If you could only plant one thing..

[CopperHead77]

in your food plot, what would it be?

 

[8 POINTS OR BETTER]

Eagle soybeans

 

[BowGuy84]

If I had enough room to sustain soy beans...if not annuals like winter wheat in the fall.

 

[richmanbarbeque]

Eagle soybeans

I love them Eagle Soybeans. It would be tough with my property to only plant these though. I would have to say clover of some sort.

 

[jmb4wd]

Id go with a long fruiting money tree with maybe some money shrubs as a windbread! ha ha

Maybe then I could support my outdoor habits a little better!

 

[BSK]

If I had the acreage in food plots to keep the deer from eating them to the ground, Eagle Soybeans.

 

[Jarred525]

If I could say 2 things, it would be soybeans and a cereal grain (wheat or oats)

 

[BSK]

If I could say 2 things, it would be soybeans and a cereal grain (wheat or oats)

That would be a great summer/fall annual rotation.

 

[PickettSFHunter]

In my situation(small acreage cleared) I would have to say winter wheat.

 

[Football Hunter]

clover,it does great at my place,and they eat it

 

[stirrat]

sounds like i need to try these eagle beans.


questions
anyone have pics of them?
when do you plant them?
when do they die out and become not valuable?

thanks in advance.

 

[stirrat]

sounds like i need to try these eagle beans.


questions
anyone have pics of them?
when do you plant them?
when do they die out and become not valuable?

thanks in advance.

 

[tn droptine]

sounds like i need to try these eagle beans.


questions
anyone have pics of them?
when do you plant them?
when do they die out and become not valuable?

thanks in advance.

Getting four acres planted in them this year by jmb4wd, will be posting pics to track progress. Mine will be going in the ground here as soon as the weather clears - we've been pounded by rain the last few weeks. They are developed as a forage crop, they are supposed to stay green past the time normal beans wilt for harvest, but I can not answer first-hand on that since this is the first year I am trying them

 

[tn droptine]

Here is the link to Eagle's website, lots of info there:

www.eagleseed.com/forage.html

 

[BSK]

when do you plant them?

Early to mid May.

when do they die out and become not valuable?

First frost.

 

[jmb4wd]

when do you plant them?

Early to mid May.

Its probably going to mid May before it drys out enough to plant them at my place!

 

[8 POINTS OR BETTER]

I planted some April 21, on a ridge top plot of a friend of mine. The soil needs to 60 degrees.

 

[stirrat]

sounds like a good bow hunting and summer browse plot.


not very productive by muzzle loader and gun season?

 

[jmb4wd]

sounds like a good bow hunting and summer browse plot.


not very productive by muzzle loader and gun season?

If they survive the summer browsing, and put on pods, you should have a great late gun season food source, especially in a bad acorn year.

 

[deerchaser007]

With you saying 1 thing,.. i assume you mean only one thing period,.. spring/summer/fall/winter,.. SO,.. if i only planted one thing and thats all i was going to plant in any size plot,.. it would be clover/chicory. Its not one specific plant,.. but clover and chicory are made for each other,.. and i always recommend a mix over a single planting.

If it were one thing per rotation,.. i would use imperial powerplant in summer(again i prefer mixes), and nothing but oats in fall/winter.

 

[BSK]

sounds like a good bow hunting and summer browse plot.


not very productive by muzzle loader and gun season?

They are a summer nutrition source, not a hunting season attraction source. That's what you fall plantings are for.

 

[BSK]

sounds like a good bow hunting and summer browse plot.


not very productive by muzzle loader and gun season?

If they survive the summer browsing, and put on pods, you should have a great late gun season food source, especially in a bad acorn year.

Just don't expect deer to go wild for soybean pods themselves. Soybean beans are not high a deer's preference list. But if food sources are limited, they will eat them.

 

[Lee Creek22]

Clover.

 

[mathews338]

soybeans!

 

[onside]

Eagle Soybeans, and it's not even close.

I've planted clover,alfalfa,soybeans,corn,winter wheat,forage oats,austrian winter peas,sunflowers,and millet.

Nothing is as productive for me as Eagle beans.

They are a great draw all summer into bow season. Then when they are hit by frost and the leaves brown and fall off the deer will leave them for about a month (which coincides with the acorn drop anyway).

After a few weeks the seeds dry out and deer absolutely slam mine! I have witnessed deer walk through ladino clover plots and standing corn to get to the beans.

We killed deer out of our beans this year with six inches of snow on the ground. They draw deer longer into the season than most think.

 

[Truedouble]

We planted Eagle Brand a few years back but didn't plant enough acreage and the deer ate them down to nothing before they had a chance. From experience your better off planting a few large fields in lieu of multiple small fields. That being said what is the opinion on the minimum size field needed to sustain growth. This is in NE AL. on the Tn. line, so not extremely high deer numbers, but enough still. I'd like to try them again next year. Are farm used to have around 60 acres in row crops (corn/ beans rotation) and based on what we saw there is nothing better.

 

[RKenney]

I know it's impossible, but if it was, I would plant several one to two acre plots of honeysuckle with grown up weeds fields between the plots, with a few oak stands of timber close by.

 

[Football Hunter]

I wonder if anything would out compete a field of poke weed?

 

[BSK]

I wonder if anything would out compete a field of poke weed?

During August and September, probably not, but that's a short time-frame.

 

[BSK]

I know it's impossible, but if it was, I would plant several one to two acre plots of honeysuckle with grown up weeds fields between the plots, with a few oak stands of timber close by.

The most heavily used areas of my property are not the food plots but the two high-tension power-line right-of-ways that cross my property. The once-every-three-years mowing regime produces a plethera of native forbs and honeysuckle, which are all fairly drought resistant.