Buck'N Wildlife™ Mixes
Our Gobbler's Grub™ mixture brings two different red clovers, two white clovers and chicory together to create an awesome perennial food plot! This mix is easy to establish and is designed to last several seasons. It can handle low light pretty well, making this mix great for field edges, and hidey-holes!
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Dates: Frost seed Feb - March, or plant March - May 1 or Aug 15 - Sep 15
Rate: 5#/acre for overseeding, 8-10#/acre for a new stand.
Method: broadcast or drill 1/4" - 1/2" deep
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Available in 5# or 25# bags
Our most popular fall blend for a reason, Buck'N Crazy® can handle most conditions. This diverse mix contains at least eight species, including cereal rye, oats, turnips, radish, clovers, peas, and brassicas! This mix can be drilled or broadcast. The brassica species will winter kill, but the peas, clover and rye will provide spring forage too!
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Dates: July 15 - Sep 15
Rate: 50#/acre
Method: broadcast or drill 1/4" - 1/2" deep
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Available in 25# bags
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Our newest mix continues to gain fans! Buck'N Cover® was released in 2021 and has had a couple tweaks to make it even better for today! This mix is designed to offer privacy cover that lasts late into winter. It is a summer annual mix, meaning it should be planted in early summer, and it will winterkill with frost, but should stand until January or February! Contains millets, egyptian wheat, forage sorghum and sunn hemp.
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Dates: May 15 - Aug 1
Rate: 10-15#/acre
Method: PLANT - 1" - 1.5" deep
Fertilizer: Needs 100#+ nitrogen
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Available in 10# bags
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Fall Feast is designed to thrive in areas of full sunlight! This brassica only mix features turnips and hybrid brassicas to offer amazingly lush greens late into season. This mix offers great attraction, and ease of establishment. Can also be used to top-dress grains.
Dates: July 15 - Sep 1
Rate: 5# for overseeding, 8-10# for a new stand.
Method: broadcast or drill 1/4" - 1/2" deep
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Available in 5# or 25# bags
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Sweet Treat is a mixture of brassicas, including sugar beets and white clover. It can handle full sun to partial shade and will offer a high sugar content to provide energy and attraction long after a killing frost. The white clover will come back the following spring to help keep weeds out, and wildlife interested!
Dates: July 15 - Sep 1
Rate: 5# for overseeding, 8-10# for a new stand.
Method: broadcast or drill 1/4" - 1/2" deep
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Available in 5# or 25# bags
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Pollinator’s Special is a mixture of multiple red and white clovers, as well as crimson and sweet yellow blossom clover. In addition, this mix contains other attractive flowering species such as phacelia! This mix is designed to be easy to establish and attractive to both bees and butterflies!
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Dates: Feb 15 - May 1
Rate: 5# for overseeding, 8-10# for a new stand.
Method: broadcast or drill 1/4" deep
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Available in 5#
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Individual Food Plot Species
Please note, most species have a five pound minimum; however, grains are sold only by the bag.
This mixture of annual, biennial and perennial blooming species can add color to lawns or field borders! Prairie Flower Medley is a great alternative to mowing!
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Dates: Frost seed Feb - March, or plant March - May 1 or Aug 15 - Sep 15
Rate: 5#/acre for overseeding, 8-10#/acre for a new stand.
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Method: broadcast or drill 1/4" - 1/2" deep
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Available by the pounds
Purple top turnips provide not only above ground forage throughout the season, but also develop a below ground tuber that is attractive to wildlife, especially after killing frosts. Turnips can be seeded alone, over a row crop (such as soybeans) or in a mixture.
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Dates: July 15 - Sep 1
Rate: 6-8#/acre
Method: broadcast or drill 1/4" deep
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Available in 5# or 50# bags
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Dwarf Essex Rape is known for its leafy foliage that is easy to establish. It produces a tap root, but it is rarely consumed. The draw of the DER is the foliage that is more cold hardy than turnips or brassicas. It is great in a mix with grains or other brassicas.
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Dates: July 15 - Sep 1
Rate: 1-3#/acre in a mix
Method: broadcast or drill 1/4" deep
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Kale is known for it’s leafiness that can withstand several frosts. After temperatures cool down, kale remains attractive and palatable better than many other species.
Dates: July 15 - Sep 1
Rate: 1-3#/acre in a mix
Method: broadcast or drill 1/4" deep
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Collards are known for being one of the most cold tolerant brassicas and can often survive until the temperatures drop into the teens. Collards are also one of the most drought hardy brassicas, allowing them to handle summer heat better than other species.
Dates: July 1 - Sep 1
Rate: 1-3#/acre in a mix
Method: broadcast or drill 1/4" deep
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Radishes produce lots of leafy foliage for grazing during the growing season, as well as tubers to be consumed throughout winter. Some individuals feel that turnips are more preferred by the herd in their area, others have success with radish. Sometimes environmental conditions dictate which is preferred any given year.
Dates: July 15 - Sep 1 July 15 - S
Rate: 6-8#/acre mono or 2-4#/acre in a mix
Method: broadcast or drill 1/4" deep
Available in 5# or 50# bags
Sunflowers are very beneficial to soil health and attractive to pollinators in addition to attracting wildlife. Deer prefer immature sunflowers, and game birds prefer mature sunflowers. Peredovikes will reach full maturity in approximately 80-90 days from planting.
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Dates: May 15 - August 1ly 15 - S
Rate: 15-25#/acre
Method: drill or plant 1" - 1.5" deep
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Available in 10# or 50# bags
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Clearfield Sunflowers give growers an in-season weed control option. CLEARFIELD SUNFLOWERS ARE NOT GLYPHOSATE TOLERANT! Instead, they are able to be sprayed with Beyond® Herbicide, which is available online or at many ag retailers.
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Dates: May 15 - August 1ly 15 - S
Rate: 25,000 seeds/acre
Method: drill or plant 1" - 1.5" deep
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Available in 25# or half bags
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Oats can be spring planted to provide spring forage and to help suppress weeds throughout the summer if desired. Also, they can be planted in late July - early fall to offer a lush green option in the fall months. Oats can be drilled or broadcasted by themselves or with other species.
Dates: Feb-March or July 15 -Sep 1 15 - S
Rate: 25-50#/ac mix or 100#/ac mono
Method: drill or plant 1" - 1.5" deep
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Cereal Rye is the most winter-hardy species for the Midwest. It almost always overwinters, and actively grows if temperatures are in the upper 30s. Do not plant before September or stand will be very sparse.
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Dates: Sep 1 - Nov 1ly 15 - S
Rate: 25-50#/ac mix or 100# mono
Method: drill or plant 1" - 1.5" deep
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Available in 56# bags
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Japanese Millet is primarily used for wildlife seed and forage. It is one of the most tolerant species of wet feet, and is commonly used on ground too wet for other species. Many hunters look Japanese Millet for its rapid growth in wet conditions and the grain head it produces!
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Planting Rate: 25-45# / acre
Depth: 1" - 1.5"
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Available in 50# bags
German Millet is a popular choice to attract game birds. It is occasionally used for hay, but is mostly utilized for it's rapid growth and quick seed-head production. It can have mature grain in 70 days.
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Planting Rate: 15-20# / acre
Depth: 1"
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Available in 50# bags
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White Proso Millet is a rapidly maturing summer annual that can produce a grain head in approximately 70 days. It offers lots of seed drop to draw in game birds. It can be used as a hay in emergency situations.
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Planting Rate: 20-35# / acre
Depth: 1/2"
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Available in 50# bags
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