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Old 10-29-2008, 10:13 AM   #1
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Simple question really-- My land owner'sbean fields are cut, andhis winter wheat is starting to come up pretty good.


Do the deer really eat the winter wheat? Doesn't seem like I've seen them in it very often in the past.
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Old 10-29-2008, 10:28 AM   #2
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Do the deer really eat the winter wheat?

Yes. However, it may be that in your area, it's not really a preferred food source. I've always seen lots of deer over a good winter wheat stand, but there's very few crops planted in my hunting areas. I'd say the later in the season the better chance they'll turn on to the winter wheat, once the preferred foods are gone.


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Old 10-29-2008, 10:34 AM   #3
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Alright, thanks. The deer in my area are probably kinda spoiled I guess. They get corn and beans. Last year there was a foodplot as well.
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Old 10-29-2008, 01:22 PM   #4
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Yes, deer do eat it. In the area where I hunt, wheat fields will gather lots of them. This past saturday evening, there was 22 in one of the fields. The field is about 300x100 yards. We don't plant biologic or tecomonte or beans or clover or anything else like that though, It's pretty much woods, cattle pastures and wheatfields.
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Old 10-29-2008, 01:33 PM   #5
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Here in Illinois, I found that winter wheat fields are better late in the year. I love hunting winter wheat in Dec, have always had luck.
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Old 10-29-2008, 01:36 PM   #6
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I imagine if the deer could see the wheat over the (still standing) corn fields here, they might eat it. LOL!
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Old 10-29-2008, 02:05 PM   #7
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we have a food plot that has half in winter wheat and half in winter oats....dont really think there is muc diffrence in the two as far as the deer are concerned....but with the massive ammount of acors we have right now i dont think its going to make a huge diffrence no matter what is planted the acors are a natural food and they will take to them first before anything
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Winter wheat is an excellent place to see deer in my area.
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Old 10-29-2008, 09:31 PM   #9
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ok, Ive got a stand right on the corner of where a winter wheat field and a cut bean field intersect each other. Ill probably try and save it for the late season hunting then!

That could explain why I've never seen deer feeding on it, because as this is my first season bow hunting, I've never really gotten a chance to hunt late into the season! I figured they ate it of course, I just thought maybe it wasn't one of their preferred foods!
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