Corn-Deer Food Plot Crops and Seeds

Corn-Deer Food Plot Crops and Seeds

Everybody knows that Whitetail Deer love corn! Corn is especially attractive to deer in the hart of the winter, when everything else is dead or dormant, corn is still available and and is packed with carbohydrates. I realize that many of you know this all ready but I must state it again to be sure. Corn is not a great year round food for deer. It offers little food value to the herd with regard to nutrients. It’s best attribute is that deer can make it through the end of rough winters by eating corn. I use this analogy all the time, that a biologist friend of mind said to me many years ago, “Feeding deer corn is like giving a starving person a candy bar. It will keep them alive but you don’t want it to be the primary food source.”

The nice thing about corn is that it is an abondant cash crop, so it is everywhere. Many times if you search around you can find corn seed that is left over. You may even be able to get it a very low price if not for free. Which is great for people like us that want a cheap deer food plot.

I don’t feel the need to talk much about corn as a plant because everyone is familiar with corn and there are volumes of information on growing it. Idealy, your food plot should contain other crops in it to maintain the herd through the spring, summer and fall and the deer will not depend on the corn until they have to. This time of year happens to be when most hunting is accuring, so corn can be a vital resource for late season stands and blinds.

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Perennial Clovers-Deer Food Plots Crops and Seeds

Perennial Clovers-Deer Food Plots Crops and Seeds
 
Many people consider Clover to be the most widespread plant for deer food plots. There are two basic types of clover, Perennial and seasonal.  The difference being that perennial clovers have multiple growing season and last for several years. These are the most popular for deer food plots. If you go looking for perennial clover seed, make sure you try to get the fine-stemmed and grow dense and short varieties.
 
Clovers could be the cornerstone to many successful deer food plot programs. They’re most critical to deer during spring through early summer. During this time, perennial clovers go through most of their yearly growth and they contain their highest protein concentrations. As temperatures rise during the warm months, perennial clovers slow their growth and a lot of species go dormant (stop growing). Because of this, clover quality declines at this time and deer rely on them only moderately. When cool temperatures return in the fall, the majority of perennial clovers will experience another short period of active growth. Deer will again take advantage of the clovers, however , not as aggressively when they did in spring. Perennial clovers often tend not to attract deer to plots during the hunting season as well as other sorts of forages will. Their greatest benefit to deer is as a high-protein spring food that is required by lactating does as well as for early antler development in bucks.
 
Perennial clovers are usually categorized by three basics types: red clover, white clover, and alsike clover. All three have unique properties and offer value to most deer food plots, depending on what part of the Country you live in. Most people believe that planting clover in combinations is the most effective. Being some are short lived and some do better in dry climates, ete. I feel that if you can get a good deal one clover, its worth planting. Clover is one of the most nutritious foods for deer and to me, it is a must for any deer food plot. 
 
I found a little you tube video that might help you a some as far as pH and fertilizing your deer food plot. These are the first crucial steps in starting a food plot and should be taken very seriously. You don’t want to waste time and money on something that will not reap any rewards. I hope that you enjoy.
 

Corn-Deer Food Plot Crops and Seeds

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Whitetail Deer Food Plots-Our Mission Statement

Whitetail Deer Food Plots-Our Mission Statement

Hello and welcome to Whitetail Deer Food Plots. This site is dedicated to providing unique content on the planting and growing and maintaining your own deer food plot. We will be targeting food plots for Whitetail deer specifically. We will look at the optimum deer food seeds to plant, depending on your local climate along with information and techniques that will be useful in the farming and agricultural aspects of deer food  plots.

We will also do our best to get you information on the finest products pertaining to food plots and I will also try very hard to negotiate with seed producers and other product distributors to bring the lowest and best prices for our customers here at this site. If we can get a large enough following here, it displays a powerful bargaining chip to deal with all of the outdoor product distributors. I truly believe if your webmaster, me, is not just trying to get the highest profit margins possible, he can in turn get great deals for his customers. In other words, if I am not greedy, you will get more value on my site and you will come back and also tell your friends. I believe that food plots can be unique to you and your local environment. Meaning, that they are not just a 5 acre plot that has all the seeds imaginable and that you have to have a big tractor and spreader and all of the unlimited resources at hand, that many of the authors have, that write and report on these massive food plotstracts. This will not all happen overnight but I pledge to do my best to bing it to you.

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