Yes, true deer bedding is probably one of the most limiting factors in the Midwest, and it is where they spend most of their daytime activity. Of course everyone sees them bed in everything to the woods to leftover bean fields. Deer are very adaptable, as proven by their wide range of habitat. Here in the Midwest though originally they would bed in the Native grasses and eat in the woods. With todays farming practices they know bed in the woods, and eat where the praries use to be. Of course they started the CRP programs and originally didn't think of the effects to wildlife, and planted shortter grasses like timothy. Now that is starting to change and they are looking for some to be in the NWSG, still they are still only focusing on a species that is hurting now quail (at least here in Illinois).

Now, if you want to build it think back to what your area was like before farming and where the deer would bed then, mainly the prairies, and rebuild them on your property. The deer still have it programed in the skulls to gravitate to those areas. Now that will start pulling them out of the woods for bedding purposes and makesome of your hunting easier.