Cultivating Your Food Plot Options For Whitetails

  I am sure that many of you know this all ready but one of the best things that you can do for your deer food plot is cultivate the resources that you have available to you on your existing land. What I mean by this is instead of clearing everything off and buying some wonder seed to plant all over, look around to see what you might be able to accentuate on the property, as is it naturally exits. I stumbled upon this video below while I was searching for material on corn food crops. More than anything that caught my attention from his video was that the kill zones were very well thought out in advance and yes, he planted new crops but he also worked with what he all ready had on the lots to attract deer. Please go ahead and check it out and I will also have some content discussed afterwards.

One thing that I would like to mention, first of all about this video is that it is terrific that this guy has all of these tools available to him to do what he is doing. In this short clip he mentions 2 tractors and a skid steer and 3 different food plots. This is great if you have all of these resources at your command but unfortunately most of us do not. This doesn’t mean that there was nothing to learn from the clip however. First, he incorporated the use of the fruit trees that are currently producing into his kill zone, This very smart because you never know what the whitetail deer might be craving. He also knew generally, which way the deer naturally funnel into the the food plot. This sounds easy but it is an important question to consider. Most experienced deer hunters know that deer can come into an area from all angles but they also know that deer can become quit predictable also.

I also love the fact that he created his own natural watering hole. He didn’t have one so by putting one in, he added an attraction to an all ready attractive food plot. If you do something like this, make sure that you do it well before the season starts. Unless deer are thirsting to death they generally need to feel very safe about where they get their water, so make sure they have unimpeded access to it. He is correct about the natural minerals that may be contained within his water hole but one thing that he didn’t mention was that if the hole doesn’t draw off of some type of water source, it might be fueled by the fields run off water which may contain fertilizer and lime, which you don’t want.

However you decide to do your food plot just make sure that you look around and reap the benefits of what you all ready have. You know your property better than anyone so you should be able to make the right decisions. To me, the whole idea is not to do work that you do not need to. Also remember that the more natural looking you food plot is the more comfortable whitetails will be in visiting it.