CORN AND SOY BEANS


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Re: CORN AND SOY BEANS

Actually one food plot company just released a new blend this year that contains both roundup ready (RR) soybeans and RR corn. I have planted the two together but with other seeds also.

soybeans--great spring summer forage

corn--high carb seed and highly attractive.

kind of a neat theory if you use the RR variety---and if not over harvested could be a year round food plot with easy weed control

todd

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Re: CORN AND SOY BEANS

Another good thing about it is the fact that corn is a heavy nitrogen user, and beans, being a legume, produce nitrogen naturally in their roots, ergo, the beans feed the corn while growing. cool.gif

I don't know about it being a year round food source though. I thought all varieties of corn and beans were annuals. confused.gifconfused.gif

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I don't know about it being a year round food source though. I thought all varieties of corn and beans were annuals. confused.gifconfused.gif

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I didn't mean to imply that it was a perennial but the deer can feed all year on this plot. They can feed on the soybean forage in the spring and summer, the actual soybeans in the fall, and the corn (seed) all fall and winter---thus (if the plot is large enough) then they can feed on the plot all year!

todd

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I don't know about it being a year round food source though. I thought all varieties of corn and beans were annuals. confused.gifconfused.gif

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I didn't mean to imply that it was a perennial but the deer can feed all year on this plot. They can feed on the soybean forage in the spring and summer, the actual soybeans in the fall, and the corn (seed) all fall and winter---thus (if the plot is large enough) then they can feed on the plot all year!

todd

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Had me going there for a bit. Thought you had some kind of supernaturalperennial corn down there in the south. grin.gif

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Re: CORN AND SOY BEANS

There is a two acre plot not to far from where I live on public ground,,,

It has corn planted around the outside and beans inside the corn got attacked first then the beans,,,

but earlier last fall the beans were hit hard that were planted around a 160 acre arrigation pivet of spuds, the headlands were planted into soybeans,, and the whitetail went nuts for them...

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Anybody know what the ratio of corn to soybeans is in the mix?

If the corn is at a lower population than what we plant for regualr cornproduction, say maybe half, it would allow for the beans to receive sunlight.

Also the beans won't fix a real big amount of nitrogen for the corn, but it may help a little.

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