I have lots of peanuts grown on my farm every year and I must say it is the best thing for wild game that we grow commercially--next to corn. Cotton has no significant benefits, but when I look out over my place and see the fields of peanuts and corn, from the perspective of a hunter, it makes me very happy (from the perspective of a farmer, cotton is more profitable, but that' s another issue!).
I lease out the row crop farming on my place each year, so don' t expect me to be an expert of the best way to cultivate all these things, but I do have a pretty good perspective on what the deer, turkeys, quail, dove, ducks prefer.
I plant food plots all over my farm. I have them in strips around cultivated fields, I have 3-5 acre plots comfortably secluded in spots surrounded by large stands of timber. I split some food plots with warm weather forages such as iron clay peas then replace the peas with clover and oats each fall. But the one constant that I have found the deer absolutely devour year-round is corn. Now they do love peanuts, but to grow them in the volume that I am able to grow corn such that there will be enough of them to support the nutrional needs of a large deer herd is not an efficient endeavor. And with corn, I can manage how fast it is consumed by mowing strips in corn patches at routine intervals of about 10 days to make sure there is always enough fresh corn on the ground to last throughout our 4 month deer season.
During the summer months before the goobers are dug and picked, the deer do enjoy eating the peanut' s leafy greens as the legumes are growing. I see deer out in my peanut fields very frequently, but you just wouldn' t believe how much the deer are pouring into my corn patches right now just wearing out their favorite golden munch.
The bottom line is that deer do like peanuts, but from my experience, they love corn even better.

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