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Im interested in making some summer food plots, what would be a good choice and when do i plant it? Mostly planting for the deer. Want something that comes up anually.

annuals are hard to come by for summer, some reseeding soybean varieties are out there (quail haven), that do come back somewhat, but not as well as replanting every year. Your best bet on summer crops are some type of bean/pea or vetch.

I'll help you with yours ifn you help me with mine

iron and clay cowpeas, non-round-up soybeans, and a non-round-up corn..

i wuold go with a 90 day and 110-120 corn, and a group 4, group 5, and group 6 soybean.. go with two of these and the cowpeas.. the bean and peas produce nitrogen to feed the corn..

biologic has something similar to this called BioMaxx but is in limited in supply.

for a simple mix that easy to care for use round-ready corn and beans and forget the peas..

you still need to fertilize the corn, the beans and peas produce nitrogen for themselves, not other plants

Soybeans will only fix nitrogen for themselves in a given year. If you till the leftover plant material into the soil in the fall, the remaining nitrogen in the plant will breakdown into the soil and some of it will become available. But not enough to provide the corn with enough N for the entire year. Additional N will be needed for the corn. I would lean toward the late season forage soybeans for deer in MG 6 or 7. Forage soybeans are bred for leaf and stalk biomass. The late season soybeans will stay green until frost. Mature soybean plants prior to frost are often overlooked by deer because everything else is still green.

Other than cost, is there any reason not to go with the round up varities. It sure makes it easier to keep the johnson grass from taking over the corn and soybeans.

Bent barrel I would say that it just depends on how much variety you want in you plots. I like to plant peas, clover, along with soybeans and corn. In my situation it wouldn't be practical to use roundup ready beans, but if all your going to plant is beans or corn then I would say go with it, but I'm not sure if they offer any forage type soybeans w/ RR which is what you would probably want to plant.

My father in law was a soybean breeder and so is my wife. We developed several RR forage soybeans that range in maturity from 5.5 to 7.5. They will produce twice as much biomass(green matter) as commercial RR cultivars and stay green through frost. Hutchison soybean which is non-RR is commonly sold as a deer soybean and has a maturity of 5.3.

Soybean man you don't know where we could get some of these forage beans, or atleast the names of some varieties do you?

Call Steve Payne 870-363-3806 at Buck Island Seed in Tunica.