Im kinda where you are, but did get a little more excited this weekend. Made a few last minute adjustments. And these green beans can be just what you need for deer sightings early season
Late planting thoughts...
- Thread starter giles
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Some farmers started pulling some corn this past week. Mostly just pulling the driest stuff right now. Figure most of them will hit it hard in the next couple weeks. It's been awful dry and you can bet that when it starts raining it will probably stay wet for the next two months.
What does the delayed planting and harvest have to do with your desire to go hunting this weekend? From what I'm seeing, it should only help the cause. The late planted bean fields are still pretty green, meaning still attractive to deer. I'd much rather have standing green soybeans for opening weekend than harvested or yellow/brown soybeans the deer have moved away from. Just curious to your thoughts on this...
Nothing more than it just doesn’t feel like it’s time to go yet. I feel like hunting season starts after harvest for me because I’ve worked harvest for so many years? Maybe, not sure. I just don’t feel like it’s time yet. Calendar says different
Yea I feel ya there. We just need a good cold snap to get you in the mood! That, and knowing a big deer is around helps the motivation levels too.Nothing more than it just doesn’t feel like it’s time to go yet. I feel like hunting season starts after harvest for me because I’ve worked harvest for so many years? Maybe, not sure. I just don’t feel like it’s time yet. Calendar says different
Once the nut pics start flowing in, I’m sure I’ll change my mind.Yea I feel ya there. We just need a good cold snap to get you in the mood! That, and knowing a big deer is around helps the motivation levels too.
We had very little planted until July. Mid to late July in many fields. What I have found interesting is the beans are starting to yellow around here. Doesn't seem to matter when they were planted. Sort of like the rut. . . happens every year. . . fairly close to the same time. Might vary a week or so one way or another.
There are ladder stands, where you catch a breeze. But yea, 90 degrees is a downer
Yeah, I understand that people hunt all over the world in 90+...but if I ain’t gotta. We did finish the last bag last week. Idk...kinda nice out, maybe I’ll gwt the crossbow out and try it out. Prolly not.
cspot
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Did a little shining last night in PA and the beans we shined are getting really yellow. No deer in them, but we did see some in the hayfields. Not sure when those beans got put in though as I don't drive past those fields on a daily basis.
Couple hundred acres of beans came off 1/2 mile up the road.....it's beginnnnning
I didn't hunt NC when it was 90. I'm damn sure not going to hunt Ohio when its 90. This is just ridiculous.
Everything is a month late here. Beans r dying if we would have got enough rain they'd still be going at least what my farming buddy said. I've seen a silage corn field taken but I'll be rut hunting on the ground around the corn fields for sure this season. Did a blind check this past weekend it was like a sauna. I'll be swimming instead of hunting next weekend.
Iowa_Buckeye
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motorbreaker
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Very little beans were planted by us. Fields are just weeds. Not much corn either. And we haven't got much for rain since we planted brassicas a few weeks ago. And we have very few white oaks. Going to be a different season for us. Proly put out some corn.
motorbreaker
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Yes it is. we planted some beans in July but the deer and turkey ate them all before they got 3 inches tall.