This is a great thread. I only DISAGREE with Hardcore and Silverflicker
Buy your tags for Iowa and Kansas. Illinois should be great this year too
Honestly, a lot of great posts here.
For bedding areas... I say try toidentifythem and then STAY OUT. There is only one time a year that I will enter a known bedding area and that is when I am retrieving a dead deer. Although, I think that planting small tucked away food plots on the edges of bedding areas and hunting them can be very productive. More so than just hunting the edge of the bedding area. However, that is only based on my experiences.