RR Soybeans and dear

BANDITFARMER

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Yesterday I had coffee with 8 guys at the dinner and we were talking about our crops and replanting we all had to do this year. One fellow said he had found a dead fawn out in a bean field ware it had been eating his beans and dropped right there. Then 4 more guys said that they had found dead fawns the same way and they were in fields planted with RR soybeans. Today I was checking some on my replanted RR soybeans and found a dead fawn in the lower part of the field, Same way dropped right ware it was eating. Whats going on here? I have never heard of this before or is there some kind of new dieses out there killing these fawns? I don't like them eating my beans but I don't like seeing them die from eating soybeans ether. Just tonight a buddy called and said he found a dead fawn in one of his fields and they were in a field of RR soybeans. I don't have a ground hog problem now that I plant RR soybeans because they wont eat them, Seams the rabbits like them too and I have found several dead ones as well. Kinda makes you wonder? Is this just in SW Ohio or is it a problem else ware? Bandit
 
I'm going with new problem. RR beans have been around for 20 years. We wouldn't have any of the ditch rats left if eating RR beans killed them.
AaronSEIA
 
Its funny how we went from one pest to another it seams. Ground hogs use to destroy the outside of the fields now they don't bother them at all. Now it the dear and rabbits are going after them, But it seams that something is killing them now. Just don't know what it is. A lot of guys around me still plant non GMO beans but all the dead fawns are in RR soybeans fields only so I don't know. Just something odd about this. The other odd thing is all of them were found in fields that were no-tilled with RR soybeans and all had to be replanted because of the wet spring so who knows? This year the no-till ground the crops look the worst and the worked ground looks good and I would say 95 percent of the replant was done on no-till ground this year so maybe its something in the ground? Bandit
 
No dead fawns in the non GMO bean fields, dead fawns in the RR bean fields. Gee, that is a tough one. Have to think on that one.
 
Is it possible it is from the seed treatment? GMO beans are no better or worse for your health than conventional.
 
I read somewhere the patent on RR was ending (2014?) and Monsanto is changing / adding other aspects the gene modification to keep it proprietary. I would have to agree it is not the RR part, we would know by now if that was it. But what else are they messing with? Could it be they have made the leaves of the plant toxic to young animals? If they have I am sure come this winter we are going to know.
 
Still have woodchucks bothering my RR soys, and deer are still eating the beans, have yet to find a dead fawn. Not saying something isn"t going on where you are at, but can"t say it is the beans just yet.
 
I would sooner think it was due to some kind of deer disease than anything else. If eating GMO beans killed deer there wouldn't be any. Quite the opposite. Mike
 

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