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If done right you should only have to spray your beans once. I would not recommend spraying beans twice especially later in the summer because it will stunt them out and if you didn't have sufficient rainfall might destroy your crop. We don't usually plant them in our food plots because we usually have close to 2100 acres usually planted in them. We drill them in April and usually once they are 6 to 8 inches tall we spray them. A alternative plot we use is planting wheat with our clover early in the spring the deer will get on the wheat as soon as it gets up tall enough to get a hold of. Once the wheat gets up there and matures to a head the turkeys will usually move in a eat the heads. After the heads are utilized we go in and brush hog the wheat down leaving a lush stand of clover for the rest of the summer into the fall. If you've used certified red clover seed it will be established for several years. Once the clover comes to seed go back in and run a brush hog or mower of somekind over it to knock the seed out of the head for reseeding purposes. We also planted 18 acres of milo and left about 1/3 of it stand for winter grazing and we have more deer and turkey hanging out on us this winter than we have ever had. Pre-spraying is also effective when using roundup. Especially if you have some small brush in your food plot areas. If you brush hog this area in the spring just before planting when all the vegitation and brush is putting all of its strenght into growing it is very effective to then come in with the roundup and spray it giving it no chance. After spraying with roundup the soil is safe for planting after 10 days of letting sit. After the vegetation is dead and the roots are shrunk up it is easier to tear the soil up for preperation.