will deer corn grow corn?

[FITZGERALD]

odd question i know but ive been thinkin about plantin some corn plots this spring and im wonderin if i could plant deer corn? has anyone else planted corn for deer? hey it works in the midwest

[quarterback]

Some of it will. There was corn growing under one of my feeders the last time I was out.

[BigL]

from the looks of it this year under my feeder, you need rain and the deer not to eat it.

[Txjourneyman]

Yes

[aaronm]

Its growing in the back of my truck right now! Im a traveling corn feild.

[Ole Shep]

No,Corn is almost all hy-bred. I am not a expert on subject,But they say with out humans corn will not last but a few years.Indians bred it from a maize. I think yellow dent corn might produce a ear. you can get a stalk but not a ear from hy-breds. Again I am not shure about this. Seed corn is high $ and you have to take care of it.

[Landrover]

It will grow but not what you want to do if you are doing a real foodplot.

[DFWPI]

Yes, at one point years ago, had 3' stalks under a feeder that was not getting hit due to flooding at the lease

[ccolley68]

As stated before, the corn you are used to seeing in the fields along the highway is not what you will grow with deer corn. It is a totally and completely human created crop. Corn the Indians grew was no more than waist high. Same goes for turn of the century. We have created this super corn. Will corn left untouched under a deer feeder with a lot of rain, or in the bed of your pickup, start to grow? Yes. But it will be a fledgling of a plant that will never become anything. You must maintain corn and take care of it, almost like a child. You can't just drive through your pasture and toss corn seed out, hope for some rain, and grow a feed plot full of corn.

[rocky]

Some of it will. There was corn growing under one of my feeders the last time I was out.

from the looks of it this year under my feeder, you need rain and the deer not to eat it.

Yes

Its growing in the back of my truck right now! Im a traveling corn feild.

It will grow but not what you want to do if you are doing a real foodplot.

Yes, at one point years ago, had 3' stalks under a feeder that was not getting hit due to flooding at the lease

But will it produce ears?

[leebtattoos]

not sure if it actually produces corn but we had a lot growing under feeders up until the cold snap and deer started coming back to corn again

[Landrover]

But will it produce ears?

some will, most won't and the majority of the ears will be deformed. Get a few sacks to do a plot that are for your region of the state. Dekalb, Pioneer or Asgrow all have varieties for the region.

[FITZGERALD]

well so far im thinkin that it wont produce anything useful i guess. still would like to plant some though just gotta find out more about it i guess

[quarterback]

Hopefully not to hijack but i have a corn related question to those that know. Being the good Texan that I am, and driving thru the countryside in late spring I notice a lot of corn being grown. Drive down those same roads in, say July and that same corn is all burned up! Surely they are doing something profitable with this burned up corn. What? Cattle feed?

[FITZGERALD]

this is good info thanks guys