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Desicated standing barley, why aren't the deer eating it?
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Alberta Farmer
Posted 12/2/2012 22:00 (#2729544)
Subject: Desicated standing barley, why aren't the deer eating it?



West Central Alberta Coldest, wettest edge

Neighbor has a crop of barley still standing what was desicated back in early September.  Fall forgot to happen this year, and so there is a bunch of crop still in the feilds, including this one.  I saw deer in there all summer, but don't recall seeing any in it after desication.  They completely cleaned up any little corners or strips of barley that I left standing.  And made short work of one swath I left for the neigbor to try out his antique combine.  They are happily eating my RR Canola swaths, that I couldn't finish combining.  They are digging through the snow in our yard every night picking up any barley spilled around the augers and bins.  I saw at least 20 deer across the road from this barley crop eating alfalfa under the snow, but not even a track in the standing barley.  Has anyone else ever seen this happen?  Do the deer know something about glyphosate that the rest of us don't?  Or is there something I should be applying here to keep the deer out of my own feilds?

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