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VERY wet food plot- what will live? #1025682
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We've got a field that stays wet about 8 months of the year. This time of year it can be disced and we can plant at a normal fall time, but come January it will be saturated. What cool season fields do best with constant moisture? (If any)

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1025707
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Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1025716
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Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1025729
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That's an interesting thought. I don't even know if I could find that anywhere near my area. Are there even any rice farmers in the whole state?

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1025740
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We had a place in the river swamp several years ago and we tried clover and some cereal grains, but nothing worked.

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1025745
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I was thinking I might try soybeans and let them grow in the warm season and leave em for fall/winter. That's my only thought so far.

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1025759
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Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1025767
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If the field is big enough, and gets enough sunlight......

Try a Summer planting of Tropical Corn And leave it standing. Might can top sow some rye grass around bare, or knocked down, places that Fall.

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1025797
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rice, millet, basically anything people plant for ducks


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Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1025866
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Ben,

Our plots stay wet just like you're talking about. We have luck with normal food plantings. Last year we started planting WMS Deer Magnet with 25 lbs/acre of 227 Coker Oats and top sown with turnips. We had a great stand last year. We will continue to use this recipe.


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Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1025872
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Thanks, Brad. I'll look at those. I know I can get that seed because we get our seed from the same store! This field has the potential to be a "money plot" if we can get something to draw them in. Good cover around.

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1025895
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Rice isn't cool season.

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1026277
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Standing water or just wet soil? I don't think there is any cereal grain that will grow in completely saturated soil that stays that way.

Why not go in now and plow a ditch through the plot so it will drain? Get a transit, find the lowest path and plow a ditch with turning plow.


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Originally Posted By: FurFlyin
Standing water or just wet soil? I don't think there is any cereal grain that will grow in completely saturated soil that stays that way.

Why not go in now and plow a ditch through the plot so it will drain? Get a transit, find the lowest path and plow a ditch with turning plow.


It's the sort of area near a big creek where the water table is only a few feet below the ground in summer and rises in the winter. We've tried to dig spots for fruit trees and it's like trying to dig a hole in the sand too close to the ocean, it just slowly fills in with water.

It's not a swamp or anything, just a low lying area with thick poorly drained soils.

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1026291
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Originally Posted By: Remington270
Originally Posted By: FurFlyin
Standing water or just wet soil? I don't think there is any cereal grain that will grow in completely saturated soil that stays that way.

Why not go in now and plow a ditch through the plot so it will drain? Get a transit, find the lowest path and plow a ditch with turning plow.


It's the sort of area near a big creek where the water table is only a few feet below the ground in summer and rises in the winter. We've tried to dig spots for fruit trees and it's like trying to dig a hole in the sand too close to the ocean, it just slowly fills in with water.

It's not a swamp or anything, just a low lying area with thick poorly drained soils.




Ours is the same way, except we are in a swamp. Have y'all had problems with normal food plot mixes there before?


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Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: N2TRKYS] #1026388
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Have you tried Ladino Clover ?


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Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1026419
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We haven't tried any clover. Last year we did just a wheat/oats mix and I think it did well at first, but when it got real wet it sort of petered out.

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1026504
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I've had good results with rye grain on a 3ac power line plot that stays wet/holds water most of hunting season. This year I'm thinking about planting the middle of the plot with Biologic Maximum and the outsides with a pure rye grain stand. I've been told that the Maximum blend does very well in wet/moist soil.

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1027602
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Cereal rye and clover should do well. They say only to plant brassica's in well drained soils.

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