Figure this,
I watch my plots here in TN almost daily. Here is what i am seeing as late as today.
Let me preface this by saying these deer primarily (in daylight) use the same plots daily. They dont leave on and walk to another. They leave and return to their bedding area. they dont wander alot and I know they are still in the summer pattern and this will change over the next few weeks.
The deer are still killing my summer plots. Every plot is getting hit hard. Here is a summer plot pic
This is the buckwheat on a down slide after seeding out. I bushhogged and have a great stand currently not this far along yet though
They are not touching my rape or buckwheat at this point. Two of my plots have awp that has not been touched.
300 yrds from there i have a plot where the awp has been devoured. I can only assume that the difference in ph has had a definite effect.
The wheat and oats i have planted attract daily visitors also who stay and graze a long period of time. I did something different with my plots this yr that i think is making a huge difference in daylight sighting. I mixed each plot with stips of winter and summer forage. Last yr several of my plots got void of deer with no pressure at all once the summer plot got frost. Basically after Dec 10th i had several plots that i never sighted a deer in but they were summer plots
Another note
I planted rr beans this yr in an area. I sprayed 1/2 with ru and let the other half go. The beans that were sprayed with round up, had an instance decrease of use. All those deer went to the untreated portion of the field. i dont know if they taste different or the native graases and weeds coming up in the beans provided that much attraction.
anyways enough rambling. i do alot of test like this to see the effects. we have been lucky with our projects. We have produced a 200 inch deer last yr and several that are approaching the 180 inch mark this season.