This is JMO....but the way I look at is that the cereal grains are the main staple of a mix like this. It�s what will continually feed the deer from planting until the end of winter. All the rest of that stuff is just sweeteners to make things a little more attractive. Brassicas will dominate the grains and shade them out if you plant them too thick. That�s why I said back off your rate of them. Once they�re eaten though, that�s pretty much it for them. Deer love radishes. If I was gonna load a mix down with a brassica component then it would be radishes. The deer will likely keep them eat down to where they don�t ever shade out the cereals.

Your cereal grain rate won�t make a big difference on the clovers until next spring. That�s when you may or may not need to mow to thin them out a little. Whether it�s 50 lbs/ac or 100 lbs/ac�.your clovers will have room to establish. Cereal grain rates really need to be matched to browsing pressure. That�s why I asked how big your plots were. Normally the smaller the field, the heavier the grazing pressure on the individual plants. For plots less than 1 acre, I�d go 100-150 lbs of cereal grains depending on deer density. For larger plots you could back off to 75 lbs er so��.50 lbs is the recommended rate for a �nurse crop� for establishing clover stands�.not a rate for heavy grazing. Experiment with it and find what works best for you.