Do geese decoy in soybean fields?

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Please excuse the silly title, just want some help from any Ontario farmers on the board...

About 70% of the field that I have permission to hunt geese on has been planted with soybeans this season. About 20% has corn, only leaving me a scant 20 acres or so of fallow (knee-high grass) field to set up my decoys.

Does anyone know what month of the year soybeans are harvested in Ontario? The owners lease the property to a farmer and so far I haven't been able to contact him directly.

Depending on the harvest time I still might be able to salvage part of the goose season.
 
Down here with the right spread and calling you can bring them down in a parking lot. Had 38 behind the house yesterday with just 4 plywood decoys set in the field 2 weeks ago.There is nothing in this field to eat. They see other geese they will check out your field.Good Luck
 
Ive seen them plenty in recently harvested bean fields, I was going to try it last year, but Due to work, buying a house, and all kinds of other things I didnt get out hardly last year.... Hoping to do much better this year...
 
Ive never tried in a bean field but I would think that the field would be short on stubble to stuff your blind with. Is that a problem? or am I over-complicating things?
 
No you are not over complicating things at all, there will be almost no stubble on a bean field, even cut silage fields are iffy on covers.

I have had a (singular) goose shoot on a bean field put on by my buddy's dad that we excellent. However, that was few years ago and I have yet shot another goose on a bean field since. Best luck I've had is on corn, millet, mixed grain and wheat.
 
Turkeyslayer 1300 said:
Spank correct me if I'm wrong but you live in northern(ish) ontario. So your birds are more pressed to find corn early on.

Our Southern (ish) birds have a smorgasbord of corn and ignore the soy beans unless it is all they can get.
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Yes I live on the boder of Central and Northern Districts, north of here about 1.5 hrs in the claybelt farmers have been cropping soybean and peas with more frequency. The birds really hammer down on them hard especially if the there is a lot of waste. Corn here is grown as silage corn so it is rare to find them in a cut corn field here as there is usually no waste. Oats, barley and mixed grass/clover are our top producers. I have seen geese in soybean fields too in SW Ontario quite often. I would guess where they feed has much to do with what's left behind after harvest, energy requirements as per weather and temperatures and of course hunting pressure. In the south the amount of corn available at the cold time of the season definitley gets the nod, the birds love that corn producing heat when it starts to ferment in their crops overnight.
 
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