Farmhunter, I don't have a problem with resident geese and unfortunately don't have turkeys either. I will have a small amount of groundhog and rabbit damage but deer are the big threat. I was going to plant the clover early, about 6 weeks before the corn. Think that will get established enough to help by then? I plan to plant my corn about two weeks behind the farmer next door, hoping the deer get on his crop and don't realize mine's available so soon. Yeah, right. I'll delay my beans by the same amount behind the nearest other beans, partly for early browse relief but also because it seems they peak in attractiveness to the deer during the second week of November, our rut in Maryland, if I plant around July 1.

No one has commented much on whether or not a Brassicas or some other plant will take pressure off in the Fall. I know they have lost interest in my clover shortly after the first frost in prior years.