#2024350 - 08/10/10 11:30 AM
Re: Lease Question - Soy Bean Cost
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Mossy Oak
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The farm next to me has soy beans in it just about every year. I see more deer in the field after the beans are harvested. I don't know if this is common or just the way it is around here.
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#2024376 - 08/10/10 11:42 AM
Re: Lease Question - Soy Bean Cost
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Wes Parrish
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The farm next to me has soy beans in it just about every year. I see more deer in the field after the beans are harvested. I don't know if this is common or just the way it is around here.
It is common.
Deer are mainly using green, growing soybeans as a preferred summer food source. After the leaves start drying up, other natural food items start coming into greater play, especially if one of those choices becomes falling acorns.
However, after soybeans are harvested, that fertile ground will often sprout a smorgasboard of new grow, that becomes a very attractive new "food plot".
The problem is that the beans are so close to the trees that we really can't get in to plant our own food plots. Any suggestions on "no-plow" feed?
Here's my suggestion: Don't worry about not having any other "food plots".
Simply top seed some brassicas and clover immediately after the farmer harvests his soybeans. Verify first with him that this is OK. This will provide you with a little extra fall/winter forage, and probably a lot more than you could achieve with small food plots back in your wooded areas. And it's cheap, too.
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