Beans and rebounding from EHD

[Mattyq2402]

I’m in SE Ohio, got pummeled by EHd. Moving forward I do have a couple survivor bucks that are really solid, one could be real special if he gets thru the gun. There’s a couple good 2.5 and 3.5 as well. I have one or two mature doe and 5-7 fawns based on my pics covering the 130 acres. I’d estimate in the 75% being killed off. Good news is the bucks mentioned above made it.

With the deer density being grim, I was thinking about running beans in the 3-4 acre range accompanied by sorghum/milo in my main destination food. I’ve never run beans before. I’ll have clover chic to accompany.

With a low density do you think a bean planting would invite these bucks to summer and take advantage of my new tsi I’m providing? With 3-4 acres would it be a wash without fencing?

Is anyone seeing good results with sorghum and Milo? Corn is just out of budget.

 

[Catscratch]

Milo/sorghum is good for me but for only a short time. Maybe a couple of weeks from the time they decide to eat it to the time it's either gone or they're done with it.

From a food standpoint I'd go very heavy with beans and maybe mix some milo in with it. Either in 4ft rows or just a light broadcasting.

 

[Mattyq2402]

Milo/sorghum is good for me but for only a short time. Maybe a couple of weeks from the time they decide to eat it to the time it's either gone or they're done with it.

From a food standpoint I'd go very heavy with beans and maybe mix some milo in with it. Either in 4ft rows or just a light broadcasting.

That’s kind of what I was thinking. The large field has a county road in view, I’ll have it screened but would also like to have the structure within to block road view.

 

[swat1018]

If your deer numbers are low enough beans may survive. The good thing about summer annuals is that if they fail, you can always do brassicas, rye, etc later.

I have a 4 acre plot surrounded by deep timber, I've never got beans to survive in there.