The food plots I plant are FAR more beneficial to my deer herd than a corn feeder. I can grow more tonnage of deer food cheaper than corn.
There IS a difference!!
Give me food plots and I aint' talkin' ryegrass, either!!! "Oh, my food plots look so greeenn!!!" says a hunter. They're ryegrass, sir!! Anyway...
I don't plant ryegrass. Most people plant in the fall to "hunt" over... I'd like to think I do both. I feed my deer herd with quality food plots and I hunt over my food plots too.
Not real big into corn.
Would you hunt over a standing corn field? There is no difference, only in people's minds. Another elitist thinking their way is the only way. Food is food, period. Both attract deer, period.
I would say that the difference is in the state laws and regulations instead of in people's minds. Your local GW would interpret it that way. I don't see anything elitist about that; it's just the law.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.