2019年12月14日 · Mowing your food plot offers the same easy browsing combined cornfields offer. However, your mowed field will have the entire field of corn scattered all over the ground, rather than the corn the farmer’s combine leaves behind. Lastly, mowing corn will ensure you have a quality shot opportunity on any deer that enters the field.

2015年1月4日 · Yes it is legal in IL to deer hunt over a bush hogged corn field even if it was not combined. However it is illegal to add any corn to that field after it has been mowed/bush hogged. You can hunt anything you want over that field except waterfowl.

2010年10月26日 · If you prefer to hunt with a gun and believe you have plenty of corn to last until spring green-up, then mowing the entire field may be a good option. Deer will certainly learn to consume ears on standing corn.

2015年8月16日 · Mow your corn in strips leaving strips standing about 1/3 the width you mow. Usually mow two widths of 6' mower leaving 6' strip standing. Mow in a pattern that gives you good vision from your stand. The standing corn will provide cover. Then broadcast some rape in the mowed strips. set harrow disc straight. Disc the mowed strips as lightly as ...

2021年9月20日 · Standing corn makes for secure bedding, feeding, and breeding. These reasons give bucks little reason to stray very far. Rather than complain about it, bowhunters should embrace and learn how to hunt standing corn.

2019年10月21日 · It’s like this all over the country in October, fields of standing corn are being cut, so how do you adjust? The days after a farmer cuts the crops can be awesome for hunting. The sudden change in habitat forces deer to move around a …

2019年4月3日 · Even in cases where the corn is ruined it’s still an agricultural “fix” or do over, and is never done intentionally. If it can be said the mowing a standing corn field that has good corn in it is an agricultural practice there is absolutely nothing stopping anyone from doing it

2023年12月12日 · Some states have rules against hunting over corn that has been mowed or manipulated. I asked our local warden in Minnesota, and he said you can hunt over standing corn, but you can't mow it or drive over it to make a shooting lane. I've always seen them flock to a fresh picked corn field, but they will eventually eat any standing corn.

2017年11月11日 · I have seen farmers mow cornfields off as it had been hit hard enough there was not enough corn to bother picking. I have also seen fields picked that were predominately planted for food plots that leave several rows standing at different locations across the field. You don't see this in "normal" ag fields but only in food plots.

2018年1月3日 · It is not common for corn to be mowed (there also would not need an exemption for mowing corn for dove hunting if this was common agricultural practice). There are still some acres of corn mowed after harvesting but this is known as shredding stalks to jumpstart the breakdown process for management of debris and to aid in erosion control of ...