They eat meat and grasses or other rough vegetation only when their favorite foods are not available. In the farming country of northeast North Carolina, black bears have adapted their tastes to corn, soybeans and peanuts.

Do black bears eat soy beans?

Soybeans are a main food source. Corn,peanuts and wheat also heavily utilized. The only farm product that they don't eat is cotton.

What can I feed deer that bears don't eat?

Registered. Try whole kernal corn but spread it around, not in a pile. the bears may eat some of it but they will wander off and leave enough for the deer.