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Hazelton, Kansas | Pilot,
I don't have a number, but most of our damage is to beans. I think it depends heavily on moisture conditions. On a good year, the deer heavily graze around the edges, and the beans actually seem to set more pods where they graze. On a dry year, I've had them take 50-acre patches from 20 bushels or so to zero in about a week.
We also have obtained damage tags from Kansas wildlife and parks, but our experience has been that the benefits are short-lived. You can shoot them by the dozen, but the surrounding deer move in pretty quickly. There are many hundreds of them on and within 3 miles of our land at any given time. And only a few of the neighbors are silly enough to grow beans here, so we get to feed them all.
So...I hope someone chimes in with a better answer. I'd suggest lions or wolves, but I'd sorta like to stay at the top of the food chain here.
FWIW
MDS
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