Planting native grasses in your food plot provides many advantages to deer, turkeys and other wildlife using your land. This Squidoo lens was designed to provide you with helpful food plot tips and techniques so you will get the most out of your planting.

Very dark, disturbing paper detailing the U.S. plot to gain exclusive control over world markets for food production through the use of so-called "suicide seeds". Monsanto, the U.S.-based multinational, multibillion dollar agri-biotech company who owns the technology, seeks to replace indigenous crop varieties with these sterile-seed plants.

A food plot is a planted area set aside to act as a food source for wildlife. The term was coined by the U.S. hunting and outdoor industries. Food plots generally consist of but are not limited to legumes (clovers, alphalpha, beans, etc.) or forage grasses.Most products used for food plots are or were derived from agricultural variants of forages. Some of the oldest companies to start selling products for food plots are Whitetail Institute of North America in 1988 and Mossy Oak BioLogic shortly there after.In 2001 the United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced that 8.7 million people across the country maintained some sort of planting for the sole benefit of wildlife. This group of people spent $699 million on these plantings.Food plots generally differ from a similar planting called re-vegetation. Re-vegetation generally refers to planting naturally growing grasses, legumes, shrubs, and trees. Food plots will provide higher nutritional value plants than what nature has supplied, therefore a higher density and diversity of animals will thrive near a food plot. Target animalsWhitetail deerTurkeyBearMooseRabbitSong birdsGrouseWoodchuck