10 Reasons To Plant Cereal Rye In Your Food Plots
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2022
- Cereal rye or what's sometimes referred to as rye grain or field rye is one of the best crops to add to your food plots. This annual winter cover crop has many benefits and is a great seed for both experienced food plotters along with those planting their first plot. In this video we will give you 10 Reasons To Plant Cereal Rye In Your Food Plots!
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I love that the family joins in!
They love it! My son is always "making new deer trails" :)
I believe you pretty much nailed it. Listing all the good benefits of planting rye. Thank you very much and keep up the good content
Thanks Max! I appreciate it! Good luck this season!
Great to see the next generation getting involved. We need new land managers and hunters.Awesome stuff.
They love helping, especially when it comes to throwing down seeds. Digging the water holes not so much haha but food plots are a family favorite.
Love the video of kids throwing cereal rye, I will have my kids do that next season
planted 100lbs today. Hoping to help surpress weeds for next year!!
Great video!!
Nice! It should do a good job with weed suppression. 100lbs / acre seems to be just right for the seeding rate.
Great video. It’s nice to see you let your kids help. I really enjoy your content.
Thanks Greg! I'll always let them help as long as they want to. Just need to continue to make it fun and try to build on their curiosity.
I tried something new this year and it worked very well. The first week of January here in Virginia we had 3 days of 60 degree weather. I had 56 pounds of winter rye and broadcast it into a food plot that had several bare spots. It germinated and is doing very well. I've never tried planting anything past October before. Our deer 🦌 season was over the first week of January. I just wanted to help them get through the winter.
That's awesome! Rye is a pretty versatile seed. There are guys that plant it throughout the hunting season to always have that new / young growth. I'm your deer are thanking you for that extra food heading into winter.
Thanks for sharing your success story!
Great video buddy,very informative,rye is awesome,such an easy seed to grow,more people should use it,the deer absolutely love it
Thanks Scott! So many benefits to adding rye to the food plot mix.
Got mine spread before the rain. Good to see the kids out with you. Good luck on the new property.
Nice!! The rain should do the trick! Nothing to do now but wait. Good luck this season Kevin!
lol... like the last one best...good stuff
a very informative video...Thank you!!
Thanks Brad! Appreciate it!
Thanks for the video. I just put down 150 lbs, of rye before yesterdays rains. Probably going to wait another couple of weeks and another 100 lbs to get a little layering action to keep it tender for the deer. Getting lots of deer action on the plots even before the rye, hopefully this will help keep them from eating them all down to the ground!
That's awesome Larry! I can't wait to get a few pictures from you this coming season!
Love the video! All great points. Im in mid-michigan and im thinking about spreading rye tomorrow before the rain comes friday. Im putting it in plot that had brassicas this past fall thats all bare soil now. Is this a waste of time? Thinking it could help suppress weeds and retain moisture for planting this fall. Thoughts?
Great video, we planted winter rye this year and wanna start going no- till.
Thanks! Rye is a great cover crop to transition your plots into a no till rotation. Keep an eye on the plot in mid-late May to see when you need to broadcast the summer cover crop and terminate the rye.
@@whitetailevolution can you plant anything into the rye?? Like brassica, beans, peas?
Awesome video man, Very educating for a newer food plotter. I was wondering, one of my brassica plots didnt come up worth a darn. I think it was due to the crazy amounts of rain we got these past 2 months here in Michigan. So I wanted to salvage it and planter rye like you mentioned. Next year I want to try that brassica planting again so what would you recommend I do with the rye? Spray it? Let it grow and still plant the Brassica with it? Thank you!
Great video. Winter rye has changed my life lol
Been planting rye for 5 years now.
Great video.
Thank you!
Rye has always done great in my plots, but giving wheat a try this year in NC to see how it fairs. Good luck this season.
Nothing wrong will experimenting! Wheat should draw them in as well. Good luck this season!
I have had difficulty in terminating WR and have been planting WW instead. WR can especially difficult to terminate if you let it get little ahead of you in the spring due to time limitations. I plant beardless WW, as the deer seem to prefer it over the bearded WW. I have had much better success in terminating it and the deer seem to love it. Just my experience over the years. Bob
Thanks for the suggestion Bob! When we seed the rye as heavy as we do, we don't want it to go to seed or the volunteer rye will come in way too thick. So like you said, if you let it get ahead of you, or don't have time to terminate in late spring, it could take over the plot. For me, I either smash it down or mow it around memorial day and haven't had an issue with killing the existing stand.
Great...thanks for the reply. As I said we have had good luck with beardless WW.
Yeah great to see kids involved. I hunt with guys that never bring their kids.
Wouldn't do it any other way. A few spots might get overseeded but that's ok, making memories and having fun is what this is all about.
I’m planting clover in a new plot and it’s small .30 acres. It gets heavy use by deer and they destroyed my clover last year. I’m hoping to plant the clover in the next few weeks and want to use cereal rye as a nurse crop. When should I plant it after the clover and when should a crush it once it starts growing? I’d like to have this up and going in the next month or two max.
I plan on putting down 150lbs per acre this yr. May also blend in winter wheat as part of that lbs. Curious on thoughts there. Good videos.
I like it. Adding diversity is always a good thing. From my personal observations, wheat seems to be slightly more attractive. However wheat won't get as tall as rye in the spring and will go to seed at a different time, so depending on your plan for terminating the stand just a few things to take note of. Another grain to look into is triticale if they have it at the local grain mill.
I have a timber property in south Georgia. Would you recommend rye there? I don’t have any heavy equipment to do any real nice food plots but I’m looking for something as a quick fix. This sounds like it could be my best option.
If you have a location for a food plot and are looking for something to plant, absolutely! Still need to make sure you're getting sunlight and moisture. But rye is a good option.
Cedar springs mill has it for $15. They're pretty solid for things youll need locally. How's the local herd on the new place? Any B roll from it coming soon? Maybe a hitlist?
Will the b roll ever be updated?!?!
Dang that's cheap! I'll have to go there next year. As far as the local herd at the new place, let's just say it's going to be a rebuilding year haha. We've got a doe and her fawn and a spike coming in fairly consistency. Other than that, I haven't seen much on the cameras (10). This property will mostly start like the last one did, a lot of habitat work without a lot of pulling the trigger. But that's ok, will be much more rewarding when everything comes together. We're lucky in that we have another property that we've worked on for years and has another nice crop of bucks this year.
Ha hey now! The hunting season is the only time to capture hunting B-Roll. So hopefully this year we'll be able to get some more footage.
What kind of fertilize and how much per acre do u use.
Curious your thoughts on wheat vs rye?
Both are great additions to your fall food plot. There are a lot of small differences but to me the biggest one is with the amount of biomass cereal rye puts on the following season. They are both attractive throughout the hunting season and you could definitely seed both within your plot, but I'll always make sure to seed rye because I really like how thick / tall rye gets the next year.
On my 4th layer of rye this yr since August 1st. Not enough rain to germinate any meaningful seed.
It's been really dry since Labor Day. I put some down and we got a little rain but definitely could use some more. Fingers crossed your get some and your rye comes in!
Thanks but how many times I can a fodder out of Rye?
Not 100% sure but I've read 50 pounds of whole grain can be transformed into as much as 300 pounds of fodder. We don't use it for our chickens but you could!
Winter rye?
How muck for 1 acre ?
What shirt are you wearing?
Great question!
I honestly have no idea. Wore it in the first video and now it's kind've a joke to keep wearing it in every video. I'll rip it one of these days and have to find something else haha.
My deer do not eat it. Nice an green. Goes unused.
They are focusing on something else right now. Maybe acorns? crop fields? Once everything else goes dormant / gets cut, the deer should move into the rye plots.
Good points and good video! Cereal rye is a great food plot. Liked and subscribed. I’ve got a food plot channel, check it out if you get time.
Thank you! I will do that for sure :)
Is he growing rye for the deers?😂