All of our fields are planted in beans, roughly 200 acres total. Every property within large radius is in beans. I say that just so you know that I don’t have the only bean field in an area.

We’ve had beans before and I’ve never had issues across the property with decimation of crops from deer.

For 5 years or so Our farmers have been worried about deer, I’ve never saw an issue, so far.

Here are two pictures from one part of the property.

Pretty normal looking, what I would expect. We’ll call this field A



Here is field B. It doesn’t even look like it was planted. My thought was maybe a planter messed up, but I asked our farmer and I’m told it was from deer damage. I have no reason to think he wouldn’t tell my his actual thought on it. Have any of you had experience with this much damage? Especially from fields so close to each other?



It’s weird to me because these fields are only about a thousand yards from each other.

That’s crazy if it’s really from deer

It’s probably the largest field in this particular tract, I just can’t believe deer hit it that hard and didn’t move down the tree line to another field. But maybe I’m wrong.

No way that's from deer. I would have to see that with my own eyes to believe it. I've hunted places where there is some crazy deer densities and never seen anything like that. I guess they drilled it in?

Not deer

Only a John Deere could cause that much damage.

Yes, drilled

Ain’t no way that’s deer damage

Neighbor here said deer ate 30 acres of his a few years ago. I didnt see it. He had 90 acres

I wouldn't think that is deer damage.

Somebody's cows get out?

Definitely going with human or mechanical error.

no way deer did that much damage..did it get sprayed with something and was the beans a not a round up ready type

Nope. No way. Especially if pic 1 is only 1000 yards away from the field that was totally decimated.

My guess, wrong herbicide or the wrong seed was planted.That field was sprayed to be that clean. Farmer wanting lease money back? Happened to me several years ago. I got what I thought was three bags of Croplan 9009 RR corn, one bag was conventional. Filled the four planters, everything looked great a few weeks later and sprayed gly. It was very obvious one of the bags wasn’t RR a couple days later.

not deer

Doesn't appear that any beans ever came up at all.

He could hav been lying to u to mess with ya 😀