Do you own it or are you leasing it. This will be a big part of the decision. If you own it or have control on what to do I would do something like what I did this last summer. I had a guy come in with a bush hawg and cut out about 2-4 acres of this one 40 that I hunt. I had him leave a few trees through it, I think about 5 or 6. They are spread so that don't get in the way but they provide a sort of security for the deer. I then planted 2.5 acres of it with buck forage oats. I hunted it the first week of the season and I had deer in it constantly. This is an area that has a pine thicket on one side and a hard wook bottom on three sides. I tripled the amount of deer seen from last year and people that hunt around me saw less. I am going to plant the entire thing in corn and beans this spring. Before this year I never found any scrapes in this are but plenty of rubs. I counted 7 scrapes in this food plot this year. I decided that I would not shoot anything but a trophy off of it and I would hunt the edges to harvest my doe quota's. The does find comfort in there and I thnink next year it will be a lot better.

My suggestion would be to cut out no less than 3 acres but no more than 5, plant it heavy and have a couple stands around it so you can hunt it under any wind condition.

Here are some pictures of what it looked like the day we planted. The pictures of the brush behind the trailer is where I have my stand.

http://picasaweb.google.com/JJ.Futch/SPHC