It's been tough the last couple falls, with rain not coming early enough for me to have a good stand of brassicas. Also with the really cold weather we had a couple seasons ago, I switched to planting cereal rye heavily. It bounces back quickly, and is more cold tolerant and the deer like it. I will put some brassica's in it, and some sort of an annual clover, like crimson if I can get it, or arrowleaf, which is double the price of crimson.
I like Whitetail clover, or Fusion, although broadleaf control with Fusion can be tough, due to herbicide killing the chicory. I will plant winter wheat on plots I disk, if I am not disking them, then only cereal rye.
What I have shifted focus on is ensuring I have something growning well coming out of the rut and into early preggo times. I am going to plant some barduro clover this fall, and also some deer vetch.
Then in the spring, I try to get out early and plant peas and beans. I like lab lab alot. Eagle Soybeans are good. I am also going to plant a pure stand of sunn hemp. If I can get that up, the deer will hammer it.
