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Keeping your deer out of food plots in the beginning
Posted on 12/31/18 at 2:21 pm
Posted on 12/31/18 at 2:21 pm
How do you guys do it other than electrical fence. Have about 10 acres that I want to plant in beans and corn. Last time I did it it was all gone before Thanksgiving. I don't have the money and time to fence that much with an electrical fence. How do you all do it without an electrical fence? I would love to have standing beans right about now!
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Posted on 12/31/18 at 2:26 pm to Uncs
When you figure it out let me know. I haven't found anything a deer likes better than a soybean or pea sprout, one night after breaking the surface.
Posted on 12/31/18 at 2:29 pm to Uncs
It doesn’t take that long to run electric fence on a solar charger. It’s also not that costly when you don’t buy a pre-packaged system. The low cost is why most do it that way.
And you don’t fence off the entire plot. You fence smaller portions of the plot and then open them up in the late season
And you don’t fence off the entire plot. You fence smaller portions of the plot and then open them up in the late season
This post was edited on 12/31/18 at 2:30 pm
Posted on 12/31/18 at 3:33 pm to Uncs
Never had a problem with them eating my corn. Hogs/coons will eat it while still green. Try planting later in the year. I usually plant end of june to mid july.
If you have enough coin to plant 10 acres of beans, you have enough to put a wire up.
If you have enough coin to plant 10 acres of beans, you have enough to put a wire up.
Posted on 12/31/18 at 4:58 pm to Uncs
Milorganite and you have to keep re-applying it esp if it rains. Has worked very well on iron clay peas/soybeans/pnuts
Posted on 12/31/18 at 5:05 pm to Theotherpikecounty
My experience with electric fence is it requires yearly maintenance even if you haven’t planted anything. Deer and/or hogs will run through it and you’ll have to reset the poles and wire constantly. You have to keep the weeds sprayed back year round. It’s absolutely effective but if you can’t be on the property every few days I wouldn’t recommend it.
Posted on 12/31/18 at 6:21 pm to Uncs
Grocery bags of human hair
Posted on 12/31/18 at 6:56 pm to X123F45
Put up a stand and a feeder. They will leave.
Posted on 12/31/18 at 7:20 pm to Theotherpikecounty
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If you have enough coin to plant 10 acres of beans, you have enough to put a wire up.
I know fencing is not very costly but the seed for 10 acres of food plots should only run you at most $100
Posted on 12/31/18 at 7:50 pm to highcotton2
Iron clay peas for me are $38/bag. I broadcast 60lbs/acre. You can drill < 1/2 of that but deer/hogs will eat it that much faster. I planted 12 acres over the course of a few weeks hoping it would help slow down pressure from browsing (didn’t help at all). It was well over $500
Posted on 12/31/18 at 7:57 pm to plazadweller
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Iron clay peas for me are $38/bag
Yea, I thought we were talking soybeans not peas.
Posted on 12/31/18 at 8:13 pm to highcotton2
Soybeans are more expensive correct? Eagle beans were expensive the last time priced a bag
For a deer plot I’d never suggest soybeans because they are way more susceptible to browning pressure.
For a deer plot I’d never suggest soybeans because they are way more susceptible to browning pressure.
Posted on 12/31/18 at 8:23 pm to plazadweller
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Soybeans are more expensive correct?
Soybeans are $8.82 per bushel ( 60 lbs.) today. Go to any local farmer with a grain bin and tell him you want to buy some beans for $10 and they will more than likely fix you up.
This post was edited on 12/31/18 at 8:24 pm
Posted on 12/31/18 at 9:13 pm to plazadweller
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requires yearly maintenance
When I did it once I just put up a very shotty but cheap fence that I took completely down. I used pvc for the poles with little notches cut in to hold 2 strands of wire. The wire was the poly string stuff with little strands of metal wire woven within. Then I rigged the spools of wire so they could be chucked up in a drill and wound up that way.
The peas grew about 2ft tall and looked great but the problem was the plot was only about 1/3acre and the deer decimated it in couple of night once they discovered the fence wasn't there anymore.
Posted on 12/31/18 at 9:37 pm to highcotton2
Forage type soybeans are expensive as hell. This is deer forage not regular soybeans.
Posted on 12/31/18 at 11:55 pm to Warrior Poet
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Forage type soybeans are expensive as hell. This is deer forage not regular soybeans.
Then you need to plant regular soybeans. What is the variety of the “forage” soybeans you are planting?
I suspect the only difference is a determinate vs indeterminate trait which is also available in a regular ag soybean but of course you will not be able to specify in bin bought beans. But for the difference in price that some game company is pedaling these varieties I would think twice about using them.
This post was edited on 1/1/19 at 12:01 am
Posted on 1/1/19 at 12:54 am to highcotton2
Regular soybeans turn to pods before you get to take advantage of hunting over them in the early season or the rut. A hybrid forage bean will have green leaves longer than a traditional soybean and produce food that attracts deer well into hunting season. I have seen them called hybrids and I believe I am talking about determinate vs indeterminate as you said. But I have always just called them forage beams because they continue leaf growth while developing pods. I am not entirely sure if they are indeterminate, because I’ve always thought indeterminate beans continued to flower but their foliage did not grow after pods developed. Either way, when forage beans turn to pods and cold weather sets in during the late season, the deer will go to them like they would any other bean.
School me if I’m wrong. I do plots and would love to find a cheaper way. I am getting bean seeds for around $80 per hundred.
School me if I’m wrong. I do plots and would love to find a cheaper way. I am getting bean seeds for around $80 per hundred.
This post was edited on 1/1/19 at 1:03 am
Posted on 1/1/19 at 1:42 am to Warrior Poet
Forage beans like Eagle brand are just a indeterminate soybean which means they keep putting on leaves and flowering until a killing frost unlike determinate beans that stop growing according to daylight hours. Same thing with Austrian winter peas they are the same as a Canadian forage pea but cost more because they are marketed towards deer hunters.
This post was edited on 1/1/19 at 1:44 am
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