Not sure. If they work the field right away it will probably take like two weeks. If they dont work it immediatelyit will start pretty quick.

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

You will be able to geta few weeks with the soy beans. I always hunt them for first 2-3 weeks of the season. They start drying up pretty quick towards the end of september.

You must get your soys planted later in your area. Ours are usually drying up by Sept 1st. He is farther south then us and they usually get under way with planting even earlier by a week to 2 weeks. I wish the soybeans were still green here.

Tim

Quite a few farms around our area also planted wheat this year and I tell you, I figured the winter wheat would have been a deer magnet, I was wrong, it seems the deer in our area are not interested in wheat at all. Most of the wheat is ready to be harvested so well see if this makes a difference.

All of the wheat in our area gets harvested in early June. Winter wheat is a great draw here when it first comes up in late October/ early November.

I will be up there this weekend again, probably Sunday. I am going to check out a few different areas and try to get permission to hunt a couple other places as well. The deer should funnel through the same areas regardless of what the crops are right? it seems like the areas that I hunt mainly have 1 funnel that the deer travel on their way out. Last year they didn't stick around long, they just passed through to another field. Even though you could see that they were feeding off of dropped beets.