Baiting vs. food plots - what's the difference? Are they the same? Here's a look at how each practice differs when it comes to attracting deer.... Read more... The post Baiting vs. Food Plots: What’s the Difference? appeared first on Bowhunting.com. Continue reading...
Only difference I really care about is what is legal or not, nobody can say that a plot is not planted with the intent of manipulating deer movement.
I can see both sides of the argument. In my mind food plots are more ethical because they generally serve a wider scope of wildlife needs beyond hunting. Baiting on the other hand is generally pretty one goal oriented, to congregate animals at one condensed point of a few square feet. A food plot is going to contribute to a much broader nutritional purpose and is there full time without having to be restocked by hand and on any schedule.
I heard it explained pretty well how baiting and food plots are different when it comes to spreading disease. You could go to a party in a room and if one person has a cold it does not mean that every person in the room is going to get a cold, that is a food plot. If every person in the room with the person that had a cold drank from the same cup odds are there would be many people that would catch a cold and that is baiting.
Passing those half gallons of fireball around, one never knows what they’ll end up with! Edit: pretty sure I ended up with EHD and CWD both at some point in time from it. Or maybe it was something else, but it ended in a D.
I always trust that Fireball will kill anything it comes in contact with so things will be just fine.
If you plant a field in corn as part of a commercial farming operation and then leave behind or bushog down part of it purely coincidentally nearby to where you have a deer stand... is that a foodplot or baiting or neither? Asking for a friend.
