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Maryland farmers urge easier crop-damage permits, expanded deer management
Summary
Multiple producers told the House Environment and Transportation Committee that deer damage accounts for a large share of crop losses and urged state action to simplify crop-damage permits, expand harvest opportunities and fund fencing and other mitigation measures.
Producers from across Maryland told the House Environment and Transportation Committee on Jan. 28 that deer are causing chronic, severe crop losses and that state hunting and crop-damage rules should be changed to reduce economic harm.
"On an average year...we lose between 15–20% of our crops just to deer," said a grain producer on the panel, describing how GPS yield mapping allows farmers to quantify losses. "The deer are key to profitability very much so," he later added.
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