Deer eat cotton

The seeds maybe? Heck IDK

Yelp. Seeds are high in protein. And they will eat new growth

If you can find a lawyer to take the case and a judge to hear it you can sue for anything. I have never filed suit in my life but probably would in this case. I do think you could sue for negative impact of the value of the land if you can prove that the value actually went down. I know you can't tell a guy where to put a fence but I also know that many cases have been won when a neighbor does something to make his neighbor loose money.

HWY72: "It doesn't make financial sense for most farmers with any sizable acreage to HF. Deer cause little damage compared to hogs, and you can keep the hogs out with a good low fence at half the cost........"


BOBO: "You are highly mis-informed. I've experienced up to 30% loss, not including transportation of weed seeds."

30% loss on how much acreage? If you have a large garden and some deer around that can happen. And you're saying if you don't have deer in the field you don't have to spray for weeds??

Deer eat the carp out of cotten. Young bolls, I have seen mule deer with mouths full of cotton chewing the seed out of it.
I hunted a place in Hartly county years ago and the farmer had a 10 foot fence around his cotton fields.

There are also quite a few acres in Runnels county that are high fenced for the same reason, only to keep the deer out of their cotton and grain fields.

Lol, I have size able acreage. Even then I have heavy loses. I get crop deprivation permits every year and beg for more. Herbicide useage is always higher where I have higher wildlife densities along with fertilizer. I have to much wind and snow for HF or I would. I have he'll just keeping 5' netwire up.

I've got friends that have thousands of acres HF in McCullough county. 100% pure farm land, no trees. Their increase yield paid for the fence.

Economics of a HF aren't has much as you think since its a depricatable improvement. High up front but offsets quickly. On top of that farm land isn't a complex install. You don't have water gaps, etc.


Still BS?

It does to Farmers and Ranchers in the Hill Country also. They have fenced off fields for a long time for livestock grazing only due to high deer populations. They had to just to get a crop for animals to graze. I managed a ranch that had about 70 acres of HF fields just livestock only. They used them to plant corn for silage in the spring and small grains in the fall/winter for grazing.

Cotton is a legume plant and it can be planted as a food plot for deer.

Last time I checked, the difference in a HF vs LF install is probably close to $2 -$3 a foot. For sizable acreage that's a lot of investment just to keep deer out, even over 7 years. I still don't see how the deer can make that much difference. I guess I'll have to take your word for it, because I don't understand how you fellas do the math on the equipment either. Takes a good tax planner........

LF is $2/ft and HF is $4/ft more or less on both. I have seen farmers put up a LF net wire fence just to keep hogs out of crops. Ask a Kansas or Iowa farmer how much crop damage a WT or MD can cause. Almost every farmer I talked to up in western Kansas hates deer. Most want them all killed off and gone.

No its not a legume lol

You are correct. I meant legume type plant(as far as protein quality).

A 5 strand barbed wire is about $2. Field fence is higher depending on vertical and horizontal strands, and quality, basically $3-$4. A 96 to 120" fence will be substantially higher than a 48", not including any dirt or dozer work...

I had a 48" hitensil netwire fence built for $2/ft total(labor and materials). I bought material and paid for the install. For grins I price a HF with me buying materials and it was $4/ft total(labor and materials). Goliad County.

Texas WT eats up to 6lbs of food a day.

Since the browse figure 3lbs of AG

1 deer= 1095lbs a year
60 deer=64,700lbs
100 deer= 109,500lbs

Wether grain or steam that's a lot.
Most farmers rotate summer/winter crops

So say quarter a year of corn alone for 100 deer is roughly 25,000lbs
@ $4 per bushel that's expensive.

On winter wheat it gets just as bad since deer will eat stalk to the ground. So on top of lower yields you have higher fertilizer costs just to try to produce a crop

Then you have to break it down further since deer can't live by corn alone.

He did. He also did not include the damaged crop knocked to the ground and not able to be harvested

Send me the guys number!
I paid +- $1 per foot labor on a 6 strand BW. The materials were +-$1 2 years ago. Statite 1348 + 1 strand of BW on top would have been closer to $3.

They love the blooms.

Split the half in half, might keep it close for pivot acreage.

I don't know how many lbs to a bushel, or how many bushels to an acre, but based on your 30% loss you have 100 deer grazing in a field that's producing 365,000 lbs..............seems like a very high deer population.

I paid .75/ft labor plus $40/corner post( 36 corner post with 5 post turn corners, 3 post end corners and 2 post pull braces every quarter mile I had a lot of breaks in 6100' of fence). I bought 8"top x 10' cedar corner posts for $35. T-post were heavy 1.33 6.5' for $4.67 on 15' centers. 660' rolls of Staytuff ST 949-24-660 for $290/roll. Gaucho 4pt barb on top, brace pipes and extra clips where extra.

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