He and his buds make a bunch of sausage each year and does are culled at the end of the season. If you want to call it a “canned hunt” I suppose it is. They come to the feeder and he takes them.
“Canned” hunting is where the animals “in pursuit” and in a fence in area of various size in which say animal cannot escape.
What you friend does is a baited “field” where the animal is drawn in by the bait. Depending on what/where and when and what is defined as “baited”, it is illegal in Tennessee to hunt in a “baited” field.
A crop planted in order to lure the game animal is a baited field
A crop planted in order to harvest(even if it “isn’t) is not a “baited field”a baited field and is legal.
Crazy but game laws often are.