AR-News: (US MI) FARM SCENE: Foraging deer could wind up in New York farmers' gunsights

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By JOEL STASHENKO
The Associated Press
4/5/04 2:36 AM 
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Deer have eaten themselves out of their welcome on many 
New York farms, prompting a legislative proposal to allow hunting year-round 
on fields to reduce damage to crops by hungry bucks, does and fawns. 
With a new Cornell University study estimating deer do some $58.8 million in 
damage annually to New York crops, Assemblyman Clifford Crouch said current 
state programs to shoot deer on farmland are inadequate. 
Crouch saw the damage firsthand when he ran a dairy farm in the 1970s and 
1980s. Deer all but ruined an alfalfa field by eating it every night, reducing 
the second growth of the season from the normal 30 inches tall to less than a 
foot. 



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