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By placing an exclusion cage within a food plot, landowners can monitor plant growth, as well as how heavily deer are browsing the plot. (Photo courtesy of Jacob Dykes, Ph.D.)

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Installing two-tiered polywire electric fences can reduce the impact of white-tailed deer browsing on newly established food plots. (Photo courtesy of Jacob Dykes, Ph.D.)

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Despite the summer heat, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension wildlife specialists say the time to begin preparing cool-season wildlife food plots is now. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Michael Miller)

Thu, 08/24/2023 - 4:00am

As cicadas herald the dog days of summer and tripledigit temperatures blanket the state, cool, quiet mornings in a deer blind overlooking a food plot are a distant dream.However, if you want to ensure mornings like this in the future, the time to begin preparing a food plot is now,

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