When To Plant Fall Food Plots
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- Is it time to plant your Fall food plots yet? Not only is there a larger timing window to plant your Fall food plots in than you may realize, but exactly when you plant your plots can vary by several weeks depending on exactly what you are planting! If you are you planting brassicas, beans, radish, oats, rye, wheat or peas...or any other food plot seed, you need to pay attention to these Fall food plot timing tips. Here is when you should plant your food plots...
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Morning coffee, prayer time and then a little “Education with Jeff”. Thank you. Jeff, could you post a few of your favorite weather forecasting tools you use? Much appreciated.
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Amen!
Just sitting down with a cup of coffee and here you are what a great way to start the day
Nice Steve...enjoy the time 👍 We have rain and storms right now...so awesome! Sitting out on the porch and answering comments...great morning!!
Nice job explaining how, why and what seed you can mix together. I am going to be hunting a new parcel at our new home this year, so there is a lot to learn. Hopefully it rains here in central MN.
Love your videos! I have a new 120 acre lot in NW Arkansas that I’ve been planning off of the knowledge learned from here and I can’t wait to start putting it together. Also I’d like to know of you sell those green WHS hats and where I could buy one.
Planting everything today. 2nd year doing the no-till method. I am amazed what one year did to my soil. Thanks for all the info Jeff!! Great stuff.
That is awesome to hear Alan!! Really happy for you.
Thanks a lot for watching!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Jeff I got everything in today. I'm getting old and it about killed me hand seeding. Would it hurt anything to hook my hitch mounted spreader on my UTV and seed that way. The barassicas are not the problem. It's the beans and peas!! Thank you, Sir.
So much good information and perfect timing! I’m finishing my planting today here in northern Wisconsin. Rain is on the way! Was just wondering if you spread different size seeds separately in your earth way spreader. Thanks!
So great to hear...enjoy the rain!! PERFECT timing for me too!!
I do...but I mix radish, peas, beans and oats together. Then the brassicas I mix with tillage radish too. The larger seeds I often mix in each Earthway bag fill up.
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 ..thank you!!
Planted my whs green blend from john yesterday. Still super dry in Bemidji MN. Supposed to rain this weekend and into next week.
I hope you get this rain...looks like a lot to the North!!
Hey Jeff, I've got a 7.5, and am wanting to lower it down to about 6.7.should I need to put in pure product or fertilizer?
Just planted in northeast PA praying for rain it's been dry but it's supposed to rain Tuesday 🤞
Another great video!! Question on top dressing winter rye....what type pf seed do u use and approx how many lbs per acre...nortgern , mi
Well I'm planting winter peas and rye hopefully no later than next week! I just found out my bridge collapsed so kinda have to fix that first! 🤦♂️🤦♂️
This is my first year planting, I ordered WHS forage blend, sweet feast brassica and cereal rye, can you tell me the setting on your seed broadcaster for each?
What! You sitting out on the porch.good to hear your taking a break.we get so busy sometimes we forget to stop and smell the roses.
Great timely vidio.I don't have situation where I can plant a food plot but I still can't wait for another of your vidios .thanks for your work and sharing.
Heh ! Take a nap while your kicking back😁
Ive been racking my brain on when and how to plant out my seeds. Timing for this post was perfect. Another entry to my "deer hunting according to jeff" notebook. Thank you Jeff for sharing your knowledge on this, so much appreciated. I have a lot of respect for you and what you do and if you knew me thats not an easy thing to do. Your doing what you love and making a living out of it. How cool is that!
That's great Joey...and man, I appreciate those words! I try to put out info that helps so it means a lot to me when I get feedback like yours. Thank you!!
Gotta be careful not to plant to early here in Oklahoma. Dadgum armyworms will lay waste to a plot faster than you can spray it.
Got my food plot planted this week just in time for the rain. First time using plot start. Excited to see what happens! Thanks for all the great info!
Man that's great Tesha, happy for you!! Enjoy 😊
How was the plot start?
I'm in very south Texas, normally wait till mid September to plant anything due to lack of rain and extreme heat. Usually dont get frost till late November or even mid December. Am I waiting to late?
I watch all your videos. Love them all. I've learned a lot. We here in Louisiana, what dates you think on brassica's? Thanks
Mid September
Gonna plant some brassicas in a couple hours! 🌱
How is WHS on orders and shipment? Just finally closed on my land. Obviously a little behind on planting... As always more good advice!!!
Yeah, we keep getting rain in the forecast but it turns into no rain.
I don’t remember a summer where it looked like rain so many days but never rained.
I planted to early last year. Deer hammered it and drought so crop failed. Had to pounded in September with rye.
I'm new to this page and food plotting. This will be my first year attempting this. We're in S.E. Michigan (Livingston Co) where we have had epic rain. My plot location will be on Family, hardwood land. While golfing recently I have noticed the Acorns are beginning to fall. My Daughter and I are wanting to get at this food plot. We're trying to not suffer from information overload. It is a blessing to stumble across someone who has been at this food plot in Michigan. Thank you and God Bless
Hey Jeff, whenever you put your plotstart down, do you mix it in with your glyphosate whenever your are killing the buckwheat?
Miquel, You cant mix it with glyphosate...spray it at the time of planting (even over buckwheat after you spray glyphosate).
@@deerfoodplots good to know, thank you!
Do you mow paths through your switchgrass to connect wooded travel corridors to your food plots; and if yes, do bucks typically use those mowed paths or do they walk parallel to that mowed path but downwind.
Hi Virgil I would recommend that in large switchgrass areas but in small screenings they create their own trails for sure. Make sure they aren't straight as an arrow. They seem to use them more often than not! They should end at a woodline with a treestand, maybe a waterhole but definitely a mock scrape and treestand.
Hi Jeff, I just purchased a property this year. Haven't had much chance to do anything with it yet. Is it too late to get some kind of fall food in without tilling equipment? I have an atv, sprayer and a roller. I'm planning on following your no till process in the spring but would like to get something in this year if it's possible.
Hey Jeff! Just curious why we might plant the peas and beans with the brassicas when a lot of the time we are planting them side by side? Should we just mix them together? Thanks
Hi Joe...hope all is great on the land!! They can sweeten the brassica too much and cause early grazing pressure. In areas they don't eat the brassica until Dec or later, I would combine them...
Pretty cool you can alter the timing of when the deer feed on brassica by combining them with the candy crops...
Tradger Farms! The OTHER Minnesota WHS channel I watch! Love watching local crops and conditions as I dream of plots on my own land some day. Can’t wait for you to harvest a buck using your plans. Thanks to you both for all you do for us whitetail lovers.
Morning Jeff, I planted last Saturday here in western pa, rain was 60 percent for Sunday, got everything planted and sunday came and no rain… hasn’t rained since so I’m hoping I didn’t waste time and money., it was my first time trying your no till method
Good rain here in Central wi for the next week got the plot in just in time this morning. Thanks for all the great videos Jeff, I've learned so much 👍
Thank you! This is the video ive been looking for!
Looking for a good spreader. Do you use the Earthway brand for advertising or is it a top brand spreader? I have a spreader for my tractor but I need a hand speeder for tight spots like fire lines or narrow food plots.
Hi Mark, I have loved my Earthway model 2750 for around 20 years! In fact we like them so much when they changed the model 3xs over the last 2 years, we largely complained until they brought them back 😁 We then added them to our site over the last day and will sell them within a few days. They are also making us our own custom design!
We were pretty worried until they got back to us and changed the model back to the original. We can't wait to have our own model some day soon
Can you give me a web site or suggestion where I can buy one?
Could you broadcast grains in a picked cornfield in Illinois say early September if fiends harvested
You sure can...even into late September down there 😊
Hi! Received my book in the mail today and will be reading all night and the rest of the week!!! THANK YOU. I got some seeds in the ground today / rain!
Good evening Jeff. Love your show! My younger brother and I live near Saratoga, NY. We have a 100 acre family hunting camp in the Adirondack Mountains. We have acidic soil, and have been putting lime down on our 3 plots that are about 1/4 to 1/2 acre plots. We were wondering what tips or ideas on what to plant and when?
Ware planting our plots today in upstate NY. Brassicas should germinate quick with 4 days of rain in the forecast this week here in NY. Last year was the first time we planted brassicas instead of just corn and saw a lot of deer including 3 different shooters multiple times throughout our season hitting them in the afternoon. Very excited to see how they do this year.
Boy that is awesome...you will be getting the rain that we are getting right now. Great growing season!!
We planted all our brassica plots with sweet feast august 7th just north of McGregor Minnesota because we saw rain forecasted 50 and 60 percent and it was getting late for us with limited time of available weekends with a 2.5 hour drive one way to the land. Unfortunately the rain the day of and day after planting didn’t happen. It went south more. I am praying for rain in the near forecast which currently does not look good. 🤞
Thanks for great information on Whitetail deer and food plots gonna use more of your techniques to help my brassica and clover plots
Hey Jeff so I’m planting my brassica tomorrow after this video I’m gonna add peas.. does it matter what kind of peas.. also I have the right amount of brassica seed for my plot. If I peas is it to much seed for the plot.. should I lower the amount of brassica
Thanks for talking about the WV planting dates. We normally get left out because there's not much agriculture and food plots are all the deer have.
Hi Jeff.
I own 6 acres. YES..6 acres. We take a deer or 2 every year. Would like to do a 50x100 food plot. Corn is 1/4 mile away in 4 directions. What could I plant? Never done a food plot...and can't help thinking I need something to condition the deer in Summer, so they're conditioned to come to it like Corn!? (Corn versus Brasscas)?
We're in Ottawa county in Michigan.
Had rain in the forecast all day yesterday, 90% chance at 6pm, so I planned my brassica food plot in the AM.
Not a drop of rain.
Chances again today, and the next 3 days, so here’s hoping 🤞
Jeff,
When you lived in the UP, What did you find was the best seed? We hunt in far northern WI where we have 40 acres land locked in the national forest, similar to your UP days.
Would you say just go with rye or clover in that type of harsh environment or ?
Thanks for all you do, it is greatly appreciated!
Thanks for the information. Would you use whiter rye to help control weeds on a new plot ?
Always excited to watch your videos. Every year get better. Ive only got 1.25 acreas for food plots but it sure is fun when you get to see the results for the work i put in. Love seeing the deer in my back yard and property.
planted our brassica mix this weekend. broadcasted, rolled, fert., and sprayed. our buckwheat didn't do to hot this summer. the grass that grew was waist high it crush over pretty good. it was holding a lot of moisture in ground. will plant cereal rye in sept.
I'm in SE Michigan and I always shoot for August 1st for brassicas, which may seem a little early, but if Mother Nature throws a drought curveball it gives me time for a do-over in late August. Brassicas will grow in about any soil, but if they germinate and then go 7-10 days with no precipitation, my experience shows a 100% chance of failure or at best serious stunting. So I always plan for having time for two seedings if necessary. Also, brassica seeds are tiny, so if you are disking and tilling and you get a deluge of rain prior to germination, the seed can work its way too deep into the soil...so I always shoot for planting prior to those days when the radar shows green, not yellow and red. I learned that lesson one year too. I've found that's one bonus of the no till method because the thatch protects the seed from a driving rain. Moral of the story is that the windows for brassicas is pretty wide, so I shoot for early in the window knowing that there will time for a re-do if weather doesn't cooperate. Thanks and great video.
Good morning jeff, we have a hunting lease around 1800 acres with heavy deer population when we have a heavy acorn yr, it's all hard woods, we have a power line and a pipeline that we can plant around 7 acres. The strips are 30 ft wide, would you plant 15 ft wide brassica and plant the other half beans, peas, and oats then rye or can we plant 30 ft wide brassica with beans, peas, little oats the. Come back 5 to 6 wks later and broadcast winter rye over it. Thank you
Just planted my Brassicas, Forage Peas, Winter Peas, and clover 2 days ago! Excited to see how my new 1/4 of an acre food plot goes! Thanks Jeff!
Nice...that's awesome Isaac...excited for you!!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Thanks!
Is there anything I can plant in mid September in SW Michigan? Or am I to late? I want something that they can eat to maintain health when other sources have been depleted. I am next to a 15 acre soy bean field that will be picked clean and a 40 acre corn field that will also be harvested completely. Let me know your thoughts on this. I have 2 acres I can plant.
Funny you mentioned WV....I'm in the Eastern Panhandle and where I am, we haven't had any rain at all in over a month and everything is so dry!! Been holding off on planting my brassicas until we finally get some rain.
Great idea to hold off! You still have a lot of time down there 😊 I bet will work well for you and your patience will be rewarded!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Thank You Sir and as Always well done on your videos and Thank You for all the information you provide for us all!
How long should lime be in the soil before planting (Brassica)?
On lighter soil I would apply anytime and plant. I would also apply PlotStart at 2.5 gallons per acre and that will greatly help with the initial application!
@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751
Excellent! Thank you I'll give them both a try.
Get them in the ground! We are seeing some rain in the forecast!!
Had a fail the last two years with brassica because of over seeding
Man it happens so easily tho!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 so what is going to last the longest into the late season when we are getting heavy snow here in upstate NY? I know you recommended winter peas, rye grain, and some buckwheat and light oats? Thank you for all your videos it’s making me a smarter hunter. I’m totally restructuring my plot locations and access points as well as rotating crops with your no till process best wishes this fall to you and your family and crew
I tried planting clover last fall (sept) with cereal rye, the rye did great the clover did not survive. Not sure why, any thoughts? Love your vids...
Not sure? Would take a while to figure it out but one important thing is to make sure that kill the rye out in the spring either with a grass specific herbicide or by mowing when it is no more than 12-15" tall
Hey Jeff, if I fertilize at the time of planting can I still apply Gly for that last kill or can you not mix gly and fertilizer same day?
Will 24d kill marestail? I usually just spray my plots a few times a year with glyphosate before planting but have a problem with marestail in a couple of them.
Yes it will kill marestail, but remember 2,4D has a couple week residual effect so you won't be able to spray it and plant anything right away.
Alabama taking notes 📋 Love the content, We have a 170 acres in central AL, wildlife reservation coming soon!
Nice Ethan...enjoy the process and I hope that the info helps you out a lot!
Southern New Hampshire but because of timing im looking and planting brassicas next weekend. Am I too late?
Hi Kevin!! That should work well and you should have some moist ground by then too!
I hunt on 60 acres actually it's 100 but the road kind of splits it in half I have no control over the food plot that's there it's not my land but there's no screening around it and you have to walk right through it to get to the tree stand I hunted at one time last year blew out two nice bucks I will never sit there again
Man those food plots can kill your hunt if you educate the deer on them...really smart staying off of them Denny! Have a great Saturday 😊
Hey Jeff I spread fall seed Thursday buckwheat rolled what’s my window before gly intitiated
Paul...I like your call to skip the Gly at this point!
Are planting dates different if you have access to water to water them. Im planting oats and brassicas in oklahoma?
Iv planted 4 plots over the last 3 weekends, have had tons of rain in northern Michigan, we lucky have had so much that my water holes are overflowing
Man, so fortunate Joe, and great to hear! Looks like more on the way too!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 yep all looking good, besides 1 but that was a last second decision have lots of weeds. Put cloves and some radish, going to hammer it with rye tho
Michigan here nailed it West branch thank you very much very informational
That's great to hear...hope you have a great planting season!
should be framed in reference to soil or ambient temperature, heck in Texas it will be mid 90s well into September maybe rain in October...today was about 95-100 here in DFW
I've started spraying the day after I plant. Trying to minimize the time from sunlight reaching the soil until the time my seeds germinate. I might try two days after next year.
I spray the exact same time as planting...really religious about that for over 10 years now! I broadcast seed first, then immediately spray...
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 will it hurt to spray a couple days after? Planting brassica this afternoon in the rain and need to wait until it stops to spray, looks like Monday... is this a bad idea? Thanks! Great Info by the way, I follow religiously!
@@dankrohn2511 I'm in the same boat, finished seeding and rolling in the dark last night (Friday) to beat the rain but the forecast for spraying doesn't look good until late Monday afternoon. Not ideal but I think we'll be OK.
@@mattotto2380 I was actually able to get out yesterday at about 11:00 am and spray before it rained again at 4 so we will see...
@@dankrohn2511 Same here, Dan. SW WI. Had a window open up.
Hello Jeff! I have a couple questions. I live in Southern Ontario, Canada. When would you plant your buckwheat in this kind of climate for a fall plot of sugar beets, radish and turnips? Or would sugar beets even work with buckwheat smashed over it? Also the best I got for a roller is about a 300 pounder. Really look forward to hearing from you!
p.s I also have bunch of kale I'm going to put in a small patch just to see what the deer do with it
If i just planted brassica blend a week ago in the up of Michigan could I still layer rye over the brassica. I’m worried about over browsing. Thanks Jeff.
Did you say Gaylord? 😂
Gaylord...it's this place 😁
I did my fall WHS blend side the same time as my brassicas on July 17th.because last year I waited and it failed. Now both my brassicas and my fall mix side are going great.mid michigan.what do I do now with the fall blend side.i know I did it to early.
Jeff. Love your videos and I have prob watched all of them. I do have to questions. You talk about it but not specifically like I’m going to ask.
1) you talk about not putting rye into brassicas due to competition. Is it ok however to layer it in like you do after brassicas are grown say I plant brassica aug 1st and want to layer rye in middle of sept?
2) planted my plots end of July with good rain in forecast. Got the rain for a couple days with great germination a week later. But now we are looking at no rain in the 10 day forecast. My question is how long after you plant and don’t get rain do you need to get worried. NY planting and I did the buckwheat no till method.
Thanks and keep the content rolling
Thank you for all the great info on plots. I have an acre of brassicas that’s been in for a month (SE SD, very dry). Got lucky with the only rain in July, so it’s growing but very spotty. Is it ok to then follow up with Rye in early September or should I broadcast peas or oats? Can’t drill only roll.
Thanks for any insight you might be able to share.
Hi SD you are very welcome! Right now is actually the perfect time for planting brassica in SD. If it looks light I would add some brassica seed to the planting if you have rain in the next week. Otherwise, definitely add heavy rye early to mid Sept.
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Thank you!
We have farmers growing soybeans currently on our farm. We have designated several areas of the crop and over seeded the soybeans with brassicas on one side and winter rye on the other. I’m hoping that the leaves on the beans turn yellow and allow enough growing time for our brassicas. Have you ever planted over ag like that before? I’m sure the rye will be fine but I’m just hoping the brassicas get enough growth before the cold temps hit. I’m in southern Indiana.
Jeff, I disked my buckwheat the last week and noticed there were some plants were starting to go to seed. I broadcasted my brassicas the same day and cultipacked. After a week i noticed that my buckwheat germinating as well as the brassicas. Will the buckwheat out compete the brassicas? Will i need to start over?
I agree with all of this, however there is one thing that I would like to throw out there. I have a beautiful spot in a creek bottom. About 1/3 acre food plot with a GIANT healthy white oak in the center of it. The place doesn't get as much light as a result of it and the surrounding trees. Because of this I plant two weeks earlier than my other larger plots and has always turned out great for me.
Jeff I just picked up a 50 acre plot that has a creek on one side and a major highway on the other. I can barely hear the highway traffic on the opposite end of the property along the creek. My question is do you think mature bucks would bed on the property if they can hear the highway noise?
Aug will be 100 plus degrees here
Thank Jeff for the information I was wondering if I could plant brassica and fall rye together her up in Ontario Canada
Birds eating lots of my seeds, Like song birds any advice on this ?
I seed heavy Shawn with those grains, right before rain...that helps a little at least. Seeding into the buckwheat helps, and seeding buckwheat into rye in the Spring helps a great deal too!
I love the information your putting out. I’ve watched tons of your videos on food plots and created a daytime dear hunting area and holding dear during the hunting months. I live in Georgia and what do you think would be the best food plot to plant for this area?
Why does everyone skip the southeast??
What settings do you use on your spreader? I just planted about 2 acres of winter wheat and rape and some forage oats. Curious though of what you find are the best settings?
Wow!! Your making Dylan work overtime to get videos out fast!!! Looks like we’re getting some nice rain!! We might get wet tomorrow!!!
The rain is looking really good!! Might get wet?
Dylan is always grinding! We shot 11 videos, finished all of the plantings and sprayed both Gly and Plot Start...in 2 days. Got tons of great footage too 👍
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 we might get wet doing water holes tomorrow…
Jeff do you have a seed perf. Or is it better to use seed such as friged forest
Hi Thomas!! I use some of the basic seeds from the local feed mill and then the mixes...like my brassica...from Northwoods Whitetails
MN drought has been hard on my food plots... Grasshoppers have even been worse!
When you apply plot boost are you using boom sprayer or are you using back pack sprayer so you don’t drive over crop
I'm in Hayward WI. 6am this morning I was out spreading seed and spraying some plot start in the rain...loved it.
Thank you for all your help and your time, you guys are appreciated.
Plot start in the rain ??? Does it have a surfactant in it
I just planted my food plot it rained this morning I seeded it packed it down with my car and it is raining again
My plot screen and corn are doing well, put brassica in last week and rye will go in late August, been following your advice for a couple years now and your advice is spot on, thanks for all the help
Can you plant turnips/ Rape with winter Rye? Or mix winter peas with winter rye?
Thank you Jeff for sharing your vast knowledge of these subjects. It is greatly appreciated! God bless you Sir.
Hey Jeff,Have an issue??Turkeys are eating my brassica shoots.I watched 6 jakes pulling them out.Should I replant ?Or make spiedies out of them??
Ha...well, whatever is legal D 😊 That's a tough one I haven't seen that to a high degree. Definitely reseed if needed...can always follow up with rye in Sept if needed!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 I have 200# just waiting to go in.
Same problem
@@andytommelleo9119 I went and checked it.They didn’t eat as much as I thought.But I’m sure they will be back..
what day did you plant jeff? My plots are in genoa! Got mine down today.
Hey Jeff, so if I’m in central Illinois and doing a plot with half sweet feast brassica blend and half fall forage, I should plant them at the the same time? And if so should I plant them both now because I was planning on just planting my brassica today?
I live in central Illinois too! Yes, you need to Plant your food plot, especially your brassicas right now. 👍
2:57 pm in ohio, just sat down with a cup of coffe... seems to be a theme
Where do you get your seed from?
Is it okay to use Trophy Rock if I have clover in my food plot
I was at the local feed store yesterday, annual rye was $40 per 40lb bag, cover crop rye was $23 per bushel, what's the difference and what you recommended? Brassica planting day here in KY!!
He means WINTER rye not annual. Annual rye is a grass seed and shouldn't be in your food Plot because it doesn't offer as much nutrition to the deer.
Got my brassicas in July 27th here in NEPA
No rain in northern mn near the Duluth MN area. Very scary dry!!!
So I have a question, I recently gained permission to hunt 32 acres here in Ky that is woods with a couple 5-6 acre fields that haven’t been brush hogged in a couple years so it’s really got a ton of young trees, looks like great bedding, I just hung a stand on the edge of the first one of these with quiet access, but I was thinking of placing a corn pile on the edge, is this a bad idea since it’s so close to their bedding, is that too intrusive? Any reply’s are muchly appreciated
Place it half way between bedding and water source if you can identify one
What spreader setting do you use to spread clover and brassica?