Winter Rye For Food Plots

Winter rye is one of the most versatile forages for food plots. When all else fails winter rye is the go to for any food plot. There are five key factors that puts it above the rest.

[Michael]

Great, now I have to clean out the back of my truck. I just over planted Winter Rye on my food plots ( December in SC ) to add more food and because it grows so fast with only 3 week till the end of our season. I am hoping for a nice boost at the end of our season. Rye is not used around my area in the south so we will see how well it will grow next year when I plant in September.
Thanks for the video, now i'm going to wash out my truck.

[mikew]

You are totally rite it's king!, I've been planting winter rye for several years, it's easy to grow weather no till or tilled ground. I also like mixing tillage radish in my rye, has been a killer combo in my plots. Thanks for sharing ur vid, good info!

[theweswillard]

Yeah. Spot on here. underrated. Nice video man.

[jeffpfantz]

Awesome video! I agree with you 100%. I have a smaller property with less than ideal soil conditions and I tried the no till layering of winter rye last fall and it worked amazingly well. Thanks for talking about this!

[richstafford]

100 percent! Not sure why more people don’t take advantage of this amazing seed. I’m glad my neighbors don’t. I used to go 100 percent rye. Since my soil has improved I now plant brassica and or a candy crop next to my rye. After candy crop gets browsed down I overseed with rye. I strongly suggest Jeff Sturgis no till method of using buckwheat planted in summer and rolled over fall annual seed and terminated. Results are as good or better than till methods.

[coolworkgear]

Totally agree. I planted winter Rye south of Tucson Arizona and deer came out of the woodwork from who knows how far. I do have pictures of deer bedded in my grass eating while they are bedded down

[mabdala]

Tritical, winter wheat, and winter rye are my favorites

[joeystalin]

You are echoing Jeff Sturgis (@ Whitetail habitat solutions). But thank you for the sound advice and concise presentation. Subscribed. Keep up the good content!

[coreylundeen]

Totally agree. I tried a rye crimson clover radish blend last year for the first time and deer loved it. It's much more tolerant to heavy browsing than anything else. I'm in northern Minnesota.

[stevenlaing]

No till going try it out, thought needed grain drill to plant

[Brandonplus]

I just disk up 1/4 acre today and put out about 25lbs of rye. I'm tired of the Throw n Gro plots not coming up because we're too warm in South TX til December. I see people say rye is worthless and deer don't eat it but I'm gonna try it because I know rye comes up easy and thick.

[jamesd]

I was hoping you covered whether it is drought tolerant. I'm in Wyoming prairie country.

[robertpage]

How much heat will Rey take I am in east Texas just planted 100 lb

[markc]

How do you make sure your getting winter rye and not rye grass? Thanks. Enjoyed the video

[gsquared]

I prefer mix wheat and rye, about 2:1 as wheat is much more attractive. Rye is there for soil improvement, wheat there for attraction. Rye by itself was a poor to fair attractant. My soil is decent though.

[jamesd]

What about arid country like Wyoming? How much rain does it need? I have plenty of alfalfa, but I need a winter food source. We only got one or two significant rains this summer. The only time we get decent precipitation is early spring but it's too early to seed winter rye.

[mr.skeptical]

I heard 19-19-19 fert. was best, wat do u think

[tlp_gaming]

Where can you get winter rye in bulk? And what do you usually pay for 100lbs. Thanks!

[travissmith-wznc]

You can put down red, white clover, peas diakon radish and buckwheat late July then broadcast 100 lbs of rye in mid August and again mid September

[ubasatrained]

When do you plant rye grain for deer season?