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<blockquote data-quote="Hunter 257W" data-source="post: 4081122" data-attributes="member: 12277"><p>Sounds like my situation. You say that only 45 acres of your 250 total is in woods. What about the surrounding area? Is there a lot of available cover generally speaking in the area? My farm is 235 acres with about 60 acres of woods and very little cover in the surrounding farms. As a result there just isn't the expected Unit L deer population in the area. I have planted a lot of food plots for the past 7 or 8 years but never, ever see bunches of deer eating in them. In fact, the vast majority of the time I don't see any deer at all in my food plots. Even when driving by at night and letting the headlights sweep across the plots. One of which is 4 acres of Whitetail Institute "Alfa Rack". I still do not understand that......I can see the deer being reluctant to come to relatively open fields in the daylight but why they would still be so skittish at night is beyond me. </p><p></p><p> One suggestion that did make a difference for me is to plant a food plot that is tall enough that it doubles as cover to make the deer more at ease on your land. Whitetail Institute "Power Plant" has worked great for me in the past. One year in particular I planted strips of this, mixed with corn, in a 20 acre field near my shooting house. The rest of the 20 acres - between the Power Plant strips - I left untouched and it grew up in weeds. That 20 acres of 5 to 6 foot tall thicket did make a real improvement in deer sightings that year as deer felt a lot safer crossing that part of the farm. Currently I am also creating a tree plot, with planted oaks and fruit trees surrounded by wild trees. Cover is my main weak point and sounds like it may be your also.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hunter 257W, post: 4081122, member: 12277"] Sounds like my situation. You say that only 45 acres of your 250 total is in woods. What about the surrounding area? Is there a lot of available cover generally speaking in the area? My farm is 235 acres with about 60 acres of woods and very little cover in the surrounding farms. As a result there just isn't the expected Unit L deer population in the area. I have planted a lot of food plots for the past 7 or 8 years but never, ever see bunches of deer eating in them. In fact, the vast majority of the time I don't see any deer at all in my food plots. Even when driving by at night and letting the headlights sweep across the plots. One of which is 4 acres of Whitetail Institute "Alfa Rack". I still do not understand that......I can see the deer being reluctant to come to relatively open fields in the daylight but why they would still be so skittish at night is beyond me. One suggestion that did make a difference for me is to plant a food plot that is tall enough that it doubles as cover to make the deer more at ease on your land. Whitetail Institute "Power Plant" has worked great for me in the past. One year in particular I planted strips of this, mixed with corn, in a 20 acre field near my shooting house. The rest of the 20 acres - between the Power Plant strips - I left untouched and it grew up in weeds. That 20 acres of 5 to 6 foot tall thicket did make a real improvement in deer sightings that year as deer felt a lot safer crossing that part of the farm. Currently I am also creating a tree plot, with planted oaks and fruit trees surrounded by wild trees. Cover is my main weak point and sounds like it may be your also. [/QUOTE]
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