Deer want and need diversity in their dietary intake. Clover and Alfalfa have been longtime favorites and I imagine they may help supplement a deer's diet along with the farm crops. No one crop will give a deer all that it needs. In the area I live, I can have a huge impact on the diet of my deer because I have no farms, nut crops, fruit crops, or other food plots in the vicinity. My deer may spend more time on my fields than others, but still need diversity. I try to give them diversity by planting different crops, but they eat whatever I put down because they don't have much of a choice for other high nutrition food sources. Lots of Biologic is brassica based-canola,rape,whatever, the deer like it in my area, but then again they don't have much of a choice. In agricultural areas I imagine they would rather eat the corn, beans, clover, or alfalfa. A friend of mine in a lower MI farm-belt area uses a lot of brassica mixtures, and lots of Biologic. Those plots do very well after the 1st frost, and are especially preffered in the wintertime, when other crops are near dormant or less palatable. In warmer climates...I don't know.

I do know that Biologic can be very high in protein, as are most brassicas, and if the deer get to eating them they can benifit greatly. But there are a lot of variables to think about.

Also, is it possible that by planting adjoining food plots, that more deer will gravitate to the area, thus increasing crop damage?? Something else to consider.

Jeff...U.P. of Michigan.