What would you do if you knew exactly when deer would be feeding in your foodplot? The obvious answer is HUNT IT! Here's a tip for your next food plot that will help you hunt it when it's hot-turnips. Deer will browse in a turnip plot as it grows, but when the temperature drops below freezing, causing sugar to move from the roots to the leaves, it essentially becomes deer candy. It will be a preferred food, and you can bet the deer will be hammering it.
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This can be convenient for shotgun hunters (at least in central Illinois), because the weather usually turns these plants into deer candy in the week or two leading up to the first shotgun season. The pictures here are from a few of our 1/4 acre test plots. As you can see, they are growing quite nicely. We've only had one or two nights below freezing, so the plots are still intact. We'll get some more pictures up after several frosts and show you how much the deer like them.
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In a cooler climate, turnips are a great option for archers. Find a secluded location or a natural travel corridor, plant two food plots a few hundred yards away from each other, and set a stand up between them. Then sit back and wait until it starts to freeze at night. In areas where freezing temperatures often coincide with the rut, turnips are dynamite. When bucks start searching for does, they will usually take the easiest route from one feeding area to the next. That's where your stand should be. The key is making your plots the right distance apart. You want them close enough that a searching buck will naturally move from one to the other, but far enough apart that you can reach your stand without spooking any deer that are feeding in the plots.
We carry a full line of food plot seeds, including Biologic Maximum Brasicus and Turnips. Check out the following link: http://www.biologicfoodplotseed.com/MAXIMUM.html for more information.
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