and oats. Some good perennials are white clover, chicory, and alfalfa. Check out our region-by-region guide to help identify the best food-plot seeds for your area.

Do Sow Your Oats If you plant clover in spring ... You can buy a fake tree and put it in the middle of your food plot to encourage bucks to scrape underneath it. Or you can save both time and ...

Maybe. Maybe not. One of the keys to a highly successful food plot is planting forage varieties that are intended to grow in your region. Some varieties of oats, for example, are more tolerant of cold ...

Another popular preseason ploy for success is planting supplemental food plots using cereal rains and legumes. Oats, wheat, Elbon rye, clover and Austrian winter peas are among the most popular ...

When food plots work, however ... Small grains such as oats, wheat and rye should be planted in September to be ready by opening day. If planting clovers to provide protein in the spring, those ...

Food plots are also another effective option for ... The taller stuff that you're seeing here are actually oats--that was planted as a cover crop. What we have growing underneath is white clover ...

This food plot of oats and annual clover was planted in mid-August after a dry summer and in one month looked like this. Even during dry summers, usually adequate rain falls in August and ...