What is this?

Setting a camera tonight, I counted 11 deer eating in a field of this...what is it? Also, this is how the leaves grew, I wasn't pinching them together

 

Guesses?

 

look like soybeans to me...just a bit shriveled. Maybe a genetic defect.

 

Looks like soy beans to me . They were probably recently sprayed , they'll snap out of it pretty quick .

 

This is what I'd say. Depending on what type and what they get sprayed with sometimes spraying them will make them look like that. Like JLS said though they should snap out of it.

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I can't imagine it's soybeans from the looks of what appears to be rocks on the ground. That said, I have no idea what else it may be.

 

Unless it's a different variety, I don't think it's soy beans. Aren't soy beans planted in rows anyway?

 

Spread the leaves out and take a close up picture for us.

 

it looks to either be soybeans or a type of pea!
but its difficult to tell!

 

ok after looking at the pics a second time, I am saying soy beans, they look like they were planted in heavy clay that was wet, which is causing the stress, that or drought.
questions
1. has it been dry or lots of rain?
2. is that clay soil?

 

I've never seen herbicide injury or moisture stress like that on soybeans personally.

 

It almost reminds me of sickle pod the ways the leaves are but I'm not sure


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I think you nailed it. Something I'm not familiar with at all. I was thinking maybe peanuts, lol.

Sicklepod:

 

I haven't ever heard of deer eating it though... It grows like crazy all over one farm I've worked at


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Yeah all the info I read leads me to think deer basically will not eat sicklepod.
Back to the peanut theory...
Deer effin LOVE peanuts and they do look very similar to that plant...then again...I wonder if the deer are actually eating THAT plant or if they are browsing on something else in the area that's basically already eaten down in the pics?

 

That's what I was leaning towards. Similar to how I see deer in fescue hayfields all the time but they don't really touch the fescue.


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Thank you all for the help, I am still unsure of the plant but will find out when the landowner returns home from Germany in a month

 

Did you try smoking it yet???? I find that it helps in the process of identification....I thought about it...thats prolly a bad idea....