ORIGINAL: BTBowhunter
Sproul, did you just put in the Alfalfa this year?
Guys more experienced at this food plot thing than me say that deer sometimes take a while to start utilizing newly planted species even though deer elsewhere seem to love em. I know we planted turnips on our place for the first time this year.They are supposed to turn sweet after good hard freeze but the deer didnt bother withem much till well into January butonce they started, theyflat out mauled em.
This is a guess but ifyour deerarent used to Alfalfa, it may take aseason or two to get em going on it. Deer in the midwest love the stuff but once it frosts hard, they back way off of it and move on the other sources.
We had almost the same results with the turnips. We also planted them this year. The deer hit the tops first. Then later in the year,mopped up the turnips.[/align]