Before I buy seed this year, what kind of success have you had with the many different brands?

Anyone? Everyone?

Uncle Matt (in IL)

Dekalb lor Asgrow always win the Nat'l Corn growers competition..

Last year was my first planting plots and I had great success with Imperial clover as well as Imperial Powerplant.

My two cents would include a vote for imperial clover or the extreme. I had some lower pH soil that I couldn't get lime to. The Extreme was planted last year in the field and it had deer all over it in the fall. This spring both the imperial clover and extreme are doing well.

It was a good year for all my plots. I have some Imp. clover and alfalfa-rack from the whitetial institite and it's been good for years. I also tried some oats this fall. It worked pretty good to. If I had to pick one I like the impeial clover the best.

I've had the best success over the last 15 years of playing in the dirt with Imperial Whitetail clover.

Brand? I prefer not to pay for "brand" names and espensive advertising and packaging.

clover .... just a mix of ladino, dutch white, and alsike

field corn .... the cheapest RR I can find.

soybeans ... the cheapest RR I can find.

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.