Along with soybeans and cowpeas, lablab is one of the primary forage legumes planted for deer each spring and summer – and for good reason. Lablab (Lablab purpureus) is a warm-season annual legume that originated…
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Food Plot Species Profile: Buckwheat
Jan 14, 2015Ryan Basinger
Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) is a warm-season annual forb that can provide several benefits to your whitetail food plot program. However, it is not a legume, as are some of the more commonly planted summer deer forages,…
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Food Plot Species Profile: Berseem Clover
Sep 19, 2014Ryan Basinger
One of the primary reasons berseem clover hasn’t gained much traction since its introduction to the U.S. in 1896 is that it lacks winter hardiness. Likewise, its use as a deer forage has been limited….
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Food Plot Species Profile: Red Clover
Jun 30, 2014Ryan Basinger
If you don’t have red clover growing in some of your food plots, let me explain why you should. Dr. Craig Harper and I examined red clover in research plots in Tennessee for several years. We…
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Food Plot Species Profile: Iron Clay Cowpeas
May 2, 2014Ryan Basinger
Iron-clay cowpeas are one of my all-time favorite summer forages for deer. I have probably planted more acres in cowpeas during summer than any other species. Cowpeas are relatively inexpensive, easy to establish and manage,…
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Food Plot Species Profile: Soybeans
Jan 24, 2014Ryan Basinger
Soybeans (Glycine max) are a warm-season annual legume and perhaps the most preferred summer forage for white-tailed deer. They are extremely nutritious, containing upwards of 25 to 30 percent crude protein in fields with good…
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Food Plot Species Profile: Austrian Winter Peas
Jul 5, 2013Bob Westerfield
Austrian winter peas are a cool-season annual legume that can produce a great food plot on their own or as an addition to a seed mixture planted in the fall to attract deer. Easy to…
