Jake,

I agree with you that deer are not using food plots in our neighborhood because they are still feeding on the huge crop of acorns.  My wife recently went to western Kansas on a pheasant hunt and she reports seeing gads of deer in ag fields.  There are very, very few acorns in western Kansas so deer are much easier to pattern there because the food sources are much more constant and predictable!  However, I think the acorn crop is mostly consumed and deer should begin using our food plots soon.

I’ve had outstanding crops (even in the drought we experienced in our neighborhood this year) with the recipe we show on GrowingDeer.tv.  We use Antler Dirt, a composted and humified poultry litter.  The primary warm and cool season crop I grow for deer is Eagle Seed forage soybeans.  This combination works wonderfully on our poor, rocky Ozark soils.

We will be hosting one shed hunt this spring and two field days during the late summer.  There will be details posted about each of these events as they approach.  We’ve started a waiting list for these events as they were very popular last year and folks want to pre-register for the 2011 events.  We limit attendance to 100 folks at each event for logistical reasons.  You can be placed on the pre-registration list by emailing your name and contact information to us.

Growing Deer together,

Grant