[AT] Real farmers problems - a discussion of land use relatedto farming - was fuel problems get expensive -perspectives and reactions

[Cecil Bearden]

Here in OK the insurance commissioner worked with the legislature and 
the wildlife department to increase hunting season on does to reduce the 
population.  He cited the dollar amount lost and lives lost every year 
to deer collisions with vehicles.  Poor guy had a small charity to 
provide shoes to disadvantaged kids and used his campaign funds to 
finance it and ended up in prison for it...

I have had three breakdowns this year and have spent about 2 days 
repairing my sickle from hitting dirt mounds where the coyotes have been 
hunting rats or whatever.  They will pile dirt up where they have dug a 
hole and either I hit the hole with the wheel, or run into the mound 
with the sickle.  The grass is very heavy and you cannot tell where they 
are.   It really tears up a pasture for cutting prairie hay.  There is 
really no good way to smooth it out..

Cecil in OKla


charlie hill wrote:
> John,  I've known some farmers around here to plant a strip of pasture along 
> the wood line for the deer to graze on, hoping it would keep them out of the 
> field.
>
> Charlie
>
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> From: "john hall" <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 10:20 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AT] Real farmers problems - a discussion of land use relatedto 
> farming - was fuel problems get expensive -perspectives	and reactions
>
>   
>> We have a different problem here due to increased housing developments. We
>> have an overpopulated deer population that is making it almost impossible 
>> to
>> grow anything, be it farm or merely garden. I had 24 deer on about 3 acres
>> of newly emerged soybeans last night. Plus the other 8 I saw in other
>> fields. You just can't shoot that many of the darn things. They have even
>> gotten so bad we can only grow bearded wheat.
>>
>> John Hall
>>
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