Food Plots: Not Just for Deer

Food plots have emerged as a leading strategy for deer hunting, allowing hunters to focus their attention on food sources that whitetail deer love. Planting wildlife forage and tending the soil gives hunters and their families a tie to the land and keeps the hunting excitement going year-round, instead of for a few weeks in the fall. Best of all, food plots are conservation projects and anyone can feel proud of advancing wildlife species, both game and non-game, as described in this post by QDMA’s Kip Adams.

I am a food plotter. In fact, I am a proud food plotter. I enjoy planning, preparing, planting and maintaining my food plots. I like hunting them, hanging trail cameras in them, and observing wildlife use them in and outside of hunting season. I am first and foremost a deer hunter, but I also enjoy hunting turkey, bear, small game, waterfowl and predators, and I have seen animals from all of these categories in my food plots. As a hunter, I am also a steward of our natural resources. I appreciate the presence of and enjoy seeing songbirds, nongame species, reptiles and amphibians. I especially enjoy these as they are often the easiest for my young children to see while afield, and they often do so in our food plots… [continued]

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