Mixed Winter Food plots

Does anyone mix their own "batch" of seed for their plots? Here's the idea...I have a 150 acre family farm that has around 40 acres of soybeans right now. The first week of November all the beans will be harvested leaving no winter food.

So, I would like to put out a brassicas/rape/turnip/winter pea blend of seed. Does anyone have a certain # per acre they use of each? I'd be interested in learning what others may blend together to make it more attractive.

 

When I mix my own I use the following.

3# purple top turnip
2# Dwarf Essex Rape
5# Groundhog Radish

This is a per acre mix

 

Where do you buy yours from? Welter's?

 

A local seed store here in Ohio called Merit Seed. Same prices as Welters without the shipping cost.


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Do you treat your seed with anything before planting?

 

Nope, just apply the needed fertilizer for our soil after testing. Mostly use 19-19-19 but a higher Nitrogen fertilizer like Urea would work.


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I'll have to put Nitrogen down for my soil for sure. Thanks for the knowledge.

 

Here is the standard questions anyone should be asked by your seed supplier to give you a chance at success:

1) whats your pH
2) where are you located
3) what type of equipment do you have
4) what was planted on that land previously
5) what type of soil do you have? Clay, loam or sandy?
6) what are your goals?
7) what do u want to plant next year?

Answer these and you will get a detailed plan

otherwise these are 3 products that one can't go wrong with most areas of the USA
winfred brassica...it stays green down to 10 degrees, grows consistenly no matter where i place it and has a great nutrition profile
berseem clover.....i love how it fixated a huge amount of nitrogen, great nutrition and deer love to eat it
daikon radish.....research shows there is NO DIFFERENCE between any of the radish companies and varieties out there. Don't believe me? There is university studies out there and well...they don't sell seed so. I love how radish loosen the soil, scavenges nutrients, grows fast, deer love them and they are cheap.....

but that being said...there isn't anything in the usa that i don't think i've not planted and well.....these are my 3 favorites....

 

Chris I tell people all the time that before you plant any food plot take a soil test. If you have soil like you have that is on the acidic side you have to apply lime to get your soil closer to neutral 6.5 to 6.8. You can buy the best seed and apply the perfect amount of fertilizer, but if you don't have the right ph your not going to have a very good food plot. The right ph is the key to great food plots.
From fall and winter food plot we mix winfred brassica and purple top turnips tighter (2/3 winfred to 1/3 tunrips).

 

Hmm, I really like this combo...I might try it this year.

 

Thanks yall for the info. We have acidic soil here on the farm which i've already applied the proper fert and lime to all plots. Thanks to buckeye I've received in the mail today a simpler mix to his. I tried 3 lbs of each Dwarf Essex Rape, Ground Hog Radish and Purple Top Turnips. After the brassicas have about a week of sprouting I'll come in and over seed with a little bit of clover hoping for a spring crop.

I'm interested to see how this all turns out.