Everything You Need to Know About Food Plots for Whitetail Deer
Why should you plant food plots for deer? Two reasons. One is to provide feed and attract deer to your property. The other is to keep deer on your land by decreasing the size of a herd’s home range. If you hunt a 200-acre property, will planting a plot or two keep deer on it all the time? No. But food plots can help you go from 50/50 (deer on your property/off it) to maybe 70/30 or even 90/10. For the small landowner (or hunting club), decreasing the range of bucks is the biggest benefit of food plots. How many plots should you plant? That depends, depending on the size of your land and especially the deer density in an [...]