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Post by tskiller on Aug 3, 2006 10:07:10 GMT -5
How many bushels per acre do soybeans yield, on average? The reason I am asking is I'm thinking about asking the farmer where I hunt to leave some beans in the field as a late season food source, and I would pay him the market price. Want to know what kind of hit to the wallet it would be. I do not have the time/equipment/land/desire to plant my own food plot(s). Thanks
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Post by Woody Williams on Aug 3, 2006 10:09:55 GMT -5
How many bushels per acre do soybeans yield, on average? The reason I am asking is I'm thinking about asking the farmer where I hunt to leave some beans in the field as a late season food source, and I would pay him the market price. Want to know what kind of hit to the wallet it would be. I do not have the time/equipment/land/desire to plant my own food plot(s). Thanks Let him pick it all and then come back and put in a food plot for you. He has the equipment and all you'd have to do is pay him for his time and the seed. Just a suggestion.. |
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Post by buckeater on Aug 3, 2006 11:18:20 GMT -5
we average around 50- 60 bushles per acre on our beans. it might be hard to get him to leave some because i cant even get my dad to leave little spots out like that
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Post by Decatur on Aug 3, 2006 11:23:18 GMT -5
Probably because the market can vary so much, and they need every penny to stay a float.
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Post by cambygsp on Aug 3, 2006 11:27:15 GMT -5
I didn't think late beans were a good food source.....I know the deer like them early in the summer and they eat the shoots off them, but they don't hit them too much after that.
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Post by mbogo on Aug 3, 2006 11:30:23 GMT -5
Offer to pay the farmer to plant a small plot of winter wheat for you. It will last longer and be a better draw in the late season than beans will.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Aug 3, 2006 11:31:27 GMT -5
How many bushels per acre do soybeans yield, on average? The reason I am asking is I'm thinking about asking the farmer where I hunt to leave some beans in the field as a late season food source, and I would pay him the market price. Want to know what kind of hit to the wallet it would be. I do not have the time/equipment/land/desire to plant my own food plot(s). Thanks You can offer to help him by driving the grain truck & accidentally leave a grain shoot open. ;D |
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Post by mudstrider on Aug 3, 2006 12:04:56 GMT -5
I've heard that deer would rather eat the stray beans that fall on the ground because they get moist and are softer to eat.
Anybody else hear this, or is it a myth?
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Post by eelriver on Aug 3, 2006 12:28:00 GMT -5
Current bean prices are from $5.46 - $5.55 / bu. and the yield will vary from 40 to 75 bu./ac. depending on several things. I agree with the best deer plot being winter wheat; but that is planted in mid-Sept. the beans won't be picked by then. Leaving some standing beans might be the simple way. Also, works well for your quail/pheasants.
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Post by woodmaster on Aug 3, 2006 12:44:43 GMT -5
I didn't think late beans were a good food source.....I know the deer like them early in the summer and they eat the shoots off them, but they don't hit them too much after that. Watch the hunting videos and a lot of the guys will have the farmers leave beans to hunt over during the late seasons. Winter wheat will die out after the temp. gets around 20 to 25 degrees. |
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Post by buckskiner on Aug 3, 2006 12:56:26 GMT -5
If you walk the field after he picks the beans you will see
lots of loose beans on the ground.and with some good fall
rain they will soon sprout and deer love new sprouts .
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Post by buckeater on Aug 3, 2006 14:29:31 GMT -5
I didn't think late beans were a good food source.....I know the deer like them early in the summer and they eat the shoots off them, but they don't hit them too much after that.
Beans that are left in the field are a deer magnet in late season!!!
Watch the hunting videos and a lot of the guys will have the farmers leave beans to hunt over during the late seasons.
Winter wheat will die out after the temp. gets around 20 to 25 degrees.
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i agree, i think standing beans in late season can not be beat. alot of spots that i hunt we have planted winter wheat in after we cut the beans but they dont hit the wheat like they do the beans. i started planting a mix of round up ready corn and beans after we cut the wheat this summer and it is growing really well. and i saved a ton of money by not buying that biomaxx mix. we had round up beans left over that we couldnt take back but since we dont grow roundup ready corn i went to a seed corn company and they just gave me a 25lb bag of corn that they had left over from there test plots. going to go spray it tomarrow to kill all the weeds thats if it doesnt rain.
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