Yes Tracy, commercial farmer here, although I rarely do anything in the fields any more. Semi-retired and a younger group does the field work.
We plant corn early in April, try to get it mature before the annual drought, and harvest it in September. Plant group 4 and 5 maturity soybeans later in June, let them suffer through the drought, then set pods and mature in the fall with harvest October/November. We are in the middle of bean harvest right now.
Plant some winter wheat in the fall and double crop beans the next summer also.
That is the general gist of it, with lots of variations depending on the weather for the year and the prices of different commodities. Every year is a little different.
I know nothing of planting plots for deer except that they love our soybeans and a small field surrounded by trees in a remote area really gets hammered by the deer. There have been some small fields we just had to give up growing beans because of the deer population. Wife counted 30 in two fields below the house about a month ago. They will eat the corn also off the cob but do more damage to it by just trampling it down and generally stay around the perimeter of the field. So they like corn too.
I don't hunt but have several employees that do. We definitely have grain fed deer, so they usually taste pretty good.
