Corn.. Its whats for dinner!

  • flatlandfowler
    SC/SW MN
    Posts: 1081
    August 3, 2010 at 3:23 am #204405

    Just in case any one was wondering what heavy browsing looks like

    We use strips of corn in between different food plots to help create small secure feeling feeding areas. Furthermore, they make great traveling routes for the deer and sneaking in and out of stands in the fall.

    One particular plot of ours this year just got hammered. We have two strips of 6 rows making several small plots, as well as about 1/2 acre of solid corn here. Every last stalk looks like these, all about knee high and just

    Cant be upset though, after all, we did plant it for them!

    qdm4life
    Albertville, MN
    Posts: 956
    August 3, 2010 at 3:40 am #84313

    Cant be upset though, after all, we did plant it for them!


    Ouch thats the worst I’ve seen this year! Need more food plots Thanks for sharing!

    shednut
    22 feet up
    Posts: 632
    August 3, 2010 at 4:57 am #84324

    uffda That’s unreal, are you going to topdress any seed in there? Could recover some of you’re fert with rye or brassicas broadcast into it right now. Just a thought

    lick
    Posts: 6443
    August 3, 2010 at 11:15 am #84328

    Holy chewed up

    Hope it wasn’t coons

    scottb.
    Southeast, MN
    Posts: 1014
    August 3, 2010 at 2:15 pm #84334

    Thats crazy, not sure what area you are in but we really do not see any browsing on corn like that in my area. They will find better things to eat and usually do not hit the corn until fall and usually just the cobs. Not to say there isn’t some browsing but not to that extent.

    Do they have other more palatable browse in this area or is corn about it? Either that or its time to start shooting some does!

    robstenger
    Northern Twin Cities, MN
    Posts: 11374
    August 3, 2010 at 4:22 pm #84351

    Those dam Deer!

    That is awesome!

    flatlandfowler
    SC/SW MN
    Posts: 1081
    August 3, 2010 at 7:44 pm #84379

    Quote:

    Thats crazy, not sure what area you are in but we really do not see any browsing on corn like that in my area. They will find better things to eat and usually do not hit the corn until fall and usually just the cobs. Not to say there isn’t some browsing but not to that extent.

    Do they have other more palatable browse in this area or is corn about it? Either that or its time to start shooting some does!

    http://www.idohunting.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=habitat&Number=658073&fpart=1&PHPSESSID=

    The plot in the pics above is in the 2nd pic/map. Pic/map 2, 3, 4, &5 are all within the same half mile so there is more than enough palatable browse. Not to mention all the neighbors plots across the road. Just got to a point around the 4th of July when all our trail cam videos were does walking through nipping the tops off the corn. This is all that those ‘nipped’ stalks ended up as. All the corn in our other plots is growing tremendously, just not this one

    Figured someone would find it interesting….

    scottb.
    Southeast, MN
    Posts: 1014
    August 3, 2010 at 9:48 pm #84411

    Funny how they are only picking on that one, you must have made it an extra tasty batch!

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