With their large eyes, black noses, and fuzzy ears, deer are often a welcome sight on dreary winter days. Yet, while it may ...

It's well into harvest time for local farmers, and with the corn stalks coming down, the number of deer-vehicle collisions ...

This was one of my early-season picks, but I’m including it here too because I’ve seen December deer ignore corn and soybeans to dig through a foot of snow and feed in a newly seeded alfalfa ...

The president of the Illinois Farm Bureau says better management of the state’s deer herd is at the forefront of member’s ...

If most of the corn is harvested before the gun season starts, that usually plays in a hunter's favor as well. We want crisp, cool, calm weather. A little bit of frost. Deer will move better and ...

Hunters typically benefit when corn, especially, has been harvested. Standing corn provides a shelter for deer. So deer numbers and crop harvests have tilted odds in hunters' favor this year.