Food plots for deer

Planting the best deer food plots provides nutrition for antler growth, gestation, and critical winter forage. Learn more about whitetail food plots here.

Find out when to plant a deer food plot and get the best planting times as well as recommended crop varieties to attract deer for hunting.

Learn how to create an awesome budget-minded food plot and increase your odds this hunting season!

Deer season approaches and as hunters begin to scout territory. Novice hunters might wonder what deer like to eat. The answer to this question could impact where they place their stand, food plots they might have in mind, etc. This question on what they like most to eat could also be important to photographers and people who just like to watch deer in their yard. Having a basic understanding of deer biology can do wonders for hunters. #deerseason #deerhunting #huntingseason #deerfood

The choices are many. Picking the right plantings for your property is a daunting task, especially considering the hundreds of seed and seed combinations out there to choose from. Everything from plant characteristics to soil type to climate and location have to be taken into account in order to make sure the plots are the best for your particular needs.

When you're laying out a deer hunting property, use these tips to locate, create, plant and manage successful small hunting food plots.

The author's outside-the-box methods will help you better prepare for your fall food plot planting this season or next.

Nothing beats soybeans for deer food plots when it comes to nutrition, tonnage and attraction. Here's why whitetails love them and how to plant yours.

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Building a wildlife food plot is a great way to encourage animals, especially deer, to explore your property. Improve your animal habitat today!

Planting a food plot is a great way to attract more deer to your hunting area while helping to provide them with a supplemental food source and more balanced nutrition.

Food plots require planning, design and management to be successful. Before investing time, labor and money, you should determine the goals of your food plot. If you enjoy growing things, working with the land and nature, and seeing wildlife thrive, you may generally find installing food plots rewarding. If you install food plots as a main goal to grow and harvest trophy animals, you may soon become frustrated. Food plots alone do not create large antlered, trophy sized white-tailed deer…

Planting a deer food plot can be intimidating, but picking the right seeds for deer food plots can make a world of difference.

By Dean Weimer Planting food plots in spring is a superior option for hunters looking to offer up an established, attractive, and nutri...

Check out part one of this three-part series on how to create the best food plot for deer.

So, you've decided you want to put in a new food plot. STOP! Before you do anything layout the design, and please, please, please don't just start hacking an opening as big as you can! The biggest mistake my father and I ever made was making our biggest food plot way too open and not winding enough or giving it enough edge cover. We were too busy making the same mistake thousands of hunters make, we thought bigger was better...which is fine but it doesn't mean tons of open space. You see…

Can't decide what to plant this fall for deer? Let Dr. Craig Harper suggest three of his favorite food plot blends for fail-safe deer attraction and nutrition.

Although kill plot creations are fun to build, I typically do not create any on my own lands unless the conditions are absolutely perfect.

Just in time for spring planting season in the Southeast, select Walmart stores are receiving Dunstan Chestnut trees and Grafted Female American Persimmon trees courtesy of Chestnut Hill Outdoors. Ideal for wildlife, Dunstan Chestnuts have been called the best food plot tree. They’re easy to grow and produce nuts in just three to five years, […]