Jarvis,

You’re blessed to have production agriculture fields on the neighboring properties.  I’ll assume that there is plenty of quality warm season forage in the neighbor’s production soybean field.  If this is a correct assumption, then the real need is a crop to attract deer to your plots during the deer hunting season.  Standing corn and soybeans are both highly favored by deer.  However, it’s very likely these crops would be totally consumed during the growth stage as deer prefer foraging in one acre plots over large production fields.  It’s likely there would be no corn or soybeans in your plots come hunting season.  So to produce a crop in your plots I strongly suggest either planting corn and/or soybeans inside a Gallagher Food Plot Protector System electric fence or planting something less palatable and more browse resistant.

If you don’t wish to protect the crops in your plots till hunting season, then heavily fertilized wheat is a good attraction plot crop that should be planted about 45-60 days before the first expected frost.  If you are an avid turkey hunter, I recommend mixing some white clover with the wheat.  The clover won’t yield much browse during the fall it’s planted, but should have good growth during the following spring.  Turkeys readily consume lush clover and the insects associated with it during the spring!

Growing Deer together,

Grant