I probably wouldn't do it unless it was at least a couple acres worth. Any smaller than that, they're going to eat it all and you'll end up hauling in bags anyway.
Spencie I'm doing it more for a road screen but also know deer plain love corn.
I plant about 1 acre every year at my house and it works great for attracting deer. First of all they love the cover it provides when all the other crops are gone, second, it provides much desired food source in the late winter. I usually don't plant it too early, somewhere around Mid to late May if possible. There has been wet years where we didn't get it out til June and it did just fine, and then was still a little green when the surrounding fields were turning brown. I add fertilizer to it when planting, then when its about 6 inches tall spread about 200 lbs of urea on it right before a rain event. That will make it shoot up. Also, use roundup ready corn and make sure you spray it once or twice before it gets too tall. I use an ATV with sprayer attached to the back, works great.
I probably wouldn't do it unless it was at least a couple acres worth. Any smaller than that, they're going to eat it all and you'll end up hauling in bags anyway.
Can you give an approximate cost for your one acre?
Yep, not bad at all. And if you contact your local Pheasants Forever chapter there's a really good chance you'll get some RR seed for free.Jim, for 1 acre you are looking at $42 for urea, $20 for triple 10 or 12 starter fertilizer, a $20 dollar jug of glyphosate...
and don't forget your most expensive cost....the roundup ready corn itself sells for between 160 and 200 dollars per bag...that will seed between 2.5 and 3 acres...so if you are conservative and divide 160 by 3..that's a little over $50 per acre just for the seed.
Adding those costs up I came up with $135 to plant 1 acre. Of course you wouldn't have to add as much urea...but if you are going to the trouble of planting it..you might as well give it plenty of fertilizer.