Good nutrition is essential to produce large bodied and large antlered deer.
However, nature does not consistently supply an abundance of high-quality forage to deer. The rationale behind the Tecomate Food Plot System is to ameliorate the variation in the nutritional quality and quantity of natural forages that results from seasonal variations in rainfall and temperature. Food plots can be grown virtually year around in most of the southeastern and southwestern United States. Cool-season food plots provide nutritious forage from late fall through spring. Warm- season food plots planted with Tecomate lablab provide nutritious forage from planting, which should occur after the danger of frost has passed in the spring, until frost.