Lawnfarmer - I'll be posting the Corn "how to" soon -
I'm getting the information together now.

Dan - As far as creating a yard, not really - unfortunately, its always been a deer yard in the winter, whether we had crops or not. The property, and lands adjoining it make two "v" shaped North/South valleys, where the tree cover is mature hemlock. The deer can get out of the wind, and are afforded some thermal cover. In years past (some 1970s, 1980s, and less so in the 1990s - we had a few major die offs in bad winters here.).

The past few years, we've had some food to offer in winter - and its made a difference, along with taking more deer. We we still get some localized overbrowsing of cover especially near the food plots - but overall, the last few years, the browse potential has bounced back.

I look forward to searching for sheds this spring.