This is my first year with RR Eagle soy beans in Central Wisconsin. I planted one 140K seed bag on four smaller food plots. The largest plot is an underground natural gas pipeline easement. It runs 200 yards by 60 feet wide for a total of .8 of an acre. All plots are near decent cover.
The Eagle beans got hit by the below freezing cold a few night ago. All the green leaves are now drooping to the ground. The extent of the deer browsing is now evident with nearly every stem on every plant chewed off at the leaf. About 20% of the Eagle beans that have produced pods, so there is still something in the plots to keep the deer visiting for now. I top seeded winter rye and that came in well. The Eagle beans did their job. They helped keep the deer off my ag beans and gave them a preferred browse for months. They lasted until the end of October with green leaves. It will be interesting to see how much longer the deer take to clean up the beans that produced pods.
I consider the Eagle bean planting a HUGE SUCCESS! I plan on planting more Eagles next season. One thing I have learned is to plant them a lot earlier, as in June. I will also be planting them a lot heavier on a few of the smaller plots and bring a few other small plots into production next season. These plots have been sprayed with gly earlier this season and will be disked starting in the spring.
Not a cheap bean to plant, but well worth it in my book.
The Eagle beans got hit by the below freezing cold a few night ago. All the green leaves are now drooping to the ground. The extent of the deer browsing is now evident with nearly every stem on every plant chewed off at the leaf. About 20% of the Eagle beans that have produced pods, so there is still something in the plots to keep the deer visiting for now. I top seeded winter rye and that came in well. The Eagle beans did their job. They helped keep the deer off my ag beans and gave them a preferred browse for months. They lasted until the end of October with green leaves. It will be interesting to see how much longer the deer take to clean up the beans that produced pods.
I consider the Eagle bean planting a HUGE SUCCESS! I plan on planting more Eagles next season. One thing I have learned is to plant them a lot earlier, as in June. I will also be planting them a lot heavier on a few of the smaller plots and bring a few other small plots into production next season. These plots have been sprayed with gly earlier this season and will be disked starting in the spring.
Not a cheap bean to plant, but well worth it in my book.