my uncle had a lot of problems with deer and his pumpkin crops. they would stomp them and eat the innards and not all of the pumkin, just some of it and then move on to another. He thought he the continuing problem, year to year, was that the fawns would be taught by their mothers to eat the pumkins and then continued the next year (and so on). Even though they like to eat the, I am not sure it would be my first choice for food plot. I would pick an proven winner (clover, soy, corn, etc)