Planting corn sounds great except for a few problems. First you need a lot of sun on your plot. Next you have to battle the local wild life that attack your crop
as soon as it emerges from the ground. Then if it survives the deer eat it as a salad when its young. After all that you might get a small crop that will be diviored by
every critter in the woods!!
Ed the guru recommends that you don't plant corn in a wooded area. I would also agree with him. Plant something that will give you more protien per acre than
corn. There are a lot of plants that will lost longer and provide you with a longer food source well into the winter!! You can try something like purple top turnips
mixed in with some rape and some rye/clover.
Corn is nice but once the cob is gone all you have is stalks that they don't eat!!! I hope this helps you make your decision as to what you plant. Good luck
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As you can see this corn field did not mature, llack of sun light!! The buck oats did fine in th same area. I did plant a few rows of turnips in between the corn
that provided a lot of food for the deer in the area. They showed signs of even bedding down in the corn at night and eating the turnips next to there beds!!