Careful planning for feed plots helps with fall deer season

Deer season is months away, but there's plenty of planning to be done now for landowners looking to increase the attractiveness of their land to deer during this fall's hunting seasons.

Jeremy Brown, deer management assistance program coordinator in the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's private lands habitat division, said successful use of food plots in deer management is much more than roughing up a spot in the dirt and throwing out seeds from the latest no-fail deer forage blend on the store shelf.

"If the stars align you can grow some food that attracts a deer to a spot where you're hunting, but the use of food plots has much more potential than just making what we call a 'kill plot' during deer season," Brown said.

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