odd food plot question

I am looking to provide some sort of food source on the land I hunt as last year late season I counted over 20 deer in the neighbors picked corn field across the road at one time and we seen a grand total of 3 deer all season. The land is about 40 acres with some thicker hardwoods and some open pasture, heres the situation the land is rented out for pasturing the neighbors cattle, short of fencing off a whole food plot what could a guy plant that the cattle would not destroy.

Thats a tough one! Sorry to say, but you are probably going to have to fence an area off. One other thing to think about is that food plot dont necessarily have to be a large area, and they can be any shape you want. If you have even a 25 foot wide strip along the woods you could use that space for a plot. There are some things available that will grow on a lot less sunlight than say corn. Is there maybe a small open area within the woods somewhere?

I have to agree with Brad on this one

Kick out the cows!!!!

How much does pastureland rent for? Offer the landowner to “rent” his pasture for the deer and put in a massive and strageic plot of corn, beans, forage beans, turnups, rape, and chicory. Does the landowner hunt as well? It would benefit his hunting, too, to “rent” out his land as foodplots.

Maybe water is the way for you to go? Where is and what is the source of water that the deer in your area are using? If you had an easilly accesable water source on your property, would that be an attractant? Also, the cattleman and landowner may buy into a water hole a little easier than a food plot.