Variety performance review
Eagle Seed Big Fellow RR Forage Soybean in the Upper Southeast.
- Excellent
- Eagle Seed Co.
- Indeterminate, late-maturing forage type
- GMO
Trait package: Roundup Ready 1
Regional strengths
Forage-type soybeans (indeterminate, late-maturing) are widely regarded as the highest-protein summer-and-fall food plot for whitetail in the Upper Southeast. Eagle's Big Fellow line is a long-running food-plot-specific genetic platform that holds up through season-long browsing better than commercial soybean varieties.
Regional weaknesses
Forage soybean food plots are extremely vulnerable to over-browsing on small plots (<3 acres) or high deer-density properties — fencing or sacrificial perimeter is often necessary for stand survival. Cost per acre is meaningfully higher than commercial soybean seed.
Agronomic ratings
Drought tolerance
good
Standability
good
Emergence
good
Winter hardiness
na
Disease resistance
- Frogeye leaf spot:unknown
- Sudden death syndrome:unknown
Food-plot ratings
Palatability
excellent
Persistence
good
Establishment
moderate
Attraction timing: Mid-summer through frost — heavy summer browse, then standing pods through winter
Best for
- large (3+ acre) food plots
- high-protein summer plots
- properties with managed deer density
Not recommended for
- small food plots vulnerable to over-browsing
- low deer-management situations
Best soil types
silt loam, loam
Seeding rate
60–90 lb/acre depending on variety
Farmer notes
Community reports from Kentucky / Tennessee food plotters consistently rank forage-soy plots above commercial-soy plots for season-long deer use, especially for plots managed for standing pod attraction into late season.