Cool Crops
Cool Season Crop Seed for West Texas & the High Plains
Cool-season specialty crops provide producers with flexible options for fall, winter, and spring grazing, wildlife food plots, cover crops, soil improvement, and forage production. These crops can be planted individually or incorporated into diverse blends to help extend grazing, protect the soil, and add value to acres outside the traditional growing season.
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Serving producers throughout the Lubbock area, Amarillo area, West Texas, the Texas Panhandle, Eastern New Mexico, and the Oklahoma Panhandle, Jack Seed & Supply carries quality cool-season seed along with custom blends designed around your land and management goals.
Turnips
Turnips are a popular cool-season crop for livestock grazing, wildlife food plots, and cover crop applications. They establish quickly and produce highly palatable leafy forage along with an edible root that can provide additional grazing value later in the season.
Radishes
Radishes are widely used in cool-season cover crop blends for their aggressive taproots and rapid establishment. They can help penetrate compacted soil layers, capture available nutrients, provide ground cover, and add quality forage to grazing mixtures.
Winter Peas
Winter peas are a cool-season legume valued for their palatable forage and ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen. They work well in grazing programs, wildlife food plots, and cover crop blends and pair especially well with small grains and other cool-season species.
Vetch
Vetch is a versatile cool-season legume commonly used for cover crops, forage production, and soil improvement. Its ability to fix nitrogen makes it a valuable companion crop in blends while its vigorous growth can contribute additional biomass and ground cover.
Clover
Clovers provide quality forage while adding diversity and nitrogen fixation to cool-season planting systems. Depending on the variety and intended use, clover can be incorporated into grazing programs, wildlife food plots, pasture improvement projects, and cover crop blends.
Rapeseed
Forage rapeseed is a fast-growing brassica that produces highly palatable cool-season forage for livestock and wildlife. It works well in grazing and food plot mixtures and can add valuable forage diversity alongside small grains, turnips, radishes, and legumes.
Grazing & Forage Crops
Cool-season specialty crops can help extend grazing beyond the traditional warm-season forage window. Combining brassicas and legumes with small grains can provide diverse, productive forage for cattle, sheep, goats, and other livestock throughout the cooler months.
Wildlife & Food Plot Crops
Turnips, radishes, winter peas, clover, and rapeseed are popular additions to cool-season wildlife food plots. Planting multiple species can provide diverse forage and help maintain an attractive food source for deer and other wildlife throughout fall and winter.
Cool Season Cover Crops
Cool-season cover crops help keep living roots in the soil while providing benefits such as erosion protection, nutrient cycling, nitrogen fixation, biomass production, and improved soil structure. Species can be planted individually or combined based on the specific goals of your acres.
Custom Cool Season Seed Blends
Every operation has different needs. Jack Seed & Supply can create custom cool-season blends using turnips, radishes, winter peas, vetch, clover, rapeseed, small grains, and other species to fit your grazing, wildlife, forage, or soil health goals.
Frequently Asked Questions About Cool Season Crops
What cool-season specialty crops do you carry?
We carry turnips, radishes, winter peas, vetch, clovers, rapeseed, and other cool-season species for grazing, wildlife, forage, and cover crop applications.
What cool-season crops are good for grazing?
Turnips, forage rapeseed, winter peas, clovers, and many small grains can provide valuable cool-season forage. The right combination depends on your livestock and grazing goals.
What cool-season crops are good for wildlife food plots?
Turnips, radishes, winter peas, clover, and rapeseed are popular food plot options and can be combined with other species to provide diverse forage throughout the season.
Are cool-season crops useful for soil health?
Yes. Legumes such as winter peas, vetch, and clover can contribute nitrogen, while brassicas such as radishes and turnips can provide biomass, nutrient cycling, and soil cover.
Can you make a custom cool-season blend?
Yes. We can build custom cool-season seed blends based on your planting window, grazing plans, wildlife goals, soil conditions, and intended use.