RE: Early Turkey food plot
I agree with the chufa and clover. I plant in different sections of my ranch, clover, chufa, forage hay, and knoda oats. The clover and chufa endulges the appetite, and the oats give them seed and camoflage. Ever since I sectioned plots for the turkey and quail, I have had the best tasting turkey and quail. They really respond to crimson clover seed, since it is very attractive and has higher protein. I also plant buckwheat, which the turkeys like rumaging through, and nest in. The quail, on the other hand, love the buckwheat to pick through. Theres nothing like introducing a healthier enviroment for the birds so in return if you hunt, then you can harvest a bird that you can sya you improved by diet and enviroment. I also will plant wildflowers bordering the plots, because this will bring in beneficial insects and damaging insects, which in turn the turkeys will eat alot of the insects that they prefer.