JoshAnderson
Yearling... With promise
I'm thinking of planting sugarbeets next year for a food plot. Does anyone know how much an acre seed would be? And if there's anywhere to get roundup ready seed?
RR sugarbeets
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S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
Find an area that plants a lot of them and go knock on some doors. Good Luck
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farmlegend
5 year old buck +
I planted RR sugar beets five consecutive years (2014-2018) back when I had a source(which has since dried up).
Observations:
For me, mature sugar beets were the most powerful deer draw I've experienced in 25 years of foodplotting. I have fussy deer, and they went nuts for the sugar beets - at least when they grew well.
It's important not to over-seed sugar beets; they don't like being crowded. RR soybeans make for a wonderful companion in a mix, just make sure not to seed too heavily. The soys will take browse pressure completely off the sugar beets while they are growing.
Sugar beets are a bit slow to emerge, in my experience. When planted with soys, the soys will be everywhere before the sugar beets make an appearance.
A spray, broadcast, mow, and cultipack methodology into a plot with weeds/grasses resulted in a complete failure both times I attempted it. The successful plantings of sugar beets I had were all tilled, covered, and cultipacked, with a glyphosate application roughly 4-5 weeks after planting.
Observations:
For me, mature sugar beets were the most powerful deer draw I've experienced in 25 years of foodplotting. I have fussy deer, and they went nuts for the sugar beets - at least when they grew well.
It's important not to over-seed sugar beets; they don't like being crowded. RR soybeans make for a wonderful companion in a mix, just make sure not to seed too heavily. The soys will take browse pressure completely off the sugar beets while they are growing.
Sugar beets are a bit slow to emerge, in my experience. When planted with soys, the soys will be everywhere before the sugar beets make an appearance.
A spray, broadcast, mow, and cultipack methodology into a plot with weeds/grasses resulted in a complete failure both times I attempted it. The successful plantings of sugar beets I had were all tilled, covered, and cultipacked, with a glyphosate application roughly 4-5 weeks after planting.
