Growing wheat
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06/11/19 12:24 PM
06/11/19 12:24 PM
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ambush32
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I’ve grown wheat before for hunting purposes but started way earlier.. Just wondering if I was to plant wheat or rye now if it would tassel out come fall? Not for hunting I just want it for a border and a little feed for wildlife..
Thought I was a good trapper until I started trapping coyotes...... Thought I was a good bowhunter until I targeted mature bucks....
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Re: Growing wheat
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06/11/19 04:43 PM
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Talk to whoever you get the seed from.
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Re: Growing wheat
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06/11/19 05:40 PM
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bacatrapper
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Another option would be proso millet. It would certainly go to seed for you, and wildlife/livestock love it.
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Re: Growing wheat
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06/12/19 10:16 AM
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ambush32
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Thanks for the info
Sounds like spring wheat will work..might try rye and millet also..
Thanks
Thought I was a good trapper until I started trapping coyotes...... Thought I was a good bowhunter until I targeted mature bucks....
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Re: Growing wheat
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06/12/19 10:45 AM
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GREENCOUNTYPETE
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you might consider planting Hay.
deer will eat nearly every day from a hay field , it is a perennial crop cut it once or twice a year if you can. if you can find someone with the equipment and can get them to cut it for them keeping 2/3 or 3/4 the crop even better , leave the bales out over the winter and deer will forage on them when the snow is deep
a small woods or even ara of tal grass to provide shelter and screening with water , a creek , a hole you dug that collects run off something as a source of water near and hay near by will support a lot of deer build a small exclusion fence and fence off a 8 foot square and see how much they are eating the tops off all your other hay.
high protein legume grass makes good growth in beef and sheep and it does the same in deer and more importantly it is there all the time not just when it seeds.
a friend has 10 acre with a small creek at he edge running through he 5 acre woods , the thousands of acres surrounding him had been all corn for years , they saw some deer.
when the acres right around his 10 went to all hay 3-4 years ago the number of deer and the size of the deer grew.
his family now constantly sees deer nearly every day , they are harvesting on average 3 large deer a year all going over 200 pounds from a 5 acre woods as well as 3-4 turkey a year.
I am hearing similar things form others that are concentrating on building hunting property as wel as people concentrating on native prairie as to the number of deer they are seeing
screening trees or tall grass so the deer don't see people even if they are sound distance form your back door they don't care of they don't see you, water even if just and old stock tank buried in the ground , and perennial grasses that are available any time they are not covered in snow. = deer there on a regular basis.
Last edited by GREENCOUNTYPETE; 06/12/19 10:56 AM.
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