Sunhemp is 3' tall!! It is eat down in the unfenced part of the field. The Clay peas that are outside the unfenced part haven't been touched.

I've got a spot that's about to get Jap Millet, then cereal rye and clover, then next spring I'm looking at sun hemp. Glad to see it's growing well. How did younplant it?

I just broadcast it with a hand spreader. Here is a couple of more pics.

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what kind of usage so far?

I took my fence down 5-21 and haven't noticed much usage. I'm thinking that they have to get comfortable since the fence is down. The sunhemp that was outside of the fence had a lot of usage.

You can see in this pic which side was protected by the electric fence!! I tried planting sunhemp a few years ago but I didnt't put up a fence. It didn't get 6" tall and the deer pulled it up by the roots. I'm a lot happier this year!!!

How did you power your fence?

Your sunhemp looks great.I planted a soybean, sunhemp,iron clay mixture last year. The deer eat the soybeans first.Then the sunhemp got some heavy browsing until it reached a foot tall,then the deer seemed to just nibble on it. The sunhemp is a great screener to keep deer feeling compterfull.But the
It got 8 to 10 feet tall at the end.But as far as The Iron clay peas I have planted them by themselves for years.It seems like In most areas the deer seem to lay off of them until they make peas.The first couple years I planted them It was like you check your cameras one day and the clay peas are knee high.then go back 2 to 3 days later and it looks like someone bushoged them down.deer love them but most of the time when the peas start growing,it's weird because then they eat plant peas and all.

It was a A Zareba 10 mile solar low impedance fence charger. It takes a 6 volt battery and slides over the top of a "T" post. I swapped the battery once in the 6 weeks that it was used. It was still working but it had been raining a few days in a row so I assumed the battery may be a little weak. I only run two strands of wire around the field.

My plan is to bush hog the sunhemp when it reaches 7 foot tall. I'm going to try and keep it between 1' -6' until the fall.

You had better cut it before 7' tall or you will kill quite a few stalks. I did that and was a mistake. 3-5' is better to cut for survival of resprouts.

Truth to that statement. I read that sunn hemp tolerated mowing. That statements is not completely accurate. Tall sunn hemp does not tolerate mowing, short sunn hemp seems to tolerate it okay.

Thanks for the advice. I'll plan to mow it within the next 2- weeks if the deer don't mow it for me. i noticed today that the deer have started nibbling the tops of the sunhemp and peas. I won't be able to check it again until next Sunday. I'm curious to see what it will look like then. I took another pic today and it has grown a lot since the last pic.

Looking good. I planted the same thing in a couple of Sandy fields at the house a couple of weeks ago. I also tried top gun soybean's with sunn hemp in a couple fields. Top gun is just like quail haven beans so I decided to give them a try.

Yall had any luck with stonewall soybeans?

Not really the want tolerate much browsing but I have made beans with them. If I plant non GMO forage beans I'll mix one bag of stonewall's per 10 acres or so just to save money and pick up bean yield. They will put on a lot more beans then forage beans but they make my field look goofy because they mature and turn yellow way be for forage soybean's do. I do use them sometimes in a mix but I'm do it just to sacrifice them because most of the time deer eat them before the will touch anything else. All that being said I wouldn't plant them in a field less than 10 acres and behind some kind of fence to get them started real good probably 24-30 inches. It would make a lot more sense to plant a forage soybean like Tyrone, Derry, laredo or a RR forage like large lad or big fellow. My favorite and best performer is large lad by a long shot but they be high dollar brother. Everybody's​ situation is different so it's hard to say what you need to plant without knowing what your budget, land and deer density looks like. For most folks and clubs beans are not the best way to go for several reasons but they are perfect for my situation.