Do when do they quit hitting the weeds ? The reason I ask is I have short soybeans with weeds, clover, alfalfa mixed in. I’m thinking of just letting it ride. No spray . High deer density (Minnesota) . Like 20-25 deer per sit.
When they dry out & go to seed. Game over. Probably have another 30 days of deer nipping them & done.
. Deer chow all fall…. really…. All winter & first thing in spring to green up.
From experience, if you hunt the late season you'll kick yourself in the a** for not having something other than a dried out and gone weed plot. I'm disking under several small non RR alfalfa plots that I can't keep up with the weeds in anymore. This fall planting turnips early Aug and back in RR alfalfa next spring.
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FWIW, I think the notion that you may not have a real winter hardy variety established as mentioned by SB3 is likely valid FWIW. Even though fields of clover and alfalfa are normally nibbled down to the dirt by say mid-Feb...I am also struck that on a drive over to Pella, IA, last year to pick up a blind from Buck Hollow/Boyd...every deer I saw that afternoon was in an alfalfa field. This was in mid-to-late March as I recall.
