This year we've had alot of snow - nearly 100" for the season, with 2-1/2 months of serious winter left to go. As you can imagine, the deer are literally living in our standing corn fields. Its hard to estimate the numbers of deer coming and going, but its safe to say that the Mature Hemlock woods, and 2 fields totaling 7 acres of standing corn have attracted most of the deer from the general area this winter. I'd guess that we have between 50-60 deer on the 200 acres right now - but its a sheer guess based on the deer seen and tracks observed. (remember this is a yarding situation - and not our normal population).

Anyhow, since all these deer are spending so much time in the corn fields, you can imagine the sheer #s of deer pellets on the ground. It occurred to me last year that the would be some fertilizer value, but last year was not anywhere as severe as this winter.

I'm sure this is all good, I'm curious what effect the addition of several 1000 lbs of deer droppings might have on the field, at planting next fall?