Deer baiting a topic of debate
Baiting, the practice where deer food sources such as corn, sugar beets, apples, sweet potatoes, nuts or various commercial preparations are placed near hunting locations, is meant to attract deer to the food so that hunters can shoot them. It can be as simple as dumping the bait on the ground or in troughs, or it can be as detailed as using various types of feeders that dispense food via gravity or battery-powered release mechanisms at set times.