SC 4-H Wildlife Food Plot Project

November Newsletter

If you have been taking photos of your plot with a phone, digital camera, or game camera, please share those images with us! You could see your photos featured in the newsletters and even win a prize!

Top photo: turkeys feeding in Danielle Grabbe's, Lancaster County, plot
Left bottom photo: Danielle Grabbe's seed mix
Right bottom photo: odd signs of life in Zeke & Tater's food plot in Union County

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Happy Thanksgiving from the plot!

While you have your own feast at home for the holiday, have you wondered what your wildlife visitors are feasting on in your plot?

LB Wannamaker's Food Plot Mix is made specially for this project. Below we are going to highlight the ingredients!

Naked Oats
Mr. Wannamaker works closely with NC State University on the development of hull-less, or naked, oats in food plot mixes. This novel oat sheds its fibrous hulls during the harvesting process, thus the hull-less oat grain is higher in protein and energy content relative to its hulled, or covered, counterpart.

Georgia (GA) Gore Wheat
Georgia Gore is a soft red winter wheat released by the University of Georgia’s Agricultural Experiment Station. GA Gore wheat is late-maturing (in the Southeast) and early maturing (in the middle Atlantic Coast). GA Gore Wheat is medium in height, has medium strength straw and offers good yield potential and good milling and baking quality. It has excellent resistance to the local species of Hessian fly, good resistance to current leaf rust, stem rust and septoria glume blotch, and moderate resistance to powdery mildew.

Tillage Radish
Tillage Radish brassica cover crop tubers and taproots reduce compaction and scavenge excess nutrients left in the soil from cash crops. The upper portion of the taproot or tuber can typically grow over 30 inches.
Excellent for reducing inputs, weed suppression, relieving compaction, improving soil fertility and health, and attracting earthworms.

Trophy Rapeseed
Trophy Rapeseed is a brassica that will put on the forage you need for your livestock or deer heard. A deep taproot helps break soil compaction as well as bring up nutrients from deep in the soil profile. With very high winter hardiness it is a mainstay in late season food plots or cover crops for grazing. Bright yellow flowers will attract pollinators if spring planted and allowed to go to seed.

Sounds like quite the salad for wildlife!
Above photo: Zeke & Tater's plot in Union County

Food plot season coincides with hurricane season in South Carolina. Participants are affected differently each year, and this year many of our plots were affected by Tropical Storm Eta in November. Check out this video from Union County!

Food plots can recover from flooding most of the time. If your plot does not recover from a flooding event, don't think the project is over for you! Document the event in your record book and discuss what you do to work around damage.

As always, don't forget to be working on your record books!!!! They will be due online by January 22! If you have questions, utilize the chat feature at the bottom of the Zingbooks website.

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