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Post by hoosier on Jul 9, 2010 21:34:07 GMT -5
What's harder on crops...
Deer?
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Coons?
These answers could be interesting? ;D
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Post by Decatur on Jul 10, 2010 1:42:26 GMT -5
I would say coon. Just like the vinyard in CA where wild turkeys were accused of eating all of their grapes. Trail cams proved it was coon.
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Post by dbd870 on Jul 10, 2010 6:02:46 GMT -5
And groundhogs can be hard on the beans, (although I don't see them as much as I used to), no doubt there is more than 1 kind of animal out there.
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Post by whitetail1 on Jul 10, 2010 6:52:30 GMT -5
My guess would be coons
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Post by mbogo on Jul 10, 2010 7:40:11 GMT -5
Raccoons, fox squirrels and then deer, in that order, do the most damage to corn. Deer are much more visible than the other two, of course, so they get more of the blame.
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Post by tenring on Jul 10, 2010 7:42:55 GMT -5
Our biologist told me one day that the biggest complaints came from Oliver Winery down around liberal Bloomington way, and it dang sure 'twernt coons. What say Kieth?
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Post by drs on Jul 10, 2010 7:46:04 GMT -5
What's really damaging to crop fields is the steady conversion of farmland to subdivisions, Wal-Marts, and HWY's. Deer & other wildlife feeding on croplands is really a "Given" It's always going to happen. Once croplands are gone then most wildlife species also vanish.
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Post by tenring on Jul 10, 2010 8:45:22 GMT -5
Quite a few years ago, my late mother showed me some brochures that she had picked up while doing the Lincoln thing down in Kentucky. Young Abe mentioned that when moving north with his family, they crossed the "barren land," a very wide and very long area of Kentucky that was set afire by the local Indian tribes so as to create habitat for the local white tail population. It would seem that they weren't so savage and ignorant as history books would portray them.
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Post by hoosier on Jul 10, 2010 16:17:27 GMT -5
How many raccoon depredation permits does the DNR issue per year? ;D
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Post by deerman1 on Jul 10, 2010 19:31:08 GMT -5
Coon destroy 10 times the corn crop than deer do always have always will .But alas deer always get the blame for it since thyey feed in daylight and coon are thevesin the nite!
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Post by huxbux on Jul 10, 2010 20:10:07 GMT -5
Hands down, it's coons.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jul 10, 2010 20:14:20 GMT -5
They like humming bird nectar too..  |
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Post by hoosier on Jul 10, 2010 23:16:51 GMT -5
Why don't we hear more anguish from the State and farmers regarding these masked bandits? Why is there no talk of bringing back bounties? Ya know fur prices are depressed and hound chow keeps going up. These little devils are running around everywhere with their bellies full of soybeans and sweet/field corn. Heck, they're even trying to squeeze out cute little hummingbirds!
Do I have a point with this thread? I dunno.....maybe it is to show what a bunch of "fluff" all this "outta control"deer population in regards to crop deprivation is.
Typical of many facets of living in today's world..... Many go out of their way to use circular logic regarding "spiced-up" problems, only for the end of saying they were right and to meet ulterior motives! Meanwhile, the catalyst for the real problems argued and bantered about, go unmentioned. Talk about heads buried in the sand!
Savvy?
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Post by dead-eye on Jul 18, 2010 1:28:37 GMT -5
while bowfishing the last few weeks i have seen on several ocasions where beavers are tearing up the corn fields. they take stalk and all to the water. eat everything but the stalk and let it drift away to get rid of the evidence. then they use their tail to smooth over their tracks and let the deer and coons take the fall for it. they can devour one plant in minuets.
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Post by whiteoak on Jul 18, 2010 2:55:54 GMT -5
Corn = Coons- Geese also hurt corn when it first comes out of the ground. The love eating fresh germinated corn plants
Soy beans= Deer, ground hogs
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Post by featherduster on Jul 18, 2010 5:52:36 GMT -5
mbogo comments.  |
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Post by tenring on Jul 18, 2010 5:57:35 GMT -5
Have one farmer friend who has complained out the beaver population down in a creek bottom cornfield, but then will not let anyone hunt geese on his place as they glean any corn kernels after harvest, and has for all intensive purposes, eliminated any "volunteer" corn in the next years soybean fields.
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Post by duff on Jul 18, 2010 6:55:42 GMT -5
Yep, those beavers are tough on corn that happen to be planted next to their homes. Spend any time on a river and you will see what is total evidence.
I think one of the reasons we hear more about deer permits is that the other animals don't have the same requirements to attain a special permit. If I see a coon eating in my garden I can shoot it right then and there. I have to notify the CO about it but doubt that happens too often.
Deer get blamed due to visibility.
By far the largest crop destroyer is Ma Nature. Heavy rains, strong winds, lack of rain, and the such are much more effective at wiping out the field then any furry, fuzzy critters. NO permits allowed for her!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2010 7:56:28 GMT -5
Every thing eats corn and a lot of things eat beans....I've seen serious crop damage from large winter turkey flocks on one of my farms. What they don't eat, the chit on.
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