This in the Chancellor community?

No sir, up around Troy.

Deer
Especially old bucks love waist high grass

Not sure, but if you enter from the north that stand will never be much count in winter. If you can enter from east or west and put the stand in the woods for camouflage you could be better off. If the deer don't bed on the east side much enter from that side and put the stand on the east side. Cut a stretch to the hut like a pie shape. Cut all the large trees down and plant year round food crops.

Agree. Plant every available yard of dirt there with stuff deer like to eat.

Id plant different rows. Iron clay peas and round up ready corn. the corn will give them cover to go to and from the peas and when winter comes around they will be back in the corn. Can bush hog it over also. the position of the stand might also be spooking the deer. this past year I went around a few of our houses that have windows on all 4 sides and covered a few so that you can't see someones head sticking out like a sore thumb while they are in the stand. Also covered the openings with camo burlap fabric to limit seeing movement in the stands. Stand being in the north. North west winds are the prevailing winds. moving the stand to the south could help with keeping hunters scent from blowing across the plot.