I'm a big fan of food plots. I've been doing it for around 20 years. I think I've tried everything. From my own mixes to every brand out there. I've found many that are good and several that are a joke in my opinion. The best results I've had are with forage oats, whitetail clover, and a mix of soybeans, cowpeas and sorghum.

The oats are very attractive in the early fall and the clover is attractive all year except if it gets knocked back by the weather in July and August which is usually does unless there is a lot of rain like last year. The clover also provides a lot of protein all year and that's real important from Mar-August when antlers are growing and fawns are being born and nursed. The mixture of soybeans, cowpeas and sorghum grow real fast and produces a lot of high protein food in the summer months. This helps out a lot in July and August is the clover is knocked back.

If I could only plant one thing it would be whitetail clover. I've found it can't be beat on my bottom land fields. The deer love it and I usually get 3 or 4 years from a planting.