The best thing about corn is it will keep a maximum number of deer on your land during daylight hours of gun season. Nothing else is even remotely close to being as effective. It may not be the greatest from a nutrition point of view, but it provides sanctuary and food they need during thier most vulnerable time (GUN SEASON). If you plant soybeans and not corn, but your nieghbor does, that is where they will be untill after dark. With free seed, corn cost me $30/acre this year. Most of my nitrogen comes from clover grown 4 or 5 year previous on same ground and I dont use any herbicides. Certainly corn is by far the best investment I make for venison which comes in at $1.50/lb. My main concern is keeping my family fed with healthy food while spending as little cash as possible. Corn is the key to getting this job done every year. The only reason folks think corn is expensive is they dont realize that maximum yield does not equal maximum attractiveness to deer. In reality, deer are more attracted to lower yielding corn because it contains weeds, giving them the variety they prefer, and sets the ears lower on the stalks providing easier access. This aint that hard to understand but few do. Why would a deer care how big an ear of corn was, or how many bushels an acre produced?
