what food is good for deer
Oats are a preferred supplement. Deer enjoy a wide variety of fruits and vegetables such as apples, grapes, small plums, cherries, pears, pumpkin, carrots, snap peas. As with people, individual tastes vary. Acorns and other mast are an important food source.
For the supplemental feeding of 2017 the DNR added this advice  Although deer make use of apples, potatoes, sugar beets, carrots, and many other foods during summer and fall, these provide little benefit for deer during winter conditions....
Corn is planted widely for white-tailed deer and whole kernel corn is an excellent energy source for deer from early fall through winter. In areas where most producing hardwoods are in short supply or are absent, corn can be very important to deer for building winter fat stores.