Food Plots for Wildlife

By: Jodi Henke

Help wildlife get through the fall and winter with a food plot. You can plant specific forages and vegetation for them, or you can make use of what’s already there on the farm at no or little cost.

Adam Janke is an extension wildlife specialist at Iowa State University. He says weedy areas along the edges of fields, wetlands or idled areas in the barn lot provide many habitat benefits. There are plenty of opportunities in the pasture or crop fields as well.