Danny Wahl - Missouri




I have been a big fan of Whitetail Institute’s products for a long time, especially Imperial Whitetail Clover.
I have been planting it for more than 12 years now. My best food plot is located in a flood plain. I have five smaller plots located here and there over my 200 acre farm but this one is in a natural travel corridor between bedding and feeding areas. It is secluded with very little visibility surrounded on two sides by a bluff, one side by the creek and the back side has the beds. Over the years my friends and I have taken some pretty nice animals off of it but in the last 5 years I have to say the size of the bucks and number of deer seen are awesome. Before that time frame I borrowed equipment or rented it and tried to get by with the minimum. My plots were nothing to look at! The weeds took them over and it was a job bush hogging them. The deer visited them and benefited some but you get what you pay for. A few years ago I bought my own tractor and equipment and I started doing soil tests, applying lime and fertilizer as needed. That with the aid of another fine product called Arrest Herbicide also made by the Whitetail Institute has given me the best looking food plots around. Deer numbers have soared!

What once was a woods dominated by 7-pointers has transformed into one with numerous 10-pointers and a couple of “Booners” show themselves every year! Last years food plot looked so good I wanted to put a little salad dressing on it and eat it myself! Photo #1 shows what the deer looked like on my place just a few years ago. In the background you can see my food plot with a lot of brown in it and some remaining weeds.

Photo #2 shows a buck that was featured in Whitetail News two years ago. He is a main frame 10 along with an additional 6 non-typical points grossing 164-1/2 inches. My best buck ever! He was taken at the edge of a bedding area located just downwind of a food plot.



Photo #3 shows another nice 10 pointer that I harvested as he was going into the food plot from this season.



Photo #4 is a trail cam photo of a nice 10 pointer with some kickers off of both G-2’s as he came from a food plot on the opposite end of my farm returning to his bed.



Photo #5 is a close up shot of my food plot. As you can see the stems that are sticking up without tips on them is evidence of heavy grazing!