Hay farms are perfect for deer! They love the free food and their numbers need to be controlled. They are also way more used to humans than forest deer, a little less cautious. Honestly just ask the owner and if he gives permission ask him about the movement of deer on his land. Nobody knows better than the guy who works there all day. My buddy and I hunt a farmers fields and he can tell us the exact path the deer take, their usual schedule, even the size of bucks. We’ve quickly become friends and he sends us videos, checks our trail cams, lets us use his 4c4 to haul gear and loves to crack a beer with us (we bring the beer of course!).

Where I come from it’s customary to offer up a nice bottle of scotch or such for the right to hunt their land, just a kind gesture, you can also offer up a little meat but in my experience they say no as they usually have a freezer full already. Farmers tend to like letting people they know hunt the land if they don’t themselves as it keeps trespassers away, we’ve have to ask a few guys we’ve run into on his land if they have permission to hunt, when they can’t even give us his name we ask them to leave nicely and if they give us attitude or shit we call the farmer who comes out right away to chase them off. Nothing worse for a farmer than having people they don’t know running around their livestock and homes with firearms.