Ocording to the DEC baiting is " a prearanged pile of food /or a salt lick used to bait an animal for the purpose of hunting it"

A food plot is a planted not piled food that is being used for that purpose. Now acording to the DEC you could be charged with baiting if for instance there was a pile of corn in the middle of a field after a harvest do to the fact they could NOT prove you didn't put it there. Just got off the phone with the DEC because their on line site says it is illegal but did not define what bait was.
Hows that?