I'll tell you Devil, I made a lot of mistakes the first couple of years - not checking the pH, planting the wrong stuff at the wrong time, planting seed too deep, etc. For example, one fall I planted a plot in field turnips. Man, I got a great crop - lush greens 18" high that the deer would not touch. It turns out turnip greens are bitter until subjected to low temperatures that we were not getting. I can get rye grass to grow like crazy, but found deer will walk across a rye grass field on their way tothewheat plot a couple of hundred yards away.

Tried a couple of those expensive "deer plot" mixes like Plot Spike and Tecomate and found they were not nearly worth the money and no better than (really not as good as) plain old pasture wheat. Wheat is cheap, dependable, cold hardy, and reasonably drought resistant. The local "feed & seed" store is the best and cheapest place to get seed. I use6-24-24 fertilizer from a local F&S.

Don't know about your local climate, but oats and wheat are strictly a fall crop around here.

I learned a lot by going to the LSU Ag Center web site, and the Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA.com)site (http://www.qdma.com/articles/list_articles.asp?id=2). I suggest you search local university and agriculture center web sites for what varieties grow best in your region.