| Excerpted from: August, 2008 "Quick Hitter Food Plots" By Alan Clemons Research conducted at Ocmulgee Banks |
| Excerpted from: Northern Virginia Daily "Thinking Ahead and Preparing our Food Plots" By Gerald Almy; Hunting and Fishing Editor of Sports Afield Magazine |
| Excerpted from: Arkansas Sportsman "Warm-Weather Deer Management" by Tim Lilley June, 2010 |
| "Eagle Seed forage soybeans are absolutely the best crop I’ve ever planted for deer. They produce literally tons of high quality forage throughout the growing season and can produce huge crops of bean pods for deer to consume during the winter. I use them as a year round food source for deer and other wildlife. The cost per pound of food produced is less than any other crop I’ve tried." |
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| Dr. Woods is a world-renown wildlife biologist and host of growingdeer.tv. His website is a great resource for all things hunting. He has generously allowed us to show a few of his fantastic videos on our site (click on the growingdeer.tv tabs shown right). |
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| Mali Vujanic uses Eagle Seed Wildlife Manager's Mix RRTM with corn. Mali is a professional wildlife food-plot consultant and owner of Outdoor Essentials, LLC. |
| Video Courtesy of the Quality Deer Management Association. Manager's Mix RRTM Show Title: Quality Whitetails Television, "Managing for Smaller Properties" Featured on the Outdoor Channel; SPRING 2009 |
The Hunting Grounds:
"Deer Scouting in the
Preseason." 2010 video
"Deer Scouting in the
Preseason." 2010 video
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Over the years, genetic manipulation has turned this high-protein powerhouse into a low-growing, bean-heavy, combine friendly plant. Eagle Seed Company in Weiner, Arkansas, is a family-owned business that has developed three unique cultivars of Roundup Ready soybeans specifically for whitetails. Instead of short and squatty, this company's soybean varieties climb high, spread wide and really put out the leaves. The protein levels -- some leaves tallied 42% in recent tests -- and pure tonnage produced have been outstanding in university trials. Southern Illinois University was able to get 9.6 tons of dry matter per acre, and several farmers reported 14 tons of silage per acre: amazing numbers to say the least. The varieties can be planted in conjuction with other crops, such as corn, or as a stand alone crop. The leaves will die after a few frosts, but the beans -- the plants still produce plenty -- will continue feeding deer into the winter. Two recognized food plot experts, Dr. Grant Woods and Mark Buxton, say these soybeans are the most innovative new food plot plants for whitetails in years. |
| Excerpted from: "Seeds and Supplements" North American Whitetails By J. Guthrie |
| Eagle Seed Forage Soybeans provide an amazing amount of tonnage which provides food for deer. "Deer want the leaves more than the beans, and you can even mix them in with something like milo or corn to create "runner" beans that grow up the stalks and produce a huge volume of food, and with the Roundup Ready corn and beans you get a two-season annual crop." Kinkel has been consulting with a project in central Georgia known as the Ocmulgee Banks, where he's been testing and analyzing the Big Fellow RR beans. "I'm blown away -- some of the plots are producing 14,000 pounds of food per acre, he says. "I've seen their crops grow to six feet tall in poor soils. The growth is so great in these fields that deer are not only feeding in them, but bedding in them as well." Photo of Big Fellow Leaf (left) courtesy of: Arkansas State University Research Farm, 2010 August. |
| Now I think I've finally come upon the best food plot for our deer. Eagle Forage soybeans grow twice as tall as regular soybeans, with much larger leaves. The beans are "Roundup Ready" so weed competition can be controlled. Most importantly, they've developed soybeans aimed primarily at providing forage with the leaves, not seeds to be harvested in the fall. Big Fellow RR The key advantage is that these beans have a longer growing cycle before they bloom. Even after most soybeans bloom, these can continue growing and producing high-protein forage for deer (or cattle) for up to six weeks longer. In fact, these soybeans grow so tall that deer will not only eat the leaves, but they'll bed down in fields of them. Another great advantage is that they are drought tolerant. Large Lad RR is another soybean offered by Eagle Seed. This is the official soybean of the Mississippi Fisheries and Wildlife Department. It has excellent deer-browsing tolerance and can grow up to 84 inches high. It is also very bushy and is resistant to most foliar diseases, phytophthora root rot, stem canker and several races of nematodes. small game species and quail. One study done in Georgia on the Ocmulgee Banks Farm showed that Eagle Seed soybeans yielded seven tons of forage per acre...this spring after I put in some Big Fellow RR and Large Lad RR soybeans I'll have something substantially green, and high in Its bushy nature makes this an excellent choice for other protein for the local deer to dine on when the clover dries up in early summer." |
| Excerpted from: Quality Whitetails; Quality Deer Management Association Magazine "Secrets to Successful Warm-Season Food Plots" by Brian Sheppard |
| For maximum production and palatability, nothing beats the large-seeded legumes. I have experimented with many forages. Cowpea and Roundup Ready Large Lad forage soybeans are among my favorites because I can grow them in a variety of soil types. |
Photo of two Whitetail Thicket plants during
2010 drought in Arkansas. Notice the
extensive branching and foliage produced.
2010 drought in Arkansas. Notice the
extensive branching and foliage produced.
| Pictured above: Clemson researcher showing the Eagle Seed Forage plots at Clemson University Research Station in South Carolina under dryland conditons, front plots were mowed. |
If you are just starting out with food plots, all of the experts who contributed to this story recommended the same thing -- Roundup Ready forage-variety soybeans. "The emphasis with forage soybeans is on the foliage, not on the bean pods," Sykes said. He and others recommended the soybeans offered by Eagle Seed of Arkansas. |
| Excerpted from: North American Whitetail "North and South Planting the Seed" by Matt Haun Spring 2011; Vol. 30 No. 1 |
| Legumes (broadleaves) are the backbone of any spring food plot plantings... EAGLE SEED SOYBEANS are forage beans that are designed to produce mass quantities of leaves and do so very quickly once they are established. A client of mine had his EAGLE leaves tested last summer by a lab and they tested out at 35% crude protein. There is no other legume that can make those claims. They are also Round-Up Ready making them the go-to seed in areas where summer weeds are a significant problem. |
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| Hot off the Press: Dr. Grant Woods is featured in Feb/March 2012 Issue of North American Hunter. The article is called SUPER SOYBEANS. |
