BSK,

My recent observations of deer on our ranch here in south Texas agree with your post on weeds. We have a 140 acre field inside our high fence in which we farm milo and soybeans commercially. During the winter, instead of intensively working the soil i.e. discing for next springs crop, I just let the field go fallow. There are all kinds of weeds currently growing in the field. The deer uses this fallow row crop land immensely during this time of year. The idea to include some of our commercially farmed row crop land inside the high fence was one of the best management decision I ever made. The deer feed in this field all season long. They eat soybeans from Feb. to late May. Then I come in with a later maturing variety of bean from June to Oct. They have the white-grain milo from about June to Aug. Then, they are eating weeds from about Oct. to Feb. Plus, I plant about 10 acres of lablab in the summer and about 10 acres of Austrian winter peas in the fall. Currently, the deer are walking right through the Austrian winter peas to get to the weeds growing in the row crop land. They must really like weeds.