Food plots, crop by crop.
A good food plot program isn't one magic seed - it's a calendar: perennial clover for spring-to-fall nutrition, cereals for the archery weeks, brassicas and grains for the late-season cold. Here are 16 crops with notes on what each does, when it draws, and the mistakes that waste seed. Start every plot the same way: soil test first, lime second, seed third.
Perennials - plant once, feed for years The foundation layer: clover, chicory and alfalfa carry a property spring through fall.
Brassicas - the frost-switch draws Rape, turnips and radishes sweeten at first frost and own the late season.
Cereal grains - cheap, green, reliable Wheat, rye and oats green any dirt in fall and again at spring green-up.
Row crops & annuals - the big-energy plays Beans, corn, peas and roots - summer protein and deep-winter calories.
Utility & bird crops Summer soil-builders and dove-field workhorses that round out the program.
Most properties thrive on exactly this: a clover+chicory perennial (spring-fall nutrition), a cereal blend with winter peas planted for the archery opener, and a brassica mix (rape+turnip+radish) for after the frost switch. Rotate the annuals, mow the clover, soil-test everything - and check your state's plot-vs-bait rules before hunting over any of it.
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