Wicked Tuff Turf Turnip Seed

Slash your winter feed costs and pull in late-season wildlife — a fast, high-energy brassica that feeds animals twice over, tops and roots.

Forage Turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa), also called White Turnip or Neeps, is an annual brassica — it completes its life in a single season. It is a dual-purpose forage: it grows leafy tops above ground and a large, energy-dense root bulb below, and grazing animals eat both. It establishes fast (grazing-ready in 60–90 days), and both parts are highly palatable and nutritious — giving cattle, sheep, goats, and deer high-energy feed in late fall and early winter, exactly when pasture quality falls off. That extends the grazing season by weeks or even months and cuts the cost of stored hay and feed. As a brassica, it also breaks disease and pest cycles in crop rotations and improves soil through a deep, soil-loosening taproot. Our seed is uncoated and tested for purity and germination.

Key Benefits

•     Dual-purpose forage: nutritious leafy tops plus energy-dense root bulbs.

•     Slashes feed costs: extends grazing into late fall and winter, reducing stored-hay needs.

•     Rapid maturity: grazing-ready in 60–90 days.

•     Wildlife magnet: a palatable late-season deer attractant.

•     Soil-loosening taproot: improves structure and drainage; breaks crop disease cycles.

•     Clean, uncoated seed: no fillers, coatings, or dyes.

Best Uses

•     Late-season livestock grazing extension

•     Deer and wildlife food plots

•     Cover crop and soil-health improvement

•     Crop rotation for disease-cycle disruption

•     Emergency forage and feed-cost reduction

How to Graze It

Strip-grazing gives the best utilization. Give animals access to a strip at a time — they will eat the leafy tops first, then the energy-dense root bulbs — which reduces waste and trampling and stretches the crop further. Introduce livestock to brassica grazing gradually and make sure they have other forage or fiber available alongside it, as a sudden switch to a heavy brassica diet can upset rumen digestion.

Important Notes

This is a forage and food-plot brassica, not a turf or lawn grass. Time your planting to the target grazing date: sow 60–90 days ahead. As a brassica, rotate thoughtfully — avoid planting it back-to-back with other brassicas (rape, kale, radish, canola) to limit shared pests and disease. During establishment, watch for flea beetles and aphids, and in some regions root maggots can damage bulbs; good rotation minimizes buildup.

Why Choose Old Cobblers Farm™?

Every bag of Wicked Tuff Turf seed is selected for high purity and strong germination, and tested so you know what you are planting — consistent, clean, uncoated seed for livestock producers and food-plot managers stretching the season.