I quit planting Soybeans and Iron & Clay Cowpeas after the deer would never let 5 acres of them grow. Soybeans, if nipped off below the first 2 leaves, will not regrow. Cowpeas will keep trying to grow, but I still ended up with a weed plot.
You may have good success if you can fence them off or a portion of them. I didn't.
You may want to consider a mix of things, that include cowpeas, soybeans, milo, buckwheat, corn and even sunn hemp.
We gave up on any type of bean product, plots get to looking great and then "BAM", mowed down to nothing in a day or two after the first frost. Sometimes before, they let it get a certain height and the next day looks like you ran a lawn mower over it.
Do you plant alyce clover in the spring?? I was thinking that was the one they have you plant in your garden in the late fall/early winter to give the soil more organic stuff when you till it under
I’m going to try planting soybeans with corn this year. I will be able to plant about 6 ac. I saw this article and thought it makes sense for my situation.