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Post by trophycollector on Apr 15, 2017 17:45:57 GMT -6
Can I get some opinions on winter wheat and winter rye for deer in the fall and spring? Just wondering if the deer prefer one over the other?Thanks!
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Post by biglakebass on Apr 15, 2017 18:12:08 GMT -6
I have side by side tested a few times and winter rye was better fall fall use in my tests each time.
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Post by Catscratch on Apr 15, 2017 18:19:11 GMT -6
I have side by side tested a few times and winter rye was better fall fall use in my tests each time. I've done the exact same thing and have always found wheat to be the preferred crop. But my deer won't touch a turnip either so who knows, mine are just goofy...
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Post by biglakebass on Apr 15, 2017 18:33:34 GMT -6
I have seen this debate oodles of times. I ordered my rye friday.
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Post by terrifictom on Apr 15, 2017 18:51:19 GMT -6
You want the best of all do a wheat ,oats rye mix with winter peas mixed in for candy.
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Post by wklman on Apr 15, 2017 19:09:00 GMT -6
You want the best of all do a wheat ,oats rye mix with winter peas mixed in for candy. Sounds like a deadly mix for early bowhunting.
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Post by terrifictom on Apr 15, 2017 19:43:07 GMT -6
You want the best of all do a wheat ,oats rye mix with winter peas mixed in for candy. Sounds like a deadly mix for early bowhunting. Actually it is deadly mix until the snow gets too deep. The deer start on the peas and oats as soon as they pop out of ground. Then after a couple good freeze the deer move to the wheat and rye along with any left over peas.
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Post by Reagan on Apr 15, 2017 20:07:07 GMT -6
I plant rye. If I can't buy it when I need it, I plant wheat.
They eat either one.
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Post by Catscratch on Apr 15, 2017 20:20:38 GMT -6
You want the best of all do a wheat ,oats rye mix with winter peas mixed in for candy. Great mix! You can use sunflowers, clover, and h. vetch with it too.
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Post by smsmith on Apr 15, 2017 20:24:50 GMT -6
Zone 3b/4a rye is a sure thing. WW is less of a sure thing. WR fields around my place in Todd Cty. are getting pounded right now. I have yet to talk with a farmer who grows WW locally. Pretty sure there's a reason
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Post by coop on Apr 15, 2017 20:30:57 GMT -6
Don't mean to hijack the thread but I often wonder about Triticale. It doesn't get much discussion in these spaces. Anybody ever tried it? If so, how does it compare to WW and/or WR?
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Post by biglakebass on Apr 15, 2017 20:33:12 GMT -6
Well, I googled the price and its 4 times as much as Winter Rye for 50 lbs. I have never tried it, and dont need to. My Rye gets the love it needs at $9 for 50 lbs.
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Post by jselsor on Apr 15, 2017 20:41:50 GMT -6
I planted allot of wheat last fall and the use shut off in early Dec. My deer had very little late season food. My late season hunting suffered because of it. I won't skip on the rye ever again! In a grain plot anyways
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Post by sd51555 on Apr 15, 2017 22:45:47 GMT -6
Rye vs wheat is something I've never had to try. I have always gone with what is easiest to grow with limited equipment. We've all seen the pics of rye growing in the bed of a pickup and so forth. I'm also blessed with such a poor native food supply that my deer will eat about any offering. It's been about 7 years since any logging happened in the neighborhood and you can see it's been hard on the little bit of clearing that I do. It's a sure thing to see browse on the good stuff.
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Post by sd51555 on Apr 15, 2017 23:23:22 GMT -6
I will say this, last fall I put in my first pure stand of rye. Before it had always been mixed or overseeded into other stuff. The other plots were all failures come fall, but the little rye plot I had, had food and deer in it all the way through November. I got robbed of my dream sit over a quality food plot in northern MN in late November when two feet of snow fell the Friday going into the final weekend.
Anyway, that's a soil rehab plot. I'm letting the rye go full term into summer and then doing a throw and mow brassica plot with the remains. Might throw in some WGF sorghum too just to see if it can make it before frost.
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