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Farmland had good luck drilling beans into rye and wheat and then just leaving the grain standing.
Kinda looked like the deer didn't like getting their eyes poked on the straw and left it alone.
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That was unintentional but it did have some interesting results ... we no-till drilled soybeans into a stand of ww/rye in April so the ww/rye would be sort of a cover crop for the young beans and maybe take some of the grazing pressure. We planned to apply roundup in May/June but the rye kept growing, suppressed most of the weed competition and developed seed heads. As the rye matured and died off, the beans kept growing but where not grazed as heavily as an adjacent field of pure soybeans. In late August we planned to disk the field and broadcast brassicas but the rye had reseeded itself and the beans looked pretty good so we just left it alone. It's been a great draw this fall with a fresh carpet of rye and an overstory of beans. It made a cheap, effective foodplot for us. No hebicide, no fertilizer, just one pass with the no-till drill this spring.
One of my favorite foodplots is 50# winter wheat, 50# rye, and 40# Austrian Winter Peas per acre ... no-tilled. We usually drill this mix into standing soybeans in late August. Let it grow the next spring, disk it up again in August, and broadcast brassicas after disking. The second fall you have a great mix of wheat, rye, peas, and brassicas ... if your foodplots are on a budget like ours, this mix makes a cheap plot that deer love and you can get at least two years out of with minimal expense. From my experience deer are attracted to this mix from September through the following April.