What type of soybean and clover are best for whitetail food plots?
Filed under: Ask Grant, Food Plots
I love the show and everything you do to help hunters and wildlife managers with our way of life. What is your favorite type of Eagle Seed bean? I used Eagle Seed Wildlife Managers Mix last year and it work great. I was wondering which type has the best browsing tolerance and which type produces the most pods?
What is your favorite clover type? I am trying to figure out what would work best in my area, after a proper soil test and working the ground as needed.
What do you think would be the best fruit trees to plant for the deer? I started about ten trees (mostly apple with a few pear trees) a couple years ago.
Thank you for your time and help in getting me and others on the right track.
God Bless,
Chad (central Pennsylvania)
Chad,
Thank you for your kind words! There is a very detailed explanation of each variety of Eagle Seed beans on their website. I use both Large Lad and Big Fellow per the recommendations on their site. There are several good varieties of both white and red clovers. I like clover varieties that put more energy into producing forage than stems.
Deer usually readily use the fruit from both apple and pear trees. In fact, they readily consume most fruit that they have had experience consuming in the past. Deer often take some time to learn to eat cultivars of fruit that they haven’t been exposed to previously. However, by using different varieties of fruit, the tree plot may remain productive and attractive longer than when limiting the cultivars to apples and pears.
Growing Deer together,
Grant
