Food plots require planning and labor but return significant benefits in overall wildlife health, attraction and retention on your hunting property.
Land management and deer food plot articles from Deer & Deer Hunting.
Category: Deer Food Plots
Land management and deer food plot articles from Deer & Deer Hunting.
Plant These to Attract, Keep More Deer on Your Land
When summer is drawing to a close and deer hunting is just on the horizon, velvet-antlered bucks cruise large agricultural fields and discs slice the ground as new fall food plots are sewn. Even the oaks begin to sag from the weight of acorns. The food sources that exist during the opening few weeks of […]
How to Make the Most of Your Deer Hunting Food Plots
Warm season food plots, which are extremely attractive to deer and turkeys, are part of superior management programs for serious hunters.
Fencing Options for Better Deer Food Plots
As gamekeepers we constantly preach about the importance of spring and summer nutrition for whitetails. There are huge upsides for your deer herd when they are provided quality high protein groceries during the growing months. Anyone who has tried to grow a small food plot of soybeans, lablab or other highly attractive warm season annual has […]
Add Variety to Your Deer Fruit Plots With This Superfood
Variety is the spice of life, and if you’re a white-tailed deer, that certainly applies to food. That’s why Chestnut Hill Outdoors, home of the very best food plot tree, the Dunstan Chestnut, provides a large selection of both hard- and soft-mast trees for use in food plots and attracting wildlife. Whitetails and most other […]
6 Tips for Drought-Proofing Your Food Plots
This time of year means that parts of the whitetails’ range are or could soon be under a drought. Following these six steps for drought proofing food plots could mean the difference between having some food for deer or a complete withered failure. Select the right location. You can’t just select any open spot and […]
Why Crossbow Hunting Food Plots is your Best Option
It’s that time of the year again. Turkey season is in and a lot of people all over the country are working on the installation and planting of food plots in preparation for the upcoming deer season. We do whatever it takes to prepare these food plots properly to increase the odds of crossing paths […]
Know Thy Habitat: Greenery Desirability Changes with Seasons
Food sources change in desirability during their various stages of maturation. When hunting over them, you should time your hunts for the phase when they’re most desirable. While it’s impossible to cover the most desirable stage of all preferred deer foods in one article, the following generally applies to greenery: • Seedlings – extremely tender […]
Improve Your Deer Hunting with Pears, Persimmons
In late summer when the fruit is ripe, it’s pretty doggone hard to beat the wonderful flavor of sweet persimmons or a crisp pear straight off the tree. One of the houses on my jogging route has four or five persimmon trees near the road. I know the owner and usually take a break there […]
One Food Plot Superfood Loved by Deer and Humans
Many, perhaps most, Arkansans enjoy purple hull peas on their dinner table. Deer love the peas as well. Planting in food plots is nothing new and is recommended by wildlife biologists of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission – but as one of a variety of plantings suggested to augment native foods for the goal […]