I am not at all sold on any of the advertised effects that planting food plots such as the aforementioned grows bigger antlers. In my opinion planting food plots just gives deer an alternative food source. After watching a few videos, doing some research, and growing up on a farm, the plants are basically a vessel for allowing good minerals to escape from the soil into the plant. In other words, soils richer in minerals will generally be better than soils with less mineral content. The best advertised antler growth food plots in the world won't produce better antlers than the soil allows....I am a firm believer in that.
AMEN again, to valid his point on every hunting show or person who shoots a dominant buck every year. What do the properties have in common(most of the properties) ? River bottoms, I own 3 mile stretch along the river and my farm has big deer. Not just bucks, but all the deer on average are bigger. Until I read this post I never looked at it in this way. My land is almost all in the flood plain and every year the soil gets re-generated with minerals.
Just for the record I plant food plots, but I do not get the ultra-mineral crap. I talk to a farmers at Michigan State and they gave me a type of clover and alfa that is AWESOME. It grows thicker and last longer. The deer love the stuff! Let me see if I can find the name. Biggest buck score wise 154, weight 275lbs, he was an eight not big rack but older deer, he was a bruser. My Grampa said "What the hell, you shot a cow"