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We have brassica, rape, turnips, and Austrian winter peas planted in addition to white clover, but our local deer ignore everything but clover, soybeans, or corn, even after heavy frosts are supposed to improve the taste (have planted them for several years and they just never use them). NC deer are not like most others, probably just too inbred and uncle daddy and aunt mom's genes just make for screwed up herds! Will try millet again this fall, even though it didn't help locally, but saw it being pounded down east several seasons now.
This has to be regional. The food plot peas, radishes & turnips hardly have a chance up here unless behind a solar fence. After the first good frost everything outside the fence is mowed off to ground level. Outside turnips size of tennis balls, radishes like cigars, inside softballs for turnips & 2 ft., 6" in diameter radishes like Jeff has on his youtube channel.

I really think most of the brassicas need the a couple long (2-4 days) hard frosts before deer start feeding on them.

Side note: I dug a few of the larger radishes & used them on another property 25 miles away that was mostly older growth forest. Tops were eaten off, main radish was never touched. This was in northern Wisconsin, in the Chequamegon national forest.
 
I've planted brassicas for 4-5 years now. This was going to be my part year for them because the deer never touched them. Technically, last year, they finally hit them a little, so I gave it one more year.

This year, they have been pounding them. One plot looked like it got mowed by mid December, but they were still hitting it last week. I late season hunted it, and it was tough because the deer were piling into it from every direction. I don't know why it took so long for them to like brassicas, but they loved them this year.

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