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VERY wet food plot- what will live? #1025682 07/27/14 07:10 AM 07/27/14 07:10 AM
Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 21,786 USA R Remington270 OP Freak of Nature
Remington270 OP Freak of Nature R Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 21,786 USA	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 07/27/14 07:41 AM 07/27/14 07:41 AM
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 7,689 Falkville MTeague 14 point
MTeague 14 point Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 7,689 Falkville	Rye Grass I had much rather be tried by twelve than carried to my grave by six!!!!

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1025716 07/27/14 07:56 AM 07/27/14 07:56 AM
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foldemup 14 point Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 9,979 Hampton Cove	Rice If you want to always win, never play anyone better than you!

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1025729 07/27/14 08:11 AM 07/27/14 08:11 AM
Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 21,786 USA R Remington270 OP Freak of Nature
Remington270 OP Freak of Nature R Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 21,786 USA	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 07/27/14 08:22 AM 07/27/14 08:22 AM
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timbercruiser Freak of Nature T Joined: May 2011 Posts: 20,017 PDL, Fl	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 07/27/14 08:26 AM 07/27/14 08:26 AM
Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 21,786 USA R Remington270 OP Freak of Nature
Remington270 OP Freak of Nature R Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 21,786 USA	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 07/27/14 08:36 AM 07/27/14 08:36 AM
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icducks 8 point Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 2,380 Albertville	Millet. Fins and Feathers www.tackletrap.com

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1025767 07/27/14 08:44 AM 07/27/14 08:44 AM
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Hogwild Booner H Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 12,788 Thomasville, AL	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 07/27/14 09:27 AM 07/27/14 09:27 AM
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tfd1224 14 point Joined: Sep 2012 Posts: 8,456 Harpersville, AL	rice, millet, basically anything people plant for ducks Yeah c�mon. Daniel White

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1025866 07/27/14 10:40 AM 07/27/14 10:40 AM
Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 14,599 Tuscaloosa Co. N N2TRKYS Booner
N2TRKYS Booner N Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 14,599 Tuscaloosa Co.	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. Call me if you want to talk more in depth. 83% of all statistics are made up.

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1025872 07/27/14 10:46 AM 07/27/14 10:46 AM
Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 21,786 USA R Remington270 OP Freak of Nature
Remington270 OP Freak of Nature R Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 21,786 USA	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 07/27/14 10:58 AM 07/27/14 10:58 AM
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jlccoffee 14 point J Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 8,180 Coffee Co, AL	Rice isn't cool season.

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1026277 07/27/14 05:02 PM 07/27/14 05:02 PM
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FurFlyin Freak of Nature Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 39,449 Marshall County	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. If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: FurFlyin] #1026281 07/27/14 05:06 PM 07/27/14 05:06 PM
Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 21,786 USA R Remington270 OP Freak of Nature
Remington270 OP Freak of Nature R Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 21,786 USA	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 07/27/14 05:15 PM 07/27/14 05:15 PM
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N2TRKYS Booner N Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 14,599 Tuscaloosa Co.	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? 83% of all statistics are made up.

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: N2TRKYS] #1026388 07/28/14 01:46 AM 07/28/14 01:46 AM
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k bush 12 point K Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 5,751 Lower AL	Have you tried Ladino Clover ? "Cull" is just another four letter word...

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1026419 07/28/14 02:57 AM 07/28/14 02:57 AM
Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 21,786 USA R Remington270 OP Freak of Nature
Remington270 OP Freak of Nature R Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 21,786 USA	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 07/28/14 04:40 AM 07/28/14 04:40 AM
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270wsm 14 point 2 Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 6,846 Fairhope, AL	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 07/29/14 03:45 AM 07/29/14 03:45 AM
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blumsden 12 point B Joined: Jun 2013 Posts: 5,653 Lincoln, Alabama	Cereal rye and clover should do well. They say only to plant brassica's in well drained soils.

Re: VERY wet food plot- what will live? [Re: Remington270] #1027970 07/29/14 10:17 AM 07/29/14 10:17 AM
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timbercruiser Freak of Nature T Joined: May 2011 Posts: 20,017 PDL, Fl	Is this wet enough for you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ-g11xSuzM&feature=youtu.be

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