Good way to attract deer into an area

[RAMTECH]

I've got the original homestead farm that I've hunted for the last couple years for Turkey. Lately we've been seeing a couple deer out in the soybean fields so I'm hoping next year to make a shot on one. My great uncle and I are building a box blind in the field we see them out moving in.

On to my question, what's the best thing to throw out for the deer over the winter to try and get some good trail camera pictures?
Also any tips for building a box blind?

[udderbrudder]

Maybe a foodplot is an option. I have a 1/4 acre plot and deer hit it almost all year. It requires little maintenance and few visits-unlike putting out feed. The deer love the turnip and even dig them out through the snow.

[Greenhorn]

Leave an acre or two of standing soya beans. Their #1 food source. You'll have the deer feeding all winter until the ground is ready to replant.

[bigtedd]

It can be expensive, but good old bags of corn have worked for me for years. only thing is you obviously get tons of pics of birds, squirrels, coons, rabbits etc.

Good luck

[standup]

I've got the original homestead farm that I've hunted for the last couple years for Turkey. Lately we've been seeing a couple deer out in the soybean fields so I'm hoping next year to make a shot on one. My great uncle and I are building a box blind in the field we see them out moving in.

On to my question, what's the best thing to throw out for the deer over the winter to try and get some good trail camera pictures?
Also any tips for building a box blind?

I'm totally blown away by the notion of deer in soya. Are You sure?

[rackman]

A couple bales of alpha will do the trick in the winter

[bcxextreme]

I've got the original homestead farm that I've hunted for the last couple years for Turkey. Lately we've been seeing a couple deer out in the soybean fields so I'm hoping next year to make a shot on one. My great uncle and I are building a box blind in the field we see them out moving in.

On to my question, what's the best thing to throw out for the deer over the winter to try and get some good trail camera pictures?
Also any tips for building a box blind?

You have got the number one attractant going IMO. Deer LOVE soybeans. Beans draw deer like magnets.Last yr I hunted a feild planted with beans. The deer were coming out pretty well every evening I hunted. well before dark. This yr its planted with clover where the beans were and corn after that. Have not seen a single deer come to the field in evening.They were coming well after dark.If the snow is not too deep they will likely scrape down to whatever they can find.

[Splaker]

You have got the number one attractant going IMO. Deer LOVE soybeans. Beans draw deer like magnets.Last yr I hunted a feild planted with beans. The deer were coming out pretty well every evening I hunted. well before dark. This yr its planted with clover where the beans were and corn after that. Have not seen a single deer come to the field in evening.They were coming well after dark.If the snow is not too deep they will likely scrape down to whatever they can find.

Can beans be bought dried? I mean to say that instead of dumping cracked or whole corn, can you use soy instead in a dried form?

[Marker]

Develop a plan that covers your hunting over the period of time you will have access to the property. I assume since you have been there a few years you will have continued access, in this regard by doing the below you could see results in:

Immediate: Put down corn
1-2 yrs: Start a food plot to include some annuals like cover, rye grass etc
2-3 yrs: Plant Apple trees
5-8 yrs: Plant Chinese Chestnut trees (not Horse Chestnut they are toxic)
10-15 yrs: Plant fast growing hybrid White Oaks

[Greenhorn]

Standing beans, ( better than soya on the ground,they will Mold )means you plant and do nothing but watch and wait to shoot a deer. I left 2.5 acres on my farm for 20 years. The deer just bend over and eat,no energy lost in digging Once all the beans were harvest,all the deer will migrat to your beans and they know what they look like standing.The colder it gets the closer they will bed to the beans.It took him about 20 minutes to prepare, spray and plant round -up -ready -soya beans. You have two types early,and late which is important because they have mature time. Farmers are busy, but it sounded like you already grow soya beans. That's where you want to put your permanent ground blind. When I rented out my farm,I shared crop and it didn't cost anything. Later the farmer,who did the local area would zip in and only charged 200 bucks. pretty cheap?
I counted one day, 240 deer in different groups feed from day light to dark,( feed time 20 minutes / group ). It's funny a herd of 7 one year came across in the spring just after it was replanted. They stopped where it was and looked the field over for around 20-30 minutes,then went into the woods. After a while,they can out to the same spot and looked the field over for another long period of time.
I put in a permanent blind,just a box with a slanted roof and had a heater in the blind for sitting all day. Magazines and food kept me in the blind.I could watch from the kitchen or from the blind.