Dale,
I got the yield numbers for the University of Georgia study on Duranna Clover production. The dry yield is 4,000lbs in year one and then reaching 4-5 Tons per acre based on the report I read. The 10 tons was not "dry weight" as clover is eaten directly from field stand that is the number I was told to use by Dr. Kent Kammermeyer.
Robert
That's what I thought. Therefore, you can't directly compare 20,000 lb of wet forage to 20,000 lb of corn.
Quick math shows a 150 lb deer will eat 3.75 lb of dry matter in a day. It takes 18.75 lb of forage (20% DM) or 4.2 lb of corn (90% DM) to get that amount.
Had you put your small plots in after you found the deer trail and bedding areas, I would call them bait. Since you said they are old log landings and you had no control over where they were sited, I would call them a food plot.
Dale
