Summer nothing beats soybeans. (sure they will browse all the way to the field but once there, its all soybeans). Fall nothing beat a white oak acorn. I recently became aware of how much deer like chicory. I've planted a lot of food plots over the years but never chicory and boy was I missing out. Radish is another favorite for a plot. Cut a maple tree down and let it stump sprout (deer candy).
Agree totally, beans are great early season until they turn yellow.
Corn can be good also but can be tough because alot of the does will bed in the corn or right on the inside edge.
bucks will bed just inside the woods especially if its thick and gives them an advantage.
Most guys who hunt fields walk straight up the edges which i think is a huge mistake.
Beans and corn would be a main food source in my areas.
Browse would be secondary food sources that deer hit on the way to and from the main food sources.
Secondary food sources like any type of natural growing browse can be great ambush spots to setup on.
Especially right outside of some good bedding
This comes into play when the fields are receiving hunter pressure.
after few days of hunting pressure
those bean fields wont see many deer til after dark.
Acorns in the fall are deer magnets.
I focus on the nearest oaks adjacent to a good bedding area.
this is how I decipher where to setup in oaks when there is just a million oaks in the area. Especially early season.
Entry routes is the biggest things needed to hunt these spots.
most hunts are over before we even know it just by bad entries to spots
