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Message: <blockquote data-quote="db-2" data-source="post: 226389" data-attributes="member: 4743">Yes I would like to plant a big plot but.The picture is of the 1.8 acres that I own so limit to that.  Other ownership has its limits.  Other places are on land that the owners has allow me to come in and the area I had to plant is limited.So I do supplement their needs with feeders and the plots do last.  Standing corn will be gone but brassicas will last (maybe have less deer than most and ranchers in area so feed in fields last longer).  That was until the elk came last year.  They got close to 1000 dollars of corn from me.So I do envy you who can plant large plots and have the equipment to do so.  Hope to quit working for a boss soon and if possible with the new time available would love to plant bigger acres but need to find land to do so also.Yes the winter greens after frost is what brings the deer in along with the feeders and not the corn or beans that were planted.  Soybeans for the protein as horns grow and corn just adds to the site and pictures plus give cover for the deer.  Seems like fall when I see corn stalks.  Need to find a way to get more protein into the deer during the horn growing season.  Do provide protein blocks that they do eat on and soybean meal.  Salt blocks will bring deer in by themselves but only on certain type of soil.Soybean grower need an august rain besides I need it to.Getting a 170 net deer with the bow would be great and that is the goal but the real enjoyment is just doing this and watching what goes on.  Seen so much more about hunting than when I hunted with the vehicle (and that was not hunting).    db- - - Updated - - -Seeding on the first of September depends on the fall weather and when the frost comes.  Brassicas will continue to grow after a killing frost.</blockquote>

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