I apologize as I realize in the hundreds of food plot related questions but after looking through a few hundred I couldn’t find one that answered this question.

We have 7 acres of food plots on 550 acres in central Oklahoma (1/2 acre beans, 1.5 acres sorghum/summer peas/soy beans, 1 acre clover, ). The property is roughly 60/40 woods vs open fields and the native browse is pretty good in the wooded areas (we have done some TSI. Lets say the combined TSI areas make up 75 Acres done a few years back). It is legal in Oklahoma to provide supplemental feed and we feed protein in 3 feeders on the property from late summer through winter, part depending on how much rain we got and how well the food plots and native browse is).

I have 1/2 acre of Eagle Seed Gamekeeper beans planted and protected by a Hot Zone fence. This is the first year the beans have flourished on the property and have a chance at making beans, and they are about waste high. There are no other beans on the property that aren’t browsed down too near nothing. The fence is still up now, the beans are flowering and i’m suspecting there will be beans on them fairly soon. My goal is to FINALLY have some beans that remain for late fall/winter, when is it safe to remove the fence and let the deer start taking advantage of the great leafy beans that are there?

Thanks from one Grant to another.