wheat or rye grass

[missed deer]

which is the best to plant for deer i have both and about 100lbs of oats which do i need to plant dont have much time to plant its kinda late but i can try

[msbigdawg1234]

Either is good as lond as ya hit it good with the fertilizer.Don't waste the oats they want be there after the first freeze.

[Bigpoppa]

yep! Mix it up!!!!!

[DUCKAHOLIC]

Plant the wheat, and sweeten it up through the season with amonium (SP) nitrate. I quit planting ryegrass years ago.........they hammer the wheat plots hard.

After it gets a little tall it gets bitter but you poor the amon nitrate to it it gets the sweetness back.

[Triple Gobble]

I sell food plot material about 20 to 40 ton's a season ( wheat, rye, oats, triticale, cearal rye, greens, rape, ect.. to many to list) any way wheat and rye are found not to be a deers favorite. They are green and they look good, thats about it. Both are low in nitrogen so deer dont favor to them they oats are a great substance along with some cearal rye or some triticale and throw in some rape......

[riceman]

Bigdawg that is a misconception. Oats are not as winter hardy as wheat, but they will not be completely killed out by frost. We've planted oats on our place exclusively for years. The deer there will walk through wheat to get to oats. The problem that most folks have with oats is that they plant them too early and they probably get too big before the first frost. They're basically like wheat. If they start to joint before first frost, you will have winter damage.

[Triple Gobble]

Bigdawg that is a misconception. Oats are not as winter hardy as wheat, but they will not be completely killed out by frost. We've planted oats on our place exclusively for years. The deer there will walk through wheat to get to oats. The problem that most folks have with oats is that they plant them too early and they probably get too big before the first frost. They're basically like wheat. If they start to joint before first frost, you will have winter damage.

and i mean right through them to get to the oats.............right on riceman

[SWAG]

ryegrass is cow food, wheat on the other hand is a good choice. While oats are my favorite, wheat has it's place later in the season, and it does have good nutritional quality, just not in the younger stages as does oats.

[dukmisr2005]

i always plant twice.. once early and once later on.. that way you get two crops so one is likely to make it all the way.. btw.. i plant oats..

i used to wheat and they didnt eat it at al...

[REBEL DUCK]

Triple Gobbel Where do you work I moved to the pope area a few months back. Glad to see some Panola county people here me and Crowder Critter are about the only two I know of.

[hawkeye]

Buck Forage Oats is far superior to rye and wheat in my opinion, deer will walk across 5 miles of ryegrass to get to a little oat patch. I always mix in some clover and some austrian winter peas. Got to plant plenty of the peas, deer love them as they are coming out of the ground.