New York stinks.. No feeding

Food plots do the exact same and unlike bait or mineral which get depleated, food plot crops get contaminated they continue to grow remaining contaminated. banning baiting and minerals and not food plotting is hypocritical.

 

I agree in principle.
But, hypocritical, short sighted or unenforceable?

What I mean is, are politicians succinctly and legally able to define what a food plot is? (E.g. it could be a winter garden, crop field, etc)...

 

More important, food plotting is more lucrative. Banning has more to do with money than preventing CWD spread.

 

Food plots do congregate deer to an extent... But not like supplemental feed. When you have a 1 acre food plot, not every deer comes out and feeds in a 3x3 area. They are spread out, in most cases. When you have a feed station you can have a handful of deer feeding with their noses almost touching. That is when disease is able to spread the fastest...

I don't want to just concentrate on disease though. There are numerous other downfalls to baiting besides just the disease aspect. A couple have been mentioned in previous comments.

 

Come on man... You can't possibly think that the state only has money in mind when they develope management plans for the state. These states are getting this info from studies done by universities and wildlife biologists. They aren't just deciding it on a whim. Plus, if baiting was fully legal, then you would have people planting plots AND feeding. Which would bring in more money...

The state I live in actually has a deer management plan for free. If you have at least 800 acres, they come out and do trail camera surveys, advise on planting, put together a timber management, you can send in jaw bones to be aged for free, they asses your buck to doe ratio, tell you how many does need to harvested, and so on. And it's all for free...

States are interested in what is best for the overall heard, that's what it boils down too. The guys know what they are doing

 

No they don't care about money. State Deer management has always been about money. How many deer will maximize the revenue from hunting while minimizing the damage to personal property and crops. To think they don't take what is better for the economy into decisions is short sighted.

And your point about food plots not congregating deer to the extent of food plots is false. They congregate them more, you will end up with more deer per acre with food plots than with supplemental feeding. Sure they are not eating as much nose to nose, but if you watch plots, they do gather and eat in tight groups. And on top of that, as I pointed out before. contaminated feed gets depleted and replaced with uncontaminated feed. When an infected animal eats in a food plot it contaminates every plant that it nibbles on.

 

It sounds as if CWD is in the area, it appears easier to find blame than realize that CWD spreads naturally. Using the logic I have seen applied here it is my fault I have deer ticks on my land because I feed the deer.