things like this are what make forums so great. We all have different "needs" and "wants" from our properties and how we go after those can be so vastly different. In most cases our properties serve multiple uses and we have to walk some sort of balance of those (I know I certainly do). Sure some folks can go to one extreme or the other, but many of us use our properties for multiple purposes.....cattle farms, grain farms, recreational properties outside of hunting and things like that, all while we try to deer hunt it at some point as well. As such we have to find interesting ways to be able minimize the negative impacts on some aspects while trying to improve aspects of others. Most of us can't simply set the entire property aside just for deer hunting. Many have some sort of financial impact to consider......growing timber, growing crops or growing livestock, or simply trying to get the most enjoyment from their investment. This means we have to find places and ways to overlap management practices to try to appeal to both without too much of a negative impact to either. So weather your trying to get a pasture to serve double duty as a food plot, or trying to overseed a harvested corn or bean field for one, or you can carve out a dedicated area of trees in the woods for one - what drives us to do this is all the same. You give a little to get a little......and we all work with what we have. Forums like this allow us to share those experiences and what works for us and to learn from others and entertain ideas that we may have never considered ourselves.
