HUTCHINSON COUNTY, TX (KFDA) -
One study set to begin this fall could make a difference for farmers and hunters in the eastern panhandle.

The migration pattern of mule deer and how it affects hunting and farming in the panhandle has never been tracked before.

But now Texas Parks & Wildlife is teaming up with Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas Tech University and Sul Ross University to learn how landowners can best cope with these deer.

Texas Parks & Wildlife said it gets regular complaints from farmers who could see hundreds of these deer at once eating their crops.

"It's very easy to look out there and, you know, if you see 200 head of mule deer on your crop land to go, 'we've got a problem, and they're damaging the crops,' which they probably are," said Chadd Malone, wildlife biologist with Texas Parks & Wildlife. "But if we find out how long those deer are actually utilizing those crops, that may aid those farmers in better managing when they plant the crops or maybe how they build their fences or what crops they plant during what times of the year."

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I didn't realize that TX mule deer migrated. Should be interesting.

I didn't realize that TX mule deer migrated. Should be interesting.

Here is a neat video that really makes one realize the challenges they face.

This is from Wyoming, but still worth a watch.

I didn't realize that TX mule deer migrated. Should be interesting.

More of a concentration then true migration, kind that makes farmers cringe

We have a neighbor that really hates to see a herd of 20+ MD in his young cotton fields. They love to eat the green boll when they are young/tender. Leaves a bare spot with no cotton on the edges of fields. Cost him many $$$$

Don't know what they can do with study information except fence them out.