Coming from someone who hunts in Florida, where it is legal I can tell you the differences for us.

1.) MATURE bucks are leery of feeders and mostly visit at night(rut is the exception)

2.)I can go sit on a food plot WITH an automatic feeder and not see a deer during daylight.

3.) On that same piece of property I can take a bag of ear corn and throw it on the ground in the woods and see deer during daylight.

4.) EVERY property is different for baiting. I've hunted clubs that the deer are standing under the feeder waiting for it to go off, on the other hand I'm in a club now that you may sit for a week over a feeder and never see a deer

I think most of you think of "baiting" just as corn, couldn't be further from the truth. So saying that it has no nutritional value is crap. If you want nutrition then put out sweet potatoes and protein pellets instead of corn.

Just because it is legal doesn't mean you have to hunt over it. We strictly keep corn/feeders on plots only, we DO NOT corn in the woods.