OK farm hunter what's this then?
All farmers know deer take their alfalfa. Why the cheap shot? I even watched a hunting show on the Outdoor Channel where the guy was sitting in a hay bale blind for wind protection during sub zero weather on a late season BP hunt and had does eating his blind away on camera. I see lots of TV shows with shooting blinds ringing an alfalfa field.
In Oklahoma any feeding is legal baiting even to hunt over which I don't. I hunt trails and use feeders to attract deer from neighbors. Also fawns become imprinted to my land easier and better instead of my neighbors. Is it legal in NY so long as you don't hunt right over it? Can you hunt a certain distance away from feeders? Also alfalfa is cultivated and deer eat it all night so there's nothing wrong with it. Cattle are more susceptible to stomach souring sicknesses.