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Excerpted from:
August, 2008
"Quick Hitter Food Plots"
By Alan Clemons
Research conducted at Ocmulgee Banks

Excerpted from:
Northern Virginia Daily
"Thinking Ahead and Preparing
our Food Plots"
By Gerald Almy; Hunting and Fishing Editor
of Sports Afield Magazine

Excerpted from:
Arkansas Sportsman
"Warm-Weather Deer Management"
by Tim Lilley
June, 2010

"Eagle Seed forage
soybeans are absolutely
the best crop I’ve ever
planted for deer. They
produce literally tons of
high quality forage
throughout the growing
season and can produce
huge crops of bean pods
for deer to consume
during the winter. I use
them as a year round
food source for deer and
other wildlife. The cost
per pound of food
produced is less than
any other crop I’ve tried."

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Dr. Woods is a world-renown
wildlife biologist and host of
growingdeer.tv. His website is a
great resource for all things
hunting. He has generously
allowed us to show a few of his
fantastic videos on our site (click
on the growingdeer.tv tabs shown
below).

Mali Vujanic uses Eagle Seed
Wildlife Manager's Mix RRTM with
corn. Mali is a professional
wildlife food-plot consultant
and owner of Outdoor
Essentials, LLC.

Video Courtesy of the Quality
Deer Management Association.
Product: Eagle Seed's Wildlife
Manager's Mix RRTM
Show Title: Quality Whitetails
Television, "Managing for
Smaller Properties"
Featured on the Outdoor
Channel; SPRING 2009

The Hunting Grounds:
"Deer Scouting in the
Preseason." 2010 video

Everyone knows soybeans mean big bucks, but most
hunters don't know that soybeans started out as a forage
crop. Over the years, genetic manipulation has turned this
high-protein powerhouse into a low-growing, bean-heavy,
combine friendly plant. Eagle Seed Company in Weiner,
Arkansas, is a family-owned business that has developed
three unique cultivars of Roundup Ready soybeans
specifically for whitetails.

Instead of short and squatty, this company's soybean
varieties climb high, spread wide and really put out the
leaves. The protein levels -- some leaves tallied 42% in
recent tests -- and pure tonnage produced have been
outstanding in university trials. Southern Illinois University
was able to get 9.6 tons of dry matter per acre, and several
farmers reported 14 tons of silage per acre: amazing
numbers to say the least.

The varieties can be planted in conjuction with other crops,
such as corn, or as a stand alone crop. The leaves will die
after a few frosts, but the beans -- the plants still produce
plenty -- will continue feeding deer into the winter. Two
recognized food plot experts, Dr. Grant Woods and Mark
Buxton, say these soybeans are the most innovative new
food plot plants for whitetails in years.

North American Whitetails
"Seeds and Supplements"
By J. Guthrie

Eagle Seed Forage Soybeans provide an amazing amount of
tonnage which provides food for deer.

"Deer want the leaves more than the beans, and you can
even mix them in with something like milo or corn to create
"runner" beans that grow up the stalks and produce a huge
volume of food, and with the Roundup Ready corn and beans
you get a two-season annual crop."

Kinkel has been consulting with a project in central Georgia
known as the Ocmulgee Banks, where he's been testing and
analyzing the Big Fellow RR beans.

"I'm blown away -- some of the plots are producing 14,000
pounds of food per acre, he says. "I've seen their crops grow
to six feet tall in poor soils. The growth is so great in these
fields that deer are not only feeding in them, but
bedding in them as well."

Photo of Big Fellow Leaf (left) courtesy of:
Arkansas State University Research Farm, 2010 August.

Now I think I've finally come upon the best food plot for our
deer. Eagle Forage soybeans grow twice as tall as regular
soybeans, with much larger leaves. The beans are
"Roundup Ready" so weed competition can be controlled.

Most importantly, they've developed soybeans aimed
primarily at providing forage with the leaves, not seeds to be
harvested in the fall.

Big Fellow RR
The key advantage is that these beans have a longer
growing cycle before they bloom. Even after most soybeans
bloom, these can continue growing and producing
high-protein forage for deer (or cattle) for up to six weeks
longer.

In fact, these soybeans grow so tall that deer will not only eat
the leaves, but they'll bed down in fields of them. Another
great advantage is that they are drought tolerant.

Large Lad RR is another soybean offered by Eagle Seed.
This is the official soybean of the Mississippi Fisheries and
Wildlife Department. It has excellent deer-browsing tolerance
and can grow up to 84 inches high. It is also very bushy and
is resistant to most foliar diseases, phytophthora root rot,
stem canker and several races of nematodes.

Its bushy nature makes this an excellent choice for other
small game species and quail. One study done in Georgia on
the Ocmulgee Banks Farm showed that Eagle Seed
soybeans yielded seven tons of forage per acre...this spring
after I put in some Big Fellow RR and Large Lad RR
soybeans I'll have something substantially green, and high in
protein for the local deer to dine on when the clover dries up
in early summer."

Excerpted from:
Quality Whitetails; Quality Deer
Management Association Magazine
"Secrets to Successful Warm-Season
Food Plots"
by Brian Sheppard

For maximum production, nutrition and
palatability, nothing beats the large-seeded
legumes. I have experimented with many
forages. Cowpea and Roundup Ready Large Lad
forage soybeans are among my favorites
because I can grow them in a variety of soil types.

Photo of two Whitetail Thicket plants during
2010 drought in Arkansas. Notice the
extensive branching and foliage produced.

Pictured above: Clemson researcher showing the
Eagle Seed Forage plots at Clemson University
Research Station in South Carolina under dryland
conditons, front plots were mowed.

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"Protein might be the single most important
word in this whole story. Bucks are growing
antlers now, and does are giving birth and
nursing fawns. Both activities are enhanced by
high-protein diets, and also by vitamins and
minerals."

If you are just starting out with food plots, all of
the experts who contributed to this story
recommended the same thing -- Roundup Ready
forage-variety soybeans. "The emphasis with
forage soybeans is on the foliage, not on the
bean pods," Sykes said. He and others
recommended the soybeans offered by Eagle
Seed of Arkansas.

Excerpted from:
North American Whitetail
"North and South Planting the Seed"
by Matt Haun
Spring 2011; Vol. 30 No. 1

Legumes (broadleaves) are the backbone of any
spring/summer planting program. My favorites are
Lablab, EAGLE SEED SOYBEANS, and
Aeschynomene as stand alone plantings...
EAGLE SEED SOYBEANS are forage beans that are
designed to produce mass quantities of leaves and
do so very quickly once they are established. A
client of mine had his EAGLE leaves tested last
summer by a lab and they tested out at 35% crude
protein. There is no other legume that can make
those claims. They are also Round-Up Ready making
them the go-to seed in areas where summer weeds
are a significant problem.