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- I really think in southern Iowa, 2012 is going to be the year of the green food plot. I thought I would never say that…but with the drought, a green plot like these brassicas is going to draw deer. Normally, I am very big on soybeans, but this year they all burned up. These brassicas should draw deer from now through winter.
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- We’ve been getting a lot of deer pics on what is left of the beans this year. If you can find a green food source this fall, you will find deer. These beans will be gone in a few weeks when they come off with the fall harvest. Most of our bean plots got replanted this fall.
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- Many pictures of this deer. He’s been a local home boy most of the summer. Need to think of a name for him.
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- Deer will feed heavily and consistently on soybeans all summer through fall and into and through winter….until they are gone.
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- “Diego” heading into a soybean field. With the fall harvest, the beans are gone but hopefully our green plots will fill the void this year.
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- This brassica plot was planted in early August. It some what germinated but then withered and looked almost dead. With some rain, it really looks good when this photo was taken on October 26th.
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- “Diego” traveling through one of our interior plots.
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- “Diego”
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- We think this could be “Barkley” from the back.
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- “Barkley” during daylight in the morning. We nicknamed this buck Barkley in 2013. Because of low hunting pressure, we have pictures of him making it through the year. In this picture, him and another buck are near some scrapes on the lane leading to our interior plot “The Boot”.
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- Jamie from Minnesota with his buck “Diego”. Diego was a very local mature deer. I first saw him this summer on one of my soybean fields before they burned up. I later got cam pictures of him all summer, into fall, and right up until I met Jamie at the cabin for his hunt. Diego is a 5 year old or older brute of a deer. He has 11 points with an inside spread of just over 20 inches. Jamie slipped into a stand we call “High Rise”. It is situated on a fence line overlooking a pond and alfalfa field. The deer, especially bucks use the alfalfa as a primary food source and like to work the edge created by the cattle fence. Diego jumped the fence and walked by Jamie in front of the stand. Nothing is more gratifying for me than to see a hunter put all the pieces together and be successful on a hunt I provided.
