Looking to get our corn food plot planted by the end of this week. Is it to late in your opinion to plant the corn to get full crop for the deer? It's round up ready and we have it all worked up we just need to plant! Or would we better off planting something else like beans or turnips. Thanks for the help!!
As for if better, that's up to you. I would base that decision on what is planted around that specific area as well as the size of the plot. Can always broadcast turnips into it at the end of July/early August.
Not to late. You are not trying to create a cash crop so you don't need to have it in or out the same as farmers do. Corn wouldn't be my choice to plant unless it was being used as a cover with some other better food source with it.
For sure! We already have planted an acre and a half of turnips and 3 acres of beans and have a program for about 20 acres of clover so the corn is just to create a variety for them!
Not mine either! But we already have beans, turnips and a bunch of clover in so just looking for the variety pack!
I don't know off the top of my head, we're a member at our local NWTF chapter and they give you a bag per member. So I'm sure it's nothing special.
Just curious on relative maturity. The way the last couple falls have been frost wise, 100 day corn is mid September. It'll be wet but you're not harvesting it anyhow. Anything under 100 day you should be golden. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk
most likely wont get a great crop this late but with timely rain/heat, it should be fine for a food plot
The deer, squirrels, turkeys and everything else out there will be happy I'm sure. Sounds like a good variety of food for them.
The corn we rec'd one year from the NWTF was just corn that was not used that season. It was top of the line RR corn so it might be really good.
I planted roundup ready CANNAMAIZE last week. It is 67 days until maturity and so depending on what area of Wisconsin your at, a 70-80 day corn might still reach maturity. In 1991, the best corn ever produced on the farm was planted July 1 into silage corn after alfalfa. The nitrogen credits and timely heat and rain made it explode. A late frost was a blessing. So, another trick for late plantings would be the use of growth promoters and seed starters. For under $10 it's cheap insurance.....
