Food Plot Screening

[SouthTexBow92]

Good Morning!

I am working on plans for food plots in East Texas. I am planning to install screening around the edges or a couple of these for various reasons. Has anyone used Egyptian Wheat Grass and had issues with hogs tearing it up? If there is a chance, it'll happen to me with our location and quantity of pigs around.

Let me know if there are other suggestions - I've seen some things about planting Giant Miscanthus, but I can only find a super expensive Rhiozomes method to plant and have read about how the roots can be a pain to deal with.

Thanks
STB92

[canny]

Are you talking about screening the entire plot or just in areas to provide entry to a stand or to create pinch points to funnel deer?

[Treeshark]

Not sure about the Egyptian wheat grass, I’ve heard pigs won’t eat the Sun Hemp. Might be a consideration for a screen

[Cullbuck]

We planted egyptain wheat it on a levee around a duck pond once, we had some pigs on the property and they didnt mess with it. I wouldnt say it was a high population of pigs, but it worked great. It did attract a ton of wasp for whatever reason.

[unclefish]

I screened off some plots with E Wheat once and it worked great. Pigs didn't touch it.

[Drycreek3189]

I have used straight Egyptian wheat as well as another product from Frigid Forage called Plot Screen that had other stuff in it. The latter was a better screen. It gets more damage from wind than it does pigs, but it dies in winter. If I wanted permanent plot screening I would go with Chinese Privet, cedar, or Yaupon Holly.

[KactusKiller]

I have had great luck with hybrid sudan grass. Plant in the summer/spring for your fall plot screens. gets really tall 6-7'

[GLM]

I’ve had good luck with Egyptian Wheat for a screen. I planted it about 6’ wide around the perimeter of a food plot. It got about 8’ tall.

[Flyway12]

About to use cedar to screen one of mine. There’s one area my plot can be seen from the road a few hundred yards away. I’m also going to plant big blue stem as well to help on the mean time but I like a more native approach.

[farlow]

grain sorghum is an excellent option for spring or summer planting.

[toledo]

Yall have any suggestions for something both drought and flood resistant? River bottom black clay.

[Drycreek3189]

grain sorghum is an excellent option for spring or summer planting.

Hogs will destroy grain sorghum when it ripens.

[dbaio1]

Food plot screening. I had to run the ole Googler. First I have heard about it when did this hit the scene ?? Advertising products to plant have jumped all over it I see.

[farlow]

Hogs will destroy grain sorghum when it ripens.

Hogs will destroy anything if they get a notion but I have more hogs than most on this site and have never had them tear down sorghum. Just my experience.

[Lincoln Hawk]

Go with Alamo switchgrass. Warm season perennial native. Can tolerate wet feet to some degree. And what you east TX folks call drought is no sweat for switchgrass. Gets 6-7' tall easily. Shred it after deer season. 2 PLS lbs. per acre of so.