ORIGINAL: kansaswiderack: Looks like a few people agree w/ my idea. I will give it a try this year & see what happens. The area I am in is heavy in ag & attracking & holding deer can be difficult. I have excellent cover which tends to hold deer under extreme conditions, but during the milder times they can be anywhere. I hope this puts them over the top.
I live in a heavy ag area with alot of wood lots. Deer population is around 18/sq mile, lots of good habitat. With human activity in the neighborhood, it is hard to get deer to come in during hunting hours. I planted turnips and brassicas the year before .... and the deer did not touch them September through April. The deer prefered standing RR soybeans, RR corn, and dug through snow to get white clover.
What blew me away this year was the new RR sugar beets. The deer are all over them, along with the RR soybeans, RR field corn, and clover. Winter sugar beet attraction is almost as good as sweetcorn. I am planting 3x more RR sugarbeets this summer, but noturnips/brassicas.
