Do food plots really work?
Well it is August 24th of 2008 as I write this article, all of our 8 food plots are now in. There are two different planting season for the majority of the seeds out there marketed to hunters. I tend to stay away from the spring planting only because we our meadows are loaded red top clover and there is plenty of feed available during this time for the deer to browse on. Last year we planted a total of 6 food plots from soybean (biologic) to fall foliage. We also had a local farmer plant 26 acres of field corn and another 2 acres of sweet corn. Again we saw positive effects of what can happen when quality food plots are planted and knowing the PH and how much fertilizer to use. I have been checking around the local area and antler size was down last year and thus far I can only relate it to the drought this summer. The odd thing is that there was plenty of food sources available to the bucks for antler growth such as a great mast crop of apples and the corn grew great. So what happened
