By Mark Hicks, OutdoorChannel.com
You had big plans for planting food plots last spring to improve your odds of tagging a trophy whitetail come fall. But turkey season, fishing and honeydo chores took precedence. Suddenly, it’s Labor Day and too late to plant. Or is it?
Bill Peneston, a Quality Deer Management expert with the Heartland Wildlife Institute, claims that you still have time to do a planting that will drastically improve your odds for tagging a late-season bruiser buck.
“I recommend planting before Labor Day, but you can plant until mid September throughout much of the Midwest and even a little later in the South,” Peneston said.
There is no time left to...