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Habitat & Food Plot Mixtures
The Arrow Seed Company is a family owned company that was established in Broken Bow, Nebraska in 1946. We have been a producer and conditioner of conservation grasses for 50 years and produce native and introduced grass species and wildflowers. Different grass and legume species are useful for different purposes in creating habitat or food plots for upland game and other wildlife. Mixtures presented here are some of the more popular and widely used or adapted mixtures for specific uses. Custom mixes to your specifications are also available.
One key to successful habitat and food plots is to have diverse plant types in the seed mixture. We do our best to emulate natural diversity in our mixtures by using adapted varieties of complimentary species. Appropriate seed count ratios are key to achieving long term diversity.
Download our Habitat Guide by clicking the link at the bottom of this page in the Related Information section.
| ARROW BRAND FOOD PLOT MIXTURES | | |
Establishing food plots for wildlife is not a difficult process and can be done with minimal investment. A basic understanding of the soil, the wildlife species you wish to attract, and wildlife food preferences will help make your food plots successful. When done properly, food plots can provide opportunities to view wildlife and develop a healthier wildlife population.
Food plots are usually planted in long strips adjacent to good winter and/or escape cover such as a brushy fencerow, field border, windbreak, woodland edge or wetland. Strip width can vary, but the wider the strips, the more food and cover created for wildlife. The closer the food plot is to good dense cover, the more use it will have by wildlife.
Establishing wildlife food plots can be an enjoyable and rewarding experience. Arrow Seed can help make your project successful. |
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| BB2 Nutritional Deer Supplement & Powerful Attractant | | |
| You've seen how it works on TV, now see it produce amazing results on your herd. ARROW SEED is proud to be a distributor of Big & J's BB2 (Bigger Bucks, Bigger Bone). BB2 is a revolutionary nutritional deer supplement and powerful attractant that will perform year round. It is nutritionally well balanced to promote overall well-being in herds. It incorporates several vital minerals proven to stimulate antler production, assist the doe population during lactaion and ensures that come late spring, newly acclimated fawns are well on their way to becoming strong, healthy active adults. BB2 is most effective when used in addition to well-established food plots. "You put it out- they'll put it on". |
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| Krunch n Munch | | |
Plant this tasty mix of crunchy greens each spring to give your herd a great diversity of forage throughout the summer. Then watch them munch their way to their full potential. Can also be planted in the fall for grazing with freeze tolerant plants. Mix includes: Annual Ryegrass, Alfalfa, Crimson Clover, Forage Rape seed, Ladino Clover, Oats, Turnips, Winter Rye
Planting Dates: April-May or August - September 15
Planting Depth: 1/4 to 1/2 inch. If broadcasting, seed should be harrowed to provide seed soil contact.
Planting Rate: 29 lbs per Acre drilled; ad 20% if broadcast. |
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| Full Potential | | |
Deer have always been drawn to lush, green alfalfa fields. We're making that draw even more appealing by blending our best red and white clover to our Hight Quality Alfalfa in this perennial food plot mixture. Aid Mother Nature in making sure that your deer are healthy and reaching their full potential by adding this nutrient rich perennial legume mix to their diet. If you plant it- they will come! Mix includes High Quality Alfalfa, Premium White Clover, and Premium Red Clover.
Planting Date: April 10 to May 15 or August 1 to September 1.
Planting Depth: 1/8 to 1/2 inch
Planting Rate: 10-12 lbs per Acre drilled; 13-15 lbs per Acre broadcast |
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| Deer & Turkey Buffet | | |
This perennial food plot is a mixture of legumes, brassica types, and grasses broadly adapted from semi-shady areas to field plots. Use along trails, and in open wooded areas. Good forage after established for spring, summer and fall use for food plots and cover. Mix includes: Pinnacle Ladino Clover, Purple Top Turnips*, Festalolium Medium Red Clover, Orchardgrass Teton Alfalfa, Intermediate Wheatgrass, Rape Seed*, Purple Prarie Clover, and WGF Sorghum* *Annual, may volunteer back. Included only in spring plantings or interseed into mixture each spring once perennials are established.
Planting Date: April 10 -May 15, August 20-September 10
Planting Depth: ½" — 1"
Planting Rate: 8-15 lb/ acre drilled. 20-25 lb. Per acre broadcast
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| Deer Delight | | |
High protein annual seed mix deer will relish. Great for drawing and building strong bucks. Extremely high nutritional value and palatability for adding point to your trophy's score. Plant in very early spring for spring and early summer production. Re-plant in August for awesome fall and early winter drawing power. Mix includes:Turnips, Early and Late Cow Peas, Soybeans, Lab Lab, and Forage Sorghum.
Planting Date: May 10 - June 10
Planting Depth: 1/4 to 1 inch
Planting Rate: 36lb. per Acre Broadcast |
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| Trophy Banquet | | |
Bring ‘em back year after year with this perennial forage legume mixture with awesome palatability, exceptional protein power, and great longevity. Includes some grass for nutritional diversity and habitat structure. Mix of Orchardgrass, Pinnacle Clover, Chicory and Alfalfa.
Planting Date: April 15 – May 15; August 10 – Sept. 10
Planting Depth: 1/8 to ½ inch
Planting Rate: 12 lbs/acre drilled; 8 -14 lb./acre broadcast
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| Upland Game Food Plot Mixture | | |
Provides excellent winter cover pheasants, dove and quail. Good for food source and cover to increase winter survival. Good shooting cover. Balanced mixture of sorghums and millets with Sunflowers. Mix includes: Wild Game Food Grain Sorghum, Regular Hegari, Pheasant Acres Forage Sorghum, Black Oil Sunflowers, Proso Millet, Japanese Millet, Hybrid Pearl Millet
Planting Dates: May 25 to June 25. (Later dates will reduce grain fill.)
Planting Depth: ¾" to 1 ¼". If broadcasting, seed should be harrowed to provide seed soil contact.
Planting Rate: 5-8 lbs/ acre in 30-36" rows. Reduce rate in 40" row. 10-20 lbs/ acre broadcast or drilled into firm weed free seedbed.
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| Pheasant Acres | | |
Hybrid sorghum with heavy grain set for habitat. It is medium tall (4 ½ ft to 6 ft.) with good stand-ability. Birds like the grain and good cover as well. It has good seedling vigor for establishment.
Planting Date: May 25 - June 25 (Later dates will reduce grain fill)
Planting Depth: 3/4 to 1 1/4 inch. If broadcasting, seed should be harrowed to provide seed soil contact.
Planting Rate: 5-8 lbs per Acre in 30-36" rows. Reduce rate in 40" rows 15-20 lbs per Acre broadcast |
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| WGF Sorghum | | |
An early maturing grain sorghum 2 ½ — 3 feet in height. The attractive red seed becomes palatable at maturity, and is readily consumed by quail, turkey, pheasant, and prairie chicken, as well as migratory birds and deer. Holds lower leaves well to provide good between row coverage leading to better flush of birds. Mid bloom 43- 50 days, Mature seed 85-100 days.
Planting Date: Late spring, early summer after soil temp 55 degrees, through June 20.
Planting Depth: 1".
Planting Rate: 5 to 7 lb./ acre in 20" to 40" rows 15-20 lb./ acre broadcast.
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| Regular Hegari | | |
Hegari is a medium maturity, medium height (4' to 5 ½’) white seeded dual purpose sorghum. Makes good cover and excellent grain producer for food plots. It has good drought tolerance and is excellent for dryland production for wildlife. Planting to mid bloom is approximately 50-55 days. Plant type similar to Pheasant Acres but lower cost.
Planting Date: Late spring, early summer after soil temp is 55 degrees, through July 1.
Planting Depth: 1 inch
Planting Rate: 6-10 lb per Acre in 30" to 40" rows, 15-25 lbs per Acre broadcast |
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| Japanese Millet | | |
Japanese millet is an exceptional wildlife plant. A choice duck food eaten by waterfowl, upland game birds, and many nongame birds. Both the seed and vegetative parts are used. It also provides forage for deer. This robust annual ranges in height from 12 to 40 inches, depending on growing conditions. Leaf blades can be from one-to three inches wide. For waterfowl, wetland areas planted in the spring should not be reflooded until the plants are at least six inches tall. Flood to 12-18 inches during the migratory season.
Planting Date: April through July, after soil temperature reaches 45 degrees.
Planting Depth: 1/2 to 1 inch
Planting Rate: 15-20 lbs per Acre drilled. 25-30 lbs per Acre broadcast. |
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| SPECIALTY MIXTURES | | |
"Herbaceous cover providing overhead and horizontal concealment from predators, that remains free from both human (mowing, dog training) and weather related (flooding) disturbances from April to mid-July". Pheasant's Forever Essential Habitat Guide. |
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| Premium Nesting Cover #1 | | |
Diverse mix will fit wide geography and soil types. This mix fits the CP38 ‘SAFE’ Program designed to provide critical wildlife habitat for upland gamebirds. This mix can be adjusted to fit NRCS/PF Wildlife biologist recommendations. Mix includes: Blue grama, Canada Wildrye, Green Needlegrass, Little Bluestem,Prairie Junegrass,Sand Lovegrass, Sideoats grama, Western wheatgrass,Alfalfa, Black-eyed Susan,Canada Milkvetch,
Clasping Coneflower,Common Evening Primrose, Cudweed Sagewort, False Boneset,False Sunflower, Grayhead Coneflower, Illinois Bundleflower,Maximilian Sunflower,Plains Coreopsis,Prairie Cinquefoil,Prairie Ironweed,Purple Coneflower, Purple Prairieclover, Red Clover, Roundhead Lespedeza,Showy Partridgepea, Stiff Goldenrod, Upright Coneflower, Western Yarrow, and White Prairieclover
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| Pollinator Mixture | | |
Plant mixture designed to attract pollinator insect populations. The increased plant diversity of pollinator habitat will enhance wildlife habitat and may increase populations of other beneficial insects, reducing the need for pesticides. Other species are available for Custom Pollinator Mixes to made to your specifications. Mix includes:Black-eyed Susan, Blanketflower,Canada Milkvetch, Showy Partridgepea, Maximilian Sunflower,Purple Prairieclover, and Upright Coneflower
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| CRP ENHANCEMENT MIXTURES | | |
| Habitat and nesting quality of older stands of grass can be upgraded by interseeding these legume mixtures. Arrow Legume Mixtures are inoculated for better establishment, production, and persistence. |
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| Best Legume Mixture #1 | | |
| Mixture of alfalfa, two red clover and two sweetclover species to cover range of sites and bloom periods. Great for enhancing existing CRP stands to increase insect population for food source for brood development and roosting area. |
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| Legume Mixture #2 | | |
| Simple dryland mixture of Alfalfa and Sweetclover for interseeding existing grass to draw insects for food source. |
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| Legume Mixture #3 | | |
| Diverse mix of biennial and perennial legumes to complement existing grass or food plot areas. Mix includes: Alfalfa, Blackeyed Susan,
Illinois Bundleflower, Purple Prairieclover, White blossom Sweetclover , and Yellow blossom Sweetclover. |
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| Green Fire Break | | |
| Mix of alfalfa and Red Clover planted as border around Brooding and Nesting areas and functions to contain or exclude fire during critical periods in habitat and upland game bird life cycles. |
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| CRP MIXTURES | | |
| These mixtures will provide nesting cover, loafing areas, and brood rearing habit at as well as winter cover. These mixtures meet CRP requirements. NRCS will need to approve mixtures when used for CRP cost share. Custom CRP mixtures to NRCS specifications also available. |
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| CRP Mix #1 | | |
A Native warm season mixture of tall and short grasses including native Forbs for insect pasturage. Adopted for medium to heavy soils.
Mix includes:Big Bluestem,Indiangrass, Little Bluestem, Sideoats Grama, Switchgrass, Western Wheatgrass, Black-eyed Susan and Purple Prairieclover. |
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| CRP Mix #2 | | |
| Native warm season mixture similar to CRP Mix #1 with higher percentage of legumes. Adapted to medium to heavy soils. Mix includes: Big Bluestem, Little Bluestem, Indiangrass, Sideoats Grama, Switchgrass, Western Wheatgrass, Alfalfa and Sweetclover. |
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| CRP Mix #3 | | |
| Native warm season mixture for sandy land sites. Includes tall and short grasses as well as alfalfa and sweetclover to attract insects and provide plant diversity. Mix includes: Sand Bluestem,Blue Grama, Little Bluestem, Sand Lovegrass, Switchgrass,
Western Wheatgrass, Alfalfa and Sweetclover. |
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| CRP Mix #4 | | |
| Mixture for sandy land sites with higher percentage of tall grass than CRP Mix #3. Mix includes: Sand Bluestem, Indiangrass, Little Bluestem, Sand Lovegrass, Switchgrass, Alfalfa and Sweetclover . |
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| CRP Mix #5 | | |
| A cool season mixture that can be used for nesting cover as well as habitat. Sweetclover includes both white blossom and yellow blossom for extended insect attraction to provide food for nesting hens and growing chicks. Mix includes: Intermidiate Wheatgrass, Pubescent Wheatgrass, Western Wheatgrass, Alfalfa and Sweetclover . |
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| CRP Mix #6W | | |
| Similar to CRP Mix #5 but with crested wheatgrass added. Best adapted to western areas with rainfall of 22" and below. Mix includes: Intermediate Wheatgrass,Pubescent Wheatgrass, Western Wheatgrass, Alfalfa, Crested Wheatgrass, Yellowblossom Sweetclover, and Whiteblossom Sweetclover. |
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