what kind of land are you doing the food plot on? keep in mind if you have farm land that you already have crops then food plots can be a big waiste of time. here in va on the farm we grow corn,soybeans,alfalfa,timothy,barley and others and i tried a food plot a few years ago and found it was useless because the deer wouldnt go near it since they had plenty of what they were used to but i have a friend that has a piece of land which is all hardwoods and he did a food plot on his land and it was incredible how many deer used it. and food plots can get really expensive.