Yeah Dan, but I'm still surprised how many deer still feed in the neighbor's picked corn. Next year I plan to plant enough corn so that I can raise the brushog up 2-3 ft and cut down 1/4-1/2 acre sections in stategic places, but still leave the majority standing. The reason is that the deer DO prefer to feed on the cut corn before the snow flies, and turkeys seem to avoid the standing corn altogether until late winter.

The next thing I plan to do with corn next year is to plant it mith a little more forethought on providing screening cover for the clover plots. In the picture above, the field on the right is a 4 yr old clover plot (5 acres) that has done well for us. Still this year, weeds took their toll, and though there was still alot of clover, the majority of the deer fed in the newer clover plots. The newer plots are about 2 acres, and offer a bit more cover, with the terrain. So next year, the above clover plot becomes corn, except, we'll replant a 1-1/2 acre strip of clover along the thicket edge. The corn is also going to be planted around the new clover field we plant, so one would have to go through the corn to see the feild. We think the deer are to easily spooked off of some of the feilds we planted. We always seem to have unkown 4 wheelers (kids mostly) cutting across the property, and our own traffic. So we plan to use corn to give them a little more security. I'm sure I'll post about our plans more as spring draws near.