KnuckleDragr
Active Member
Although I don't have the opportunity to hunt over either; I do find way more sheds around fields when they are planted in beans as opposed to corn.
supserdave
PMA Member
Hay has been trumping both in my neck of the woods as of late, but sadly not my hay field.
I think being off the road a ways and unpressured makes a difference to.
I think being off the road a ways and unpressured makes a difference to.
CurtisWalker
Well-Known Member
Beans and alfalfa have been the best for me this year.. it seems whatever is more beneficial they go to
Proximity to the road, and amount of traffic, are the biggest factor were I have been hunting. One cut cornfield I hunt had a ton of sign, but also a lot of trucks circling the section at last light. The deer came out way late. Otherwise I have seen groups of 20 deer out on corn, beans, and hay fields. I really thought the preventative acres planted with radishes and turnips would have more action.
muzzleloader128
Member
we have shot seven off a picked corn field late muzzleloader, bean field next to it and they are in the corn every night, not a one in the beans
SEIowaDeerslayer
Well-Known Member
Deer in my areas are feeding in the cornfields at night but pounding the crap out of browse and red oak acorns right now during the day. Ridge tops are just torn up from the pawing up the snow. Unless you have standing beans I'd think corn is king.
in2harrisonCO
New Member
Great post. I was planing on starting the same.
in2harrisonCO
New Member
I had a great hunt a couple years ago. I was hunting the first shotgun season with 6 inches of snow on the ground on a cut corn field. a tree had fallen into the cornfield and the farmer avoided that with the combine when picking the field. I I set up a hundred yards from the little bit of standing corn. it was a deer magnet.
in2harrisonCO
New Member
Good luck. I hope you get either the one your after or something even bigger.
kevpann
PMA Member
I personally think there preferences go back and forth thru out the year. But this time of year they go to where they can find the most the easiest. Which if you think about the fields you've walked in. have u noticed the farmers with the older equipment leave more crop in the field then the newer equipment. Start paying attention to this I'd be willing to bet you'll notice there's more deer in the field farmed with older combines this time of year.
JUNIOR
Active Member
This is a tad off topic but back in 2009 we planted a 1.5 acre sweet corn field, and had 5 acres of field corn next to it, we only picked about half of the sweet corn and the farmer left 8 rows of field corn on the edge (due to snow drift from harvesting late), so we had tons of food! Counted about 100 deer a night in our 6.5 acre field, had a 160" 10 point and 9 does come across the road every night at 5:23-5:25,we haven't had action like that since that year with a regular crop rotation.....fast forward to now, there is a 20 acre alfalfa field next to crossroads church down the street from me that has 30-40 deer in it a night, Im sayin deer go to where the most food is obviously! 
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12twal
New Member
In sw minnesota it seems that when it's extremely cold the deer just hammer the standing beans with a lot less sign around standing corn. We have some public land with four different food plots two standing bean and two standing corn which alternate every year. The beans through late season and all through shed season are always completely tore up with sign and the corn isn't used near as much. I always thought if I owned ground and wanted to keep deer through the winter I would definitely leave standing beans versus standing corn.