Looking for tricks, tatics. or anything that might work

[peter p]

It looks like the deer have you patterned.
They probably know you are there and are avoiding you and coming out into the fields until well after dark.
Something like this happened to me a couple of years back. I got busted while I was in my tree stand and when the deer would come out to feed they would look up at the tree stand, see me and go the other way. Sometimes they would just snort and leave and I wouldn't even see them.
The only thing I can suggest is, try to move your stand to a different spot.
You also said there is still some standing corn. I bet there are some deer bedded in there. Try looking for tracks going into the corn which should give you an idea if any deer are in there, then try hunting on the ground watching an area where the deer knocked down the corn to feed.

Good luck

[Shakky]

The deer have patterned you. Show up at 2:00am and spook them keep them from their normal pattern and maybe they will show up when your in your stand.

[Mighty Mooser]

Automatic feeder set to go off once a day at your choice of time. Go an hour or more before to set up. Put it out well in the open so they have to come out well into the open to get it. Eventually they will want to beat each other to the bait, and be first in!

[schnarrfuss]

Have you tried hunting your stand during the middle of the day, such as 10am-2pm.

[BUCKSHOT]

Just a thought here, I am not sure exactlly how R.J would do this but it seems like a good approach!
There was a post by R.J in which he refferenced a two man push!

Get set-up on one of the better looking trails the Deer use to move to another part of the farm, better yet, set your Dad up on one, somewhere outside of the bedding area but still one the Deer will use to travel, especially near a funnel or the most narrow crossing point between two peices of bush across an open area. They always seem to cross at very narrow spots to minimize their time in the open!
Make sure this guy is upwind of the bedding area quite a ways!
Cut yourself a sturdy pole about 5'-6' long.
Approach the bedding area from the downwind side, not directly, approach very slowly and quietly walking in a crisscross. Make long sweeping crisscross still approaching slowly, at one end of the crisscross whack a tree, move to the other end of the crisscross and whack another tree. Make sure you start the whole affair quite a good distance from the bedding area.
I think what you will achieve is a subtle disturbance in which the Deer will be aware and want to leave but they will have plenty of time to move out!
They will simply want to move away from the disturbance to another area which will suffice for refuge for the ballance of that day!
I can bet given the opportunity they will have a favourite second place to go and loaf for the day, especially if they are not jumped or totally affeared.
Find the second place, put your Dad on a trail to it, give the Deer plenty of time to decide that is where they are going, and gently push them to the freezer!
The two man push, proof is in the pudding according to R.J, perhaps he can add some advice, but this is how I see it working and it sounds like a good approach. Also doesn't sound like you have tried it yet.
If you have tried it, sorry it didn't work! If you haven't tried it, I really hope it works for you!
Good Fortune to you and your Dad, Tom!