Schultzy... even in an area where there are no peanuts grown, it doesn't take long for them to seek them out. The first deer in my yard would go from pile to pile(I usually made 12-15 little piles every night) and clean out all the peanuts before they started eating the corn. I've seen peanut fields in Georgia where they came in and rooted up big chunks at night just like a hog would root to get buried goodies. They are expensive. I was buying them for my yard about 3 years ago in Maryland and a 100 pound bag was $90 or there about. I was just trying to give them something other than corn as a steadycorn diet is not really good for deer.