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Old 02-14-2020 | 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by grouch55
oldtimer are you having a bad day ? A little grouchy ? wsca37 stated houses on one side, agricultural fields three sides ! So to me food plots would not have great impact, possibly the one small plot if planted in something not available in area ! With all the agricultural fields it seems to me that deer will need bedding area,s more than anything else, He could have the area,s only sanctuary for the best deer !

Not at all, I read very clearly what he said! He said the deciduous tree area which is about 60 percent of the property is very open with few mature trees. I wish he would have said what those trees are, do they produce acorns or other mast? But he didn't. Deer have preferred foods which are not in the farm crop family and there are woody shrubs Witch Hazel being one , which can be planted to provide food and a sense of security for the deer by providing cover for them and he could also plant mast producing trees such as Oaks and Beechnut and fruit trees such as apples and Persimmons and he has the existing 2 acre food plot which I am sure can be enhanced with plantings like Brasica which will provide leafy food early on and turnips and radishes through the winter that the deer can dig up. That is why I told him to contact his game department for recommendations of what to plant. He can enhance that property substantially to be attractive to deer for other reasons other than a bedding area in the conifers. Relying on a bedding area only as you seem to think is best is short sighted when there is so much more he can do. Agriculture today provides very little in the way of food or shelter after the crops are harvested. With 58 acres there is much he can do to enhance his property. Perhaps you forgot, deer season comes pretty much after the soybeans and corn is harvested and those fields will be a biological desert for deer. He has an Oasis which can be improved upon which is pretty much why he posted asking for recommendations.

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