My guess is that if you just had a pile of corn out there without the c'mere deer on it...the deer would have still ate the corn. I'm sure they like whatever is in the c'mere deer but i dont think it is worth it when you can get 4 or 5 bags of corn for the price at which you can get a jug of c'mere deer for. And i tell ya, they must be getting pretty wealthy off that stuff for as much as they charge for it.