Y'all need to talk to some real farmers because y'all don't know what y'all are talking about. Deer have been an issue for decades... this is nothing new. Do you lose a little money.. YES. But if you have been farming for real and not typing on a keyboard you figured out how to deal with it 40 years ago. This has been a problem since the 70's. If you didn't figure out how to deal with it you are long gone and somewhere doing something else for a living.
Do you loose a little money planting on 15" and upping the population to 160,000. We use to do double end rows to help offset a bit of the damage. Does that cost money.. Yea a little bit.
I can remember a couple years where we had some of our best beans ever when the deer nipped them by the time they had their first trifoliate.
Does someone somewhere have an issue? Probably. Most farmers are smart enough that if it is long-term to simply plant something else. Right? This issue pales in comparison to an issue we now have with wild hogs. Nowhere even in the same ballpark. IF y'all want to get concerned about some farming you are barking up the wrong tree the hogs actually ARE the issue in 2024. Hogs WILL put you out of business.
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We’re not serious farmers, just piddling but deer still have cost us money. That land had been farmed for as long as anyone alive around there can recall. Deer been eating profits up on guys that’s been farming for eons. Deer recently have become more of problem because of the timber practices around helps support more and more deer. If the surrounding land had setup been hardwoods the deer population would be much lower. It’s not putting anyone out of business, not sure anyone has said that here.
I know of farmland along the river where beans are eaten down even though it’s large fields but still viable enough to be farmed. Plant corn and the hogs will eat any profits up. I'm surprised anyone farms it. I know some guys that are getting their traps, dogs and guns ready because war has been declared on the hogs.
