RE: Opening Day Strategy - Soybeans
 

If the bean are brown then they should be ready to be picked. Once they are voluntary beans will sprout as long as the field is plowed under. I'd stay in that stand.

RE: Opening Day Strategy - Soybeans
 

I'd stay in the stand too.

The fields that I see on my way home from work are (50/50) yellow/brown.

No deer in the morning.

Loaded with deer in the evening (5:30 PM -6:30 PM).
Earlier (5:30 PM if it is overcast) Later (6:00 PM if it is clear)

I will be in a bean field stand on Oct. 6.
The beans will already be picked (if the weather stays dry).

The deer love to suck up the beans that missed the picker.

RE: Opening Day Strategy - Soybeans
 

Good thread, I was going to ask the same question. The stand I have for opening day isalso on a bean field that will not be harvested. Hopefully it works out!

RE: Opening Day Strategy - Soybeans
 

Deer will still hit the field in late season just not as often or as long. I'd be in the oaks

RE: Opening Day Strategy - Soybeans
 

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.

RE: Opening Day Strategy - Soybeans
 

It has been my experience that a Bean field is a great place to hunt when they are green, and when they are completely brown, but around me anyhow - I don't have any luck in them when they are yellow.

That is just my experiences though. Apparently others have had better luck than I have with Beans.

RE: Opening Day Strategy - Soybeans
 

IMO they are awesome to hunt over until they start to die. In my case there is a soybean field that was planted in a cut wheat field in mid July. These beans will still be green the first week or two of the season. It should be a great spot to set up on. After they start to die the deer will leave them until late in the season when they will come back to find the left over soybeans.

RE: Opening Day Strategy - Soybeans
 

Thanks guys. I've never hunted near soybeans before. Last year it was all corn. If I had white oaks around it would be an easy decision. I'm just not sure if deer would prefer RED oaks or Yellow soybeans.

The good news is that the red oaks are very close to the soybean fields. I'll probably set up in the oaks.I think the deer willstage here prior to entering the soybean field.

I also did not know if the deer would still eat yellow soybeans and brown soybeans. Sounds like they will. However, the neighboring properties still have standing corn which could screw up everything for me until the corn comes down.

I glass the beanfields almost every night on my way home from work (around 1 am). I used to see 6 or 8 deer every night. Now I'm lucky to see 1 deer now that the beans are turning yellow.