I also don't want to start any wars, but I have questioned this practice for a long time. To me the DNR regulations aren't very clear on the food plot issue. Normal agraculture practices here don't include BioLogic, or Rape, or even turnips. None of these popular food plot crops are planted with any intentions of any kind of harvest except for those with 4 legs and horns. While I agree with the benifits to wildlife of the food plots how is hunting over them or on the trails leading to them any different than an automatic feeder designed mainly to draw deer to an area that is more easily hunted? How much have these food plots added to the deer population problems by removing some of the more natural stress of food availability that might more naturally limit populations and reproduction rates. I am still appalled at the hunting programs that brag about their supplmental feeding programs and the tons of feed they put out in just feeder bunks to "improve" their deer herd. In lots of cases we have moved ourselves from hunters to harvesters taking our pick of the bucks coming to feed from one source or another and paying huge amounts of money for the priviledge.
