My buddy and I were talking about what to plant this year. Here is the run down. We planted several fields in WMS Alabama blend last year. The rest just got sowed your traditional way like most clubs do( Throw out some buck blend and a bag of 13-13-13) Mind you this is in Winston County, private leased land inside of Bankhead so soil quality is pretty poor. I checked the ph on the fields and was shocked that most were perfect neutral or slightly acidic. 6-7. The WMS made much better (prettier) fields and the deer seemed to hit them pretty well early on. Later in the season however it seems like the deer dont like it very much. They grow up to the point I would almost call them getting over grown. Granted we do have low deer herd numbers. Our debate is are we wasting money. We are talking about going back to a co-op buck blend and adding Durano clover. I tested a couple spots with Durano and it did pretty well until they logged most of the areas where I sowed it and destroyed our fields. For comparison one of our areas was not clear-cut and I sowed a long strip in Durano 2 springs ago. When I bushhogged the fields last week the clover looked good. I have noticed at my house the deer eat the WMS very well early then by spring its waist deep. I have very low deer numbers though. We saw similar on the last lease we had near Bankhead, tall "overgrown" fields that the deer didnt seem attracted to. I know deer have different preferences in different areas. Some things guys will swear by and others say their deer wont touch it. Anyways do you guys have any thoughts?

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