I have never seen an idigenous corn field. A farmer has always planted the ones I've seen.
That was my point, yes. Corn is an artificial food source for the whitetail no matter how you slice it up.
Therefore.......Yes ..... the difference between a food plot and a bait pile is the size.
I'm neither disregarding the rest of your points nor denying their validity. They are valid. Mine were, too.
The bait pile will not offer the deer any lasting nutritional value after the season as the food plot would either.
Disagree....unless your farmers leave their corn in the fields all season long and don't harvest it. If a person is supplemental feeding/baiting....and does so all year long....I'd say he's doing MORE to offer the deer a lasting nutritional value.
The intention of the corn in this situation was to kill a deer.
Do we really believe the hunter hunting a corn field edge is not intending to use the corn's presence in his situation to aid in the taking of a deer? You decide.