Food Plots Articles

If you’ve planted food plots for whitetails for any length of time, you’ve faced this dilemma: The calendar says you should plant but it’s bone dry. What should you do?

Early season offers too many windfalls not to exploit.

Why nearby posted land could be your saving grace as a whitetail hunter.

Turn your property a deer magnet by planting fruit trees that will enhance your property for generations to come.

Modest finances and some grit can drastically improve the deer hunting on even a small acreage. Here’s how the author and his wife boosted their small property’s deer appeal in a few months last year.

Here are the most common traps — and how to avoid them.

The author has planted Evolved food plot seed in western Wisconsin for two consecutive years. Growing conditions were less than ideal in 2024, and it was a repeat in 2025. Thankfully, the results were better than expected.

During fall 2025, the author and his hunting partners field tested five annual seed blends from Mossy Oak BioLogic on three of their western Wisconsin food plots.

The author and his family test three blends from Magnet Outdoors on a few of their Wisconsin food plots.

The author has been building and maintaining food plots for 30 years, but he made two big blunders in 2025.

Landowners in snow country can make life easier on winter whitetails by using a tractor to plow away deep snow from food plots.

When it comes to planting mast orchards for deer hunting, it’s hard to beat Chestnut Hill Outdoors’ easy-growing, blight-resistant Dunstan chestnuts.

Magnet Outdoors enters the food plot arena as a new company, but its leadership team goes back to the very beginning of the industry.

Clover is an excellent choice for whitetail food plots across the country, but they can be made even better by adding chicory.