S shaped plots if you have to contour plant, but straight rows are a lot easier, corn up to clover would be good, corn gives the deer a little security , our fields are full of deer in the summertime. My suggestion of fewer rows was based on giving them a place to hide yet allowing you to drive them out in an early season hunt, if you have one in NY before the corn gets picked. Never had any luck with Brassica, and had bad luck with chufa, but I have learned that I planted the chufa wrong, needs to go into the ground pretty deep. at least an inch or more..