We spend a lot of $ on plots. To be competitive we will have to feed - I saw that this year with a lot of corn on the ground on neighboring property. It works best to buy nice feeders and do it year round. Not sure we will do both. It sure will save a lot of work,

I dont plan to make any changes on my place as far as planting summer and winter crops.

Yes we will. Deer need other nutrition and like a variety of choices. Our acorns are basically nonexistent due to being cleared. We need all the help we can get

yes

We will do both.

Yes

Will do both.

Food plot tractor time is my favorite time of year.

If you don't do both the neighbors will definitely keep all the deer if they do.

THIS ^^^^^ !!!!!


I enjoy planting during spring and summer for deer and turkeys almost as much as hunting.

Will still plant.

I love lobster but I can get tired of it. Deer are like us in that they like a varied diet. I will still continue to plant a food plot.

Yes

Why is it a competition?

Sure. I plant mainly for the enjoyment of seeing something grow. Now spring planting can be a headache sometimes though. I still love riding the tractor and turning that dirt. It's just something I do.

Yes. This was the first year I ever fed during the season.

Based on camera activity, it is not a magic bullet.

Food plots were still used at a high rate. If you HAD to chose one...plant the plots and forget the feeding.

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I would. Corn has very little nutritional value for deer. If you couldn't plant food plots, I would have a full time gravity feeder filled with protein pellets.

I would still plant food plots if it were illegal to hunt over them.

Yes I will, but I will say that corn fattens and slicks a deer up more than any greenfield "I've" ever planted. People who say corn is not good for deer are just wrong. It's obvious by the evolution of pictures on my cameras that bucks and does look better toward the end of deer season because of my corn feeding. So if you have adequate browse I really don't think you'd have to plant green fields. I plant mine for the turkeys as much as deer.
If we ever go to one buck a year limit, I won't do anything.

Which one is more beneficial to the widest variety of animals?
Corn or greenfield?

YES

Curious to see how much corn prices increase if thie damn thing passes. If it does increase, it may change some people's minds!

The best of all worlds...plant corn/soybean fields just for deer, cut some of the middle rows in the fall and plant you a green field.

We will still plant food plots, just add a feeder in the middle of each one.:)$$$$

I might hunt a food plot twice a year and that's mostly when my daughter goes with me. I wouldn't care if we didn't plant food plots and I won't be feeding.

LOTs of opinions about feeding corn.

http://www.growingdeer.tv/view/ask/is-feeding-corn-harmful-to-deer-in-winter/

http://www.farmanddairy.com/columns/feeding-corn-to-deer-could-be-death-sentence/14324.html

Corn is not a magic fairy dust. Deer WILL NOT walk from miles around to eat it. They will stop by and snag a bite or two and move on.

I'd suggest putting corn feeders in or around a food plot. They will be coming to your food plots anyway and they will also have the draw of the corn.

Had 1/2 acre of corn last year, as long as there was corn there, there were deer there, almost every day, in the daylight. When all the corn was gone that dropped off quite a bit, but they still came to the Greenfield next to it some.....this year I planted the whole acre inn green stuff and had a feeder up over the hill 250 yards away. No deer at the feeder un the daylight, according to pics. Saw deer at the Greenfield about the same rate as last year, in the daylight. I'm gona plant corn this year, just more of it, and a acre Greenfield, and leave the feeder off. I think this will give me my best chance at a good one and keep me seeing deer every day.

Yes

No to both. I wont use bait and I wont cultivate food plots.

We do have two fields on our lease that the property owner cuts a couple times a year but there is no "cultivation" going on.

Another thing I wont do do is tell someone else how to manage their property.

Our green fields were ate down to the ground this year even with people feeding corn.I think the spring/summer planting is great,in my experience deer are attracted to anything fertilized,they love the extra sweetness/tenderness of fresh growth.

I hunt in south GA where corn is legal and we still plant plenty of plots. We actually very rarely put out corn during the season, but it's nice to at least have multiple options.

I will still plant food plots and will encourage my neighbors to feed all the corn they can afford

This.

You get more bang for your buck by planting rather than buying feed. So I'll continue to plant and maybe put out a feeder or two that get filled only occasionally.

Yes , we will plant food plots and feed. We have 4 permanent gravity feeders that we feed protein(spring) and corn(fall). We are trying to hold our deer on the property, especially does , the bucks will be around in January if we keep the does there. A biologist once told me that a deer must consume a certain amount of browse after eating acorns/corn. Our land is changing from thick uncut pines to some nice size clear cuts. The deer should benefit from the new browse that will be generated in the cuts but we will definitely plant our plots also. I think our deer will multiply and get larger, not because of the feed but because of the new browse that we have.

Probably feeder only just shoot one or two deer and be done with it. Just so I don't have to deal with the pressure on public land or checking in during
rifle season. By the time I check out with a deer on some days and get the deer dressed the meat is not fresh.

food plots are baiting. When there is no fence around your property, no cows, goats, horses or sheep but there is a lush green pasture and some shooting houses is it there for the beauty? Come on where is the common sense?

I would for two reasons. 1 I like tractor time. 2 I would still want as much food on my place as possible.

Yes, we will still plant. We will also continue to feed with feeders placed on roadsides where they are practically unhuntable, and they can be filled on the way to a stand. Corn HELPS to hold does on our place. I'm sure of that. I also would expect them to become nocturnal IF we sat watching the feeder and shot every deer that showed itself at the feeder. They "learn" quick where to show themselves and not show themselves during daylight hours. They "learn" that from our actions. If people start shooting deer over a feeder site, it won't take long til they're whining again about coyotes, too many does killed, too much pressure, etc etc, and they'll be back at square one trying to figure out who's fault it is that they aren't seeing any deer.