The meat from grain fed whitetails in Iowa/Kansas/Missouri/Nebraska is better than any other wild meat that I've eaten. The best eating deer have been those taken during the late, January, antlerless season when nobody has been chasing them for awhile and they've been eating waste grain.
When we had the ranch near Cottonwood Falls, KS, the deer ate a lot of sage and the meat had a distinct sage smell when cooked and was less marbled than deer that were eating a lot of waste grain.
