I hear you, some spots in WI are below goal, but in the farm country around here, it's way over goal. We've been planting foodplots for many years now, our deer management group became a dealer for the Whitetail Institute, (Imperial brand products) four years ago. At our place here, this year we planted five and a half acres of foodplots, all annuals, it does the deer good while it's there, that should be enough to get them into March, but it will be gone before the middle of Jan.
The neighbors take advantage of it by posting close to the fence line, but it is what it is. We'll just keep doing our thing, we were doing the management three years before the neighbors decided to try it. They couldn't figure out where all these bucks were coming from all of a sudden
Dah!
I keep saying we'll do what we can, we harvested nine does this year and one buck. But the neighbors will still say there is no deer. If that was true, we wouldn't of been able to harvest nine does!