The Kid Posted July 28, 2011 Report Share Posted July 28, 2011 I have behind the house located an 80 acre bean field and earlier in the summer were getting lots of pictures of some good bucks. Now that the corn has grown high enough for the deer to be in I have not recieved any pictures on my trail cam. In your experience do the deer eat the pods on the bean plants or just the leafs. I was just wondering if their going to be back in the bean fields eating again before the beans get hard? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted July 28, 2011 Report Share Posted July 28, 2011 I could be wrong.....but this is what I have observed with my bean food plots...... Early season deer consume the green leaves. Late season they consume the harden pod with bean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted July 28, 2011 Report Share Posted July 28, 2011 Deer will eat the beans to the ground here pretty well any time until it gets real late, especially forage types of beans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted August 3, 2011 Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 I could be wrong.....but this is what I have observed with my bean food plots...... Early season deer consume the green leaves. Late season they consume the harden pod with bean. same thing here in Iowa. they hammer the beans early and then late they go back to the fields and pick up the lefts overs. this is why some guys use beans as food plots. then late in the season the deer flock to them like magnets. Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrown Posted August 6, 2011 Report Share Posted August 6, 2011 I was scouting a place I have permission to hunt two years ago in Kansas, I was watching a bachelor group of bucks feeding in a Soy Bean field, this was September time frame. They where munching down on the leaves like it was NO BODIES business! That was just my observation, I'm sure they where eating the beans also, but I saw em eating leaves too, ALOT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosierhunter Posted August 6, 2011 Report Share Posted August 6, 2011 The deer with crush the beans until they start to turn. The main reason is that he acorn crop really starts to drop then and they transition to other mast crops. Once late season hits those standing beans are now the easiest way to get fat built back up and they crush them again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrown Posted August 6, 2011 Report Share Posted August 6, 2011 I don't think deer will choose acorns over soybeans. Beans are ALOT higher in nutrients and easier to digest than acorns. I have seen deer go out their way to hit white oaks over red and black oak groves, just mainly because there less in botanic acid. We have problems with crop deprivation on beans. Not to mention they hit them from the time the leaves start turning till after the harvest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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