Question for hunting over soy bean fields

[Lowrider]

I know deer eat soy beans while they are green and growing during the summer months but if the beans are not harvested and left on the vine during the winter, do they still eat them? They are always harvested around here so I did not know.

[perry f.]

Yes, especially late season when food sources are slim..... If they last that long

[ISP 5353]

They do in Indiana.  I have often seen them browse the edge of a picked field looking for beans still hanging on the plants or eating beans that spilled off the wagons.

[Lowrider]

Thanks great to know. This next spring I am going to plant one of my food plots in these instead of a winter green plot.

[bretto]

They seem to avoid them in the transition period from green to dry for some reason.

I've seen them leave a field where they were starting to turn yellow overnight.

But as soon as they dry out they come right back to them.

bretto

[KSdan]

They like the early summer green leaves.  Things get bitter as they begin turning to yellow.  They return when the beans are dry.  Late winter beans are the best.