“At a certain point I began to sit back and say, ‘You know, I’m tired of fighting with these deer.’ Why are they eating these [wine caps]? There’s alfalfa and silage corn [nearby], the neighbors have ...

It’s important to know that there’s not one silver-bullet crop for food plots. The best choice depends on your region, budget, soil, and available equipment. Mule deer in the West eat a lot of shrubby ...

Brassicas: Brassica food plots get hammered all winter, as long as there are tall green leaves for deer to eat and roots in the ground to dig for. Acorns: Again, as long as the snow isn’t too ...

Deer need to eat browse wherever then live, but in big-woods habitats, away from food plots and ag fields, the young woody growth that shoots up in recent cutover areas becomes prime food sources ...

One hunter says installing food plots may provide an edge he's looking ... So basically in the fall, when this green forage is growing, the deer will eat off the green forage.

Deer can significantly impact the make-up of plants in our natural areas through the plants they eat (referred to as browsing ... The Education Store Ask an Expert: Wildlife Food Plots, video, Purdue ...

Do deer eat meat, and what happens if they do? Deer are natural herbivores, but they have opportunistic omnivore tendencies. Deer obtain most of their food from plant matter. Specifically ...

This low-cost method works best around smaller vegetable plots and flowerbeds ... or other smells disagreeable to deer, which rely heavily on scent to find food sources. Repellents are effective ...

While the Old Farmer's Almanac stresses that there are "no completely deer-proof plants (if food is scarce, they'll eat anything,)" there are lots of options to up your chances of keeping your ...

Fairbairn argues baiting will help boost dwindling hunter participation. Other proponents say more baiting equals more deer ...

Jeremy Brown, deer management assistance program coordinator in the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's private lands habitat division, said successful use of food plots in deer management is much ...