Grand Rapids, Minn. Food plots, like other game management habitat tools, are fine when it comes to deer, according to Mark Johnson, executive director for the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association. Recreational feeding of deer is not.

Johnson and the MDHA are asking Minnesotans to refrain from deer feeding because of concerns about chronic wasting disease. Feeding can play a role in the transfer of diseases, including CWD and tuberculosis, from one deer to the next. No wild deer in Minnesota have tested positive for CWD. The MDHA has a CWD brochure […]

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