Following would be management if there were no pods or very few pods. Soybeans can be grazed. Cattle generally take some time becoming accustomed to soybeans, eating weeds along fences and between rows before starting on the bean plants. However, once they begin grazing the soybeans, they quickly adapt and readily eat most of the plant. Before turning animals into soybean fields to graze, fill them with some other feed like grass hay to discourage them from quickly eating a large meal of a new feedstuff. Cattle can bloat when grazing soybeans, but it occurs only rarely. Soybeans also cause loose feces in some animals. Providing some grass hay free choice for those animals can reduce these problems.

If there are a lot of pods with small beans inside them, there is some concern. Beans are about 20% fat and if too many are consumed, forage digestion is reduced. Also, we would suspect that if cows consume a lot of beans, they may have similar problems as if they consumed too much grain. So if there are a lot of small pods, you might want to consider cross-fencing to control the amount they can consume.