Self admittedly, I'm new to this midwest thing. Never hunted around beans before. My lease that is down south this year is primarily beans. Depending on where I was sitting tonight, it's anywhere from knee high to waist high. I sat out there tonight just inside the edge of the neighbors corn glassing to see what would come out after the storm during the last hour of light. I saw nothing except approx one million mosquitos. I know this place is polluted with deer, and am shocked I didn't see any. Wind was in my favor and I had the cover of 7' corn the whole way out there.. So are they on the beans yet in your neck of the woods? If not when do you typically see them?
From what ive always been told, they hit beans as soon as they come out of the ground. Maybe you just picked a bad day.
Yes they will be on them from the moment they come out of the ground! I have noticed lately the bugs have been pushing deer out into the field acouple hours before dark! Sent from my arrow using Mathews!
Right now in North central Wisconsin I've been seeing more in green hay fields than beans, but they're hitting the beans. Either there is another field they're hitting before the one you're on or you just picked an unlucky night.
They are heavily in the beans here. Been seeing some good bucks, just no where I have permission. Figures.
They were out in bean fields this week out by Galena. Of course, there are soooo many deer out that way that they were not just in bean fields, but pretty much any field that was short enough to make out the body of a deer. It seemed like that as the week went on the (mature) deer were making to the fields later and later. If I had any energy today I would try to correlate the moon position to my deer observation times to see if there was a connection. I know by Friday evening I was not seeing much for deer activity until right at gray light. Anyways, back to your original question yes they are hitting beans.
Same here in SE Ohio. I've been seeing some potential shooters(still kinda early to be 100%) as early as 4:00 in the afternoon gorging on beans on my way home from work.
beans are only about 5" tall here and deer are crushing them. they love the leaves and later hit the beans. this is why people plant eagle beans in the food plots.
there out feeding on them for sure. most feed at night to early morning where im at, especially browsing on native foods.
We had one deer in our garden last night and ate almost all our green beans. I hope to get a doe tag so I can take her out. Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk
Ya beans get hit hard all year from the moment they sprout, you probably just were out there on the wrong day
Check my plot yesterday and couldn't find a single bean plant in the mix of turnips and other forage, I'm going to need a fence next year because it seems like they are hitting the beans hard here.
I've been seeing deer in the beans almost every night. They're in there and they will be until the start to mature.
They hit beans from the time they pop out of the ground until they start to yellow and brown down. They are eating the green leafs. Then you have about a 2 to 3 week window where the won't touch them. Once the beans are dried down, they will be back in the fields pulling the pods off the stalk. So you can figure beans can be hold deer any time from the middle of June until March or April with only a couple weeks where they aren't interested.
we have planted beans for a few years and they will hit them soon after they come up. in the fall if there is any along the woods those are just carnage, leaves stripped off, and the stalk still there.
