so I guess it don't matter. Just concerned me when a week ago they were bright green.
Yeah mine as well
skipperbrown
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Mine are a combo of wheat, oats and clover. After the hard freeze, they looked dead, but have made an amazing comeback in the last week with rain, warm temps, and some sunshine. I had a whole herd of does/yearlings on the plot I was hunting last night.
BSK
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Deer have been pounding my plots at night recently (wheat, crimson clover, Austrian winter peas).
348Winchester
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Mine greened up nicely after the deep freeze. The only problem I see is that they are small plots and are already eaten down tremendously.
