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Hearing a lot of folks talking about getting out of corn bean rotation and planting mostly corn thanks to ethanol and $4 a bushel. I am worried in my area more corn will mean less deer movement and sightings until harvest nears completion. May change how I hunt, may make putting in plots a little more worthwhile to draw them in. Any thoughts?
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I think you are exactly right, although most farmers in my area arn't willing to go all corn just yet.
I think it is "the future" though and will affect all of us...unless you hunt somewhere in this state...that has no corn!
IMO it's almost impossible to beat the attraction of corn...unless it's with more corn
I've been growing every possible combination for a long long time...and if I don't have corn...and they combine corn next door...I'm SOL
If you have "safe" hidden areas then any lush green plot is going to get hit.
I have yet to kill a mature buck anywhere near my foodplots...it's the does they are after and some are going to hit whatever you plant regardless.
Field after field of freshly combined corn stubble though...means doe groups are spread out and bucks travel freely between them.
Best have a stand on a good travel corridor
If you can't plant corn then your going to get a multitude of possible answers.
Just make sure it's going to be there at the time you want to hunt.
Oats and clover are earlier, wheat, rye, alfalfa and brassicas all season.