I would read up on this to get some basic understanding of what you may want to do at your place.
Whitetail Institute offers some excellent products, expensive seed, but some like the "No Plow" is really not all that bad when you think about it. I've used that, "Imperial Clover" and "Winter Greens". Follow the planting instructions, you can create a nice stand, PH is critical, so is nutrients and weed control.
Spring to early summer, is a good time to provide quality forage, for antler growth, overall health and growth, Fall, it is desirable to have succulent young or some kind of palatable forage, near bedding areas, (well that is an ideal scenario if your land can provide it) My place is set up like that and I have a lot of whitetail traffic, and or repeat customers. You can set things up in a variety of ways, I enjoy doing this and and watching them too, as they benefit from what I have planted. Whitetail Institute also publishes a magazine with some good articles on this, as well as what is illustrated on their website.
Some will say that their products are too expensive and or the same as what your feed store has for clovers, pasture mix etc. each to their own, but I will tell you that I did put in a stand of that imperial clover and it will last every bit of 5 years if you follow planting instructions, maintain the PH, nutrients and mow as required, don't forget weed control, it's aggressive so it kind of shades out most of those weeds, though some grasses may mix in.
There are other less expensive options like what has been mentioned. One that I think works very well and is a high in protein is Oats. Oat grass, when planted in late August, early September, is very palatable, cold weather tolerant, they just chow it right down. One of my stands over looks a 7 acre field planted in oats, it gets harvested mid summer, but that 2nd growth is outstanding, they just love it. I have plowed and disc'd strips though it and usually because there is no shortage of rain, it comes right back, no weeds, just unreal how well it works, when they graze it, looks like someone went through with a lawn mower. I also fill a couple of 55 gallon barrels from the harvest, and plant same, plow, and disc in. I broadcast the seed by hand, very heavy, the more you can put down, the thicker the stand, not like a crop grown for harvest as it will only get 6"-8" tall if planted late summer early fall, that is if they do not graze it down heavily. This year it was so dry, the oats planted for harvest went dormant, lot of weed grasses came up, but then the rains came and those oats came right back as well as what was left on the surface by the combine,germinated too! I checked the field and saw this to be the case, I think whole oats from the feed store would do here, should germinate, it's a cheap forage that works well.
I expand my plots with oats this year, so they are as big as I can plant without any clearing, most of our fields have been let go for 25 years, so its a haven for deer, so I carved out plots, next is to put in some Whitetail Institute products, so I don't have to re plant for a few years, some like the No Plow are aggressive, I plow anyway and it takes right off, but you have to plant it annually or when you want them to benefit the most from it, all in the timing there.
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