Planting Corn For Deer

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@homeinthewhiteoaks Жыл бұрын

Here is my experience with corn. (Southern Indiana) We started planting corn food plots in 1988 and did so until about 2000. It will hold deer on your property late fall and winter. It will also work better than about everything else from December till spring green up, soy beans will do as well or better depending on your deer and what they are use to, but corn seems to last longer acre per acre. The down side... Racoon populations will overwhelm you without intense trapping. Those coons will be murder on your nesting Turkeys. Corn can cut your Turkey population by more than half by building up a coon population. Corn plots also seem to be utilized more after dark than any other plot, I think deer just know that it's going to be a long process to eat their fill. I confirmed that the deer liked to feed in winter wheat, at last light then move into the corn after dark with my cameras year after year. Squirrels and Crows, also learned to go down the rows after planting and pull the young shoots up and eat the corn leaving a dead plant laying out in the sun. I could loose 20% of my planted crop this way. I hunted from fixed stand locations and shooting through corn is just not possible, especially with a bow. So unlike a wheat field I could shoot through, it was not good enough to have a deer I wanted in the field within range. They had to be in a shooting lane also. SO I still use corn but for me its easier to start a feeder system that uses corn mixed with deer feed, and save the plots for other crops. ( I have corn fields in my neighbors so I am not giving them corn when they don't have the digestive gut bacteria already built up in their system. That can be an issue for deer. ) I do sometimes plant a corn plot, but for me in my climate with my deer I think other late season crops are better suited.

@sandych33ks1 10 ай бұрын

I planted 3 acres of corn and its next to a 1acre of clover and 1 acre of purple top turnips and radish, with some chicory. The deer use the corn field mostly as cover/ security to now hit my food plots.. Now that its December in Northern Ny the deer are still here for the first time in many many years.. Its far easier planting corn than all of those other gimmicky screening plantings..

@timhilton5096 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great info Brenon. Standing corn is obviously still going to draw the deer when 2 feet of snow is on the ground in January. What other feed/crops do you feel benefits the herd once the snow pack starts to add up for weeks at a time?

@brenon_whitetail_partners Жыл бұрын

If you planted enough of it to last until that time of year, yes they will still be eating it. I like a buffet to give the deer many options. Brassicas, Austrian winter peas, winter rye, etc. The standing corn however is nice when the snow piles up seems how it’s easier to access.