ORIGINAL: Buck_Slayer
Do deer like to eat the tops off wheat at all? Last year where I am putting my stand it was a beet field and the deer funnel through there like crazy. I am wondering if the different crop will have that big of an effect on where they go. There was one field of beets directly south of where I will be. There is another location that I could go that would be beans. But evertyhing else is wheat.
Different crops will have a big effect on where the deer go to feed at night. That's a given.
All thewheat and barley fields will be combined by the start of bow season here.
Post harvest for Wheat and Barley ( when it greens back up ),makes for good hunting. No combine with get it all and the reason for green up after harvesting the fields. Throw in a little hail late in growing seasonor lodging from the windcan havesome fields greening up pretty good.
Soybeans out pretty much out for our early start of bow season.Brown and dieing finds the deer moving to greened up fields.Greened up Barley fieldsare as good as it gets. Greened up wheat fields will not be bad. Fall planted winter wheat fields will also be a hot spot but needs abouttwo weeks after planting. Deer will moved back intosoybeans after harvest which is Oct to mid Oct.
With the post harvested fields, you are at the mercy of the farmer when hedigs them up to kill the green up. Takes about 2 weeks for the fields to green up after harvest or cultivating.
Even though you say it is far too drive for scouting, I would do some long range scouting right before bow season to see where you are at with the fields. If not... do some mid day drives when you start hunting to see what the fields are like.
Tim