Gzg,

I dont know if this will help, but this sounds a lot like my alfalfa field hunting scenario. It always dries up about 2 weeks prior to my opener. The bucks I am filming and watching all summer and into early August leave the dwindling alfalfa for other preferred food sources for example here: Fruit orchards, clear cuts and thickly dense browsing areas. I have had very little luck hunting the brown dried alfalfa and spend most of my hunting focused in on the hot foods instead... good luck.