I have in the past several years started hunting around where i live and it is mainly a row crop area. I will say the deer from around this area in Missouri taste soooo.... much better than hill or mainly acorn feed deer.

For eating I would much rather harvest a yearling or 1.5 year old deer. I am not big on horn hunting, they are nice but not a have to thing. If I have a choice of shooting an old or very large body size buck or doe or the little next to it I will shoot the smaller one everytime!!!!

Bucks taken during rut have also had a stronger game smell than any other time during hunting season.

These deer I take around the ag area have ruined me on the deer from areas with just woods and very little row crops or non at all they taste terrible to me now.

Deer like people are going to health problems no matter where they are at, it is part of nature. But it could also be chemicals we use on our crops and so forth but we have to eat don't we, kinda like a double edge sword. Damned if you Damned if you don't sorta thing.