Our Gravel Grain Food Plot Seed Mix is designed for maximum performance in newly-cleared, rocky land or food plots with poor soil conditions. The mixture contains a blend of seeds to help amend the soil, suppress weeds, and provide nutritional benefits to wildlife. With this seed mix, you can create a more hospitable environment for your food plot.
Sunn Hemp is a fast-growing, nitrogen-fixing legume. Sunn Hemp is used for green manure forage, organic soil building and cover crop applications. Sunn Hemp is non seed-bearing in the North American climates. Sunn Hemp provides as much as 2.5 tons per acre of green tonnage. with a maximum of 100 units of Nitrogen fixation per acre in as little as 60 days. It is also known to suppress nematodes.
Porso millet is a warm season annul grass. It is widely adapted across the United States with notable heat and drought tolerance. It has one of the lowest water requirements of the cereal grains and can be a great summer cover crop in dry growing regions. It does not grow well on wet soils due to its shallow root system. Proso millet is a favored food source for bobwhite quail, turkey, pheasants, mourning doves, and song birds.
Forage soybeans are selected for their late season, leafy characteristics. In northern and transitional regions of the United States, Forage soybeans will retain their leaves while other varieties used for grain production will drop their forage and expose the pods. They will provide a lush forage well into the fall or bow hunting season. For Southern regions, we recommend waiting to plant until July or August to maintain this late leafy characteristic.
Buckwheat is a popular all-around warm season annual that has many uses as a food plot crop with an abundance of seeds that appeal to a large number of the wildlife. Buckwheat grows well in almost any soil and is usually planted alone, produces clusters of small white flowers forming triangular shaped black seeds that shatter easily giving access for stalk feeding for smaller birds. Provides good ground cover and the stalks will remain after the seed shatters out thus providing additional cover for smaller wildlife. A great cover crop for enhancing soil, excellent summer food plot forage that is extremely early maturing with seed yields as fast as 7-10 weeks after emergence.
Wild Game Food plot sorghum (or WGF), or milo, is an early-maturing Sorghum seed, reaching mid bloom at about 40 to 50 days after emergence. WGF Sorghum is great for spring and summer food plots for deer, ducks and other game birds. WGF Sorghum is bird-resistant, which keeps migrating flocks of blackbirds from stripping it in late Summer.
Mung beans are a warm-season legume known for their remarkable heat tolerance and drought resistance. They exhibit rapid growth, maturing in just 65 days. One advantage of mung beans over cowpeas is that their seed pods remain intact, unlike cowpeas, making them an excellent source of late-fall protein for grazing livestock or wildlife.
Cowpeas are a warm-season legume used as an added ingredient to spring, summer and fall food plots for wildlife. They are excellent for quail, dove and deer. Cowpeas produce forage in 45 days, and mature seed in 100 days. Cowpeas will produce abundant amounts of organic matter and nitrogen needed to enrich the soil, resists common forms of root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita), and grows well during desert summers with moderate irrigation.
Sunflower seed might be the most popular wildlife attractant. Its black oil seeds are meatier and have higher oil content than other varieties, which attracts game Turkey and Dove as well as deer.