How to Extend the Winter Feed

[TiminTN]

I have been hunting where I planted 7 acres of a mix of wheat/oats/DER/Chickory/Clover. The wheat/oats are looking like a finish mower has been working overtime. The warm forecast and rain may give me a boost on growth, but where I am hunting I have to walk right past my tractor and the spreader is still hooked up. Is there anything I can sow this month that will extend the winter feed for these deer?

 

[hard county]

maybe wheat, maybe cereal rye.
but if youve got a fairly thick stand, just mowed, i wouldn't. the dirt may be putting out forage as fast as it can, overseeding might do nothing more than making more stems and less leaflets. a good product for adding a boost to your forage growth is IW impact its a liquid nitrogen product which is absorbed through the leaves to give that extra little something.

 

[In_my_sights]

fertilizer

 

[Swampster]

With the warm and wet weather, I fertilized my plots and anyplace else that had a lot of fresh green weeds.

 

[BSK]

Adding ammonium nitrate to the soil now would certainly be a help. Nitrogen (what you get from ammonium nitrate) is a very volatile chemical. It literally evaporates into the air. It needs to be added to grains about every 3 months.

 

[Football Hunter]

what effect would nitro have on clover,rape, chickory, etc?

 

[BSK]

Not much, although rape usually does better with a little nitrogen mid-season.

 

[Football Hunter]

thanks

 

[deerchaser007]

Actually a hit of nitrogen on the chicory is very beneficial. In tn,. you can make the chicory survive and grow in a food plot in the winter with a adding of nitrogen. Chicory needs lots of nitrogen,.. which is usually produced by the clovers,. but in the winter adding the nitrogen will keep it going and growing.

 

[Crosshairy]

The air you breathe is about 79% nitrogen. Just put a box fan outside to blow across your fields.