The last of our summer food plots have been planted. I finished this acre and a half planting of soybeans and sunn hemp last week. You know about soybeans but you might not know about Sunn Hemp.
Sunn Hemp is a new crop we are trying this year in our food plots and as a summer cover crop. The seed look like small butter-bean seed (above). Everything I have read about it is positive: 1. It adds up to 5000 pounds of organic matter to the acre. 2. It can add up to 120 pounds of nitrogen to the acre, 10 pounds of phosphorus, and 80 pounds of potash. 3. It grows in a soil pH of 5-7. 4. The plant foliage has about 30% protein. 5. You will not have to add fertilizer to your fall plantings. 6. Deer love it.
This all sounded good to us so we decided to try it this year.
This field has grown to about 4 feet. It is at our house and we are using it as a cover crop for strawberries.
In this field the tallest plant is about 12 inches. It is in one of our wildlife openings. We planted about an acre and a half here and the deer have mowed it down. This is what most of our plots look like. We will see what 30% protein will do for our deer herd.
This plot has done the best. In the winter we had seven different bucks photographed here.
For more information go to this website: http://www.petcherseeds.com/about-sunn-hemp/sunn-hemp-for-deer/33-2/
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