Hairy vetch isn’t bad for farmers, it depends on what your goals are and how you manage it. I like to use it as a companion with clover and rye or oats to make a mulch for no till vegetables and corn but to wheat and strawberry farmers it’s a weed that needs to be eliminated as to your larger point i don’t manage my food plots as intensely as cash crops but do give them a fighting chance, a few weeds don’t upset me unless it’s pigweed. I’m beginning to believe cover is more important for me to others food may be more important.
Pigweed can be a pain in the butt but everywhere I've ever had it, the deer loved it, especially if its in a fertilized plot. First time I realized deer ate it was in a chufa plot. Every time I checked on the chufas, there were deer in the plot. I eventually realized they were browsing on the pigweed
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