Buck Fest Food Plot Seed Mix

Buck Fest Deer Food Plot Seed is a mix of grass and legumes that provide a tough, durable, high protein grazing mixture to attract and maintain your deer herd. We have chosen only top quality ingredients to create Buck Fest Seed Mix. Buck Fest Seed Mix has the ALL-VANTAGE advanced seed coating system that adheres a rhizobium inoculant directly to the seed to assure that your seed blend establishes easily and grows aggressively by utilizing the full nitrogen fixing potential of the clover and alfalfa varieties we have chosen.

Nine pounds covers approximately 1/2 acre
Eighteen pounds covers approximately 1 acre

Contents:

• 408DP
• Pinnacle Ladino Clover
• Extend Orchardgrass

Buck Fest is our perennial seed mixture of Alfalfa, Clover and Orchard Grass. The benefits of having these three types of seed together are:

• Alfalfa is a deer attracted full of protein with deep set crowns that allow the plant to survive in harsher weather conditions and animal grazing.

• Clover again this is a strong deer attracted, very sweet clover is loved by deer

• Orchard Grass keeps the weeds at bay; it combines great quick plant growth and excellent disease resistance which increase stand persistence

Rough Ridge Alfalfa Selection and Benefits

• Wide, deep-set crowns
• Stands up to wheel traffic pressure
• High yield potential
• Superior winter hardiness and persistence

Our alfalfa has been bred for deep-set crowns with 61% of the crowns 1 inch to 11⁄2 inches below the soil surface. The deep-set crown trait helps insulate the crown in severe winter weather and protect the crown from animal and equipment traffic. This versatile variety is ideal for three to four cut management systems where wheel traffic is a concern, or for intensive wildlife grazing year after year. With high hay yields, great forage quality, and an excellent disease and insect resistance package, our alfalfa selection gives you the flexibility to optimize your deer management decisions.

Rough Ridge Clover Selection and Benefits

• Resistant to leaf diseases and field viruses
• High forage yields
• Ideal for pastures
• Superior persistence
• Excellent seedling vigor
• Aggressive stolon activity
• Drought tolerant
• Widely adapted

Pinnacle is a new ladino clover variety developed for today’s high performance pasture needs. Look for excellent establishment and seeding vigor along with cool season productivity and the aggressive season long growth necessary to maximize grazing. Pinnacle has a very upright growth habit with numerous fine stems and large dark green leaves. This variety was bred for superior persistence and can stand up to leaf disease and virus pressure. Pinnacle is adapted throughout the United States and Canada, wherever ladino clovers are grown.

Rough RidgeExtended Orchard Grass

• Superior yield
• Perfect for alfalfa or clover mixes
• Late maturity
• Increased stand persistence
• Stem Rust resistance
• Excellent plant vigor
• Great palatability and vxery tasty
• Responds very well to irrigation

Grazing

Rotational grazing is preferred for best production, persistence and quality. Fields should be grazed heavily and frequently (every 10 to 12 days) during the rapid spring growth period, but overgrazing should be avoided. Leave about a 3 to 4 inch stubble for quickest recovery. Extend mixes well with other species adapted to intensive grazing

Buck Fest also has the All Vantage coating… now you’re probably asking why that is important to me….

• All Vantage coating allows the seed to hold moisture which allows the seed to germinate faster
• The root system will grow deeper helping with stand establishment
• Coating also protects the seed from fungi
• Maintains high rhizobium numbers next to seed which helps with the seed growth
• Rhizobium is a soil bacterium that forms nodules on the roots of legumes and takes up nitrogen from the atmosphere
• Reduced dust off and complete handling of seed safely
• Improved even flow from your spread
• Less waste because of the highly visible coated seed
• Same seeding rate as conventionally treated seed
• 82-90% germination
• Rough Ridgeuses only the highest quality and grade of seed in our mixtures
• Rough Ridge100%  Product Performance Guarantee

Planting instructions for Buck Fest:

Choose a location that has as much sun as possible, best location will offer 6 hours or more of sun. Soil pH should be between 6.0 and 7.0. It is best to work the soil by conventional farming methods such as rototiller or disk, then firm by rolling. Finally broadcast or rake for good soil contact.

Spring planting is April – May and Fall planting is September.

Comments: We recommend cutting your Buck Fest food plot when it reaches 8 – 12 inches, this will allow the clover to get the sun it needs to grow. You should only have to cut it once a season.

Buck Fest is a perennial mix so you can expect to see growth come back for 5 – 7 years.