cory46928 Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 As I was sitting in the stand the other evening overlooking the standing corn, I was wondering, what do deer prefer, corn or beans? Or do you think the rather eat on nuts? I was just wondering since I'm going to buy and leave stand a 1/4 acre of the corn. Will it draw in deer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 Standing corn in the LATE season should pull the deer in from all over. If any corn in left they will have food and cover all in one place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorden Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 Right now they are probably in the acorns. Corn and beans are good late season food sources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backwoods07 Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 They're hitting the green stuff hard by me: clover/alfalfa. Corn is a much better attractant for deer IMO. Unfortunately, our farm is covered in beans, and the neighboring farms are covered in corn that is going to stay up VERY late due to high costs of drying the corn in silos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mule659 Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 They seem to be hitting the acorns pretty hard here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 As others have said...Corn will be a better draw later in the season. On the property I have permission to hunt the Corn is still standing and the edge area of it I walked around had one track in the mud. That track did not enter the corn but skirted around it just to get by some heavy brush that someone piled up:rolleyes: Hmmm wonder who that was:p Anyways...right now thier not touching it at all. They are mowing paths down inbetween the 9 crab apple trees that are around the cornfield. It looks like you or I took a lawn mower and played "Connect-A-Dot" with those apple trees. Then around the bottom of them the hoofprints have every bit of grass trampled flat! Different prefferred foods at different times of the year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flintlock1776 Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 Their stomachs go thru changes throughout the year so they are able to digest what in 'in' for that period of the year. Round the year feeding of corn may have bad effect. I know Deer & Deer Hunting did a good analysis of what deer should be going for depending on the time of the year, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backwoods07 Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 Their stomachs go thru changes throughout the year so they are able to digest what in 'in' for that period of the year. Round the year feeding of corn may have bad effect. I know Deer & Deer Hunting did a good analysis of what deer should be going for depending on the time of the year, Any one thing they should be hitting hard this time of year? On our farm, we have winter wheat comin up, clover, apples, alfalfa...Corn on the neighboring farm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichiganHunter Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 Personal opinion they will take either one, the standing corn multi-tasks and they get food and cover...but when it gets colder and there is less standing corn and into the winter when most all corn is cut I see more deer in cut bean fields than corn....so i would say corn early and late if standing but beans for fat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 It's been primarily green food since Oct. 1 where I hunt in Eastern/Central IL. Beans are being harvested now, but no deer in the cut bean fields at all. I'm seeing very little movement, but when I do they are near water or clover. I have noticed that the corn (that will be up until late Oct.) has been eaten around the perimeter. I hunted that corn field one evening and not one deer showed up. I'm not seeing a lot of acorns on the ground like in past years. I haven't seen the deer eating acorns either. In a week or two a lot of the green leaves in the timber will be gone and I'll bet the cut bean field activity will pick up. I've also heard that a cut bean field will produce new small green plants of some kind that deer love. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layin on the smackdown Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 If i knew how to post it i would...but i have a few pics from my trail cam of 150+ 10 pointer eating beans at 11:00 p.m. and a 125 8pointer doing the same thing at 3:30 a.m. then does and small bucks during daylight hours in the same spot. That being said, i would go with beans until a good cold front. I am located in northwestern IL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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