This topic actually centers more on Buck dispersment - than food plots -

Actually - once a 2-1/2 year old buck establishes residence - 90% of them will stay there until they die - only approx 10% will re-locate - and its suggested that doe/fawn dominance of an area is the most likely cause (as it is with the 80% 1.5yr old buck dispersal).

As others have suggested - Food plots will help feed your deer - but the best way to keep them is to remove a large chunk of the doe population.

It took us 4 years to flip/flop from a mostly doe family group population - to a majority buck population. Were are now trying to learn how to keep it there.