Food Plots So, what do you do with your corn?

[CAW]

I've been planting food plots on my farms for years, but never planted corn until this year. I planted about 2 acres of it on Memorial Day and it is looking really good.

A few questions...

What do you do with it once it matures? Do you leave it standing? Cut some of it? Cut all of it? Any advice based on your mistakes/success in the past?

Thanks!

 

[jmb4wd]

I might cut a few strips so I could see, shooting lanes if you will.

Id leave the rest standing. If you mow it down, it just gets wasted in my opinion. Leaving it standing tge shucks ptotect the kernels and keeps it dry.

Deer will utilize it much longer I feel.

 

[spoon]

Cut some shooting lanes now. Mid-Sept plant wheat/oaks on the lanes. As Justin said, leaves the rest

 

[SEC]

I plant 2 1/2 acres every year. I bushhog two rows at a time all throughout muzzle loader and gun season and still have corn standing in January. Turn the ground yellow game will show up.

 

[tn droptine]

I left mine standing last year until Dec, and the deer didn't seem to pay it much mind until I bushhogged some of it. Soon as that corn hit the ground I had deer all over it.

Ran a bushhog thru some more of it a few weeks later and the deer reacted like the tractor was the dinner bell - had them poking around the edge of the woods while I was still cutting.

I left about half of it standing and the parts I left standing I cut swaths thru it

 

[spoon]

Is it considered baiting if you bushhog the corn and hunt over it??

IMO, there isn't any differences between bush hog corn field and corn poured on the ground. Both attract deer to a location, how ever, one is legal and one isn't. To answer your question, yes its legal to hunt a bush hog corn field

 

[shelbydeer]

Cut half around muzzleload and the rest around rifle and you will should have plenty of deer in ur area for the rut

 

[Football Hunter]

I plant 2 1/2 acres every year. I bushhog two rows at a time all throughout muzzle loader and gun season and still have corn standing in January. Turn the ground yellow game will show up.

this

 

[ROUGH COUNTRY HUNTER]

we cut a strip or two every week or so.leave it standing long as possible

 

[primos32]

You guys that mow strips, does the corn ever get wasted by rotting/molding?

 

[Southern Sportsman]

But yet it is illegal to dove or duck hunt over a bushhogged corn field. Go figure?? :grin:

Migratory bird = federal law = different set of rules