Are sunflowers a crop deer like? Two fields have them on relatives property I hunt. As of a couple weeks ago they were not harvested. I believe this is the first year they have planted them, normally put them on neighboring fields. As noted two fields are sunflowers, one alfalfa and a bean field. Anyone have experience hunting over them or use them as a reliable food source. Have not done any scouting around them.
Deer love the black oil sunflowers. People feeding birds with those sunflower seeds are always fighting with deer knocking down feeders to get the seed. I can’t image a field full of sunflowers not being prime time for deer.
The deer love sunflowers in the Dakotas.
When they are standing they will use them to bed in. Once they are harvested I have seen a lot of deer still utilizing them for bedding but they are easier to see feeding out there on the waste grain left behind.
They grow a lot of sunflowers out there and have for years.
Not sure how the deer will utilize them in your hunting area if they are a new food source or bedding area.
Deer love sunflowers.
Deer love sunflowers.
so do the bears!!!!!!!!! 
I figured they would like them, just no experience hunting them. I do have a few good spots to hunt them with the right wind, will have to give it a shot.
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What wind do you hunt that blue pin with? That looks like a sweet pinch point by looking at just the aerial.
Yea it is a good spot, have shot quite few deer out of that stand over the years. I will hunt it with any wind besides N or NW, which obviously is prevailing wind so can make it tough this time of year. Not in picture but there is a swamp to the southeast that most of the deer come out of.
I can’t help ya on the sunflowers, but I’d sure appreciate it if our friends in the farming community would get to chopping. Hardly any picked fields down my way.
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