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Last Chance Food Plots

Planting now still improves chances of tagging bruiser buck

Last Chance Food Plots
Last Chance Food Plots

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.

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