Folks who understand farming: going to several towns away for imaging, I drove past miles & miles of fields with corn stalks recently cut down to about a foot high.

I also observed an inordinate amount of dead deer on the side of the road. Is there a correlation?

I’ve never seen so many dead animals. Upsetting. Wondering if the dry fields are pushing them to find water?

Or is this city girl just making up things?

Wondering if these deer hid in the corn stalks

@LnzyHou Harvesting produces a certain amount of waste grain. They were probably foraging at night. A lot of wildlife does. Migrating geese depend on stubble fields to fuel themselves. I know that, during hunting season (before harvest), hunters lay for deer on game trails leading into and out of corn fields. They also set up hunting blinds in stubble fields for geese.

@TwiHusband @LnzyHou

Still, that level of wasted meat doesn't track. Yes, farmers will rightfully defend their crops, but localities tend to coordinate with say, Fish & Game, to have licensed area hunters who want the meat, take care of the culling. All those carcasses laying about only create more problems.

@fugitive247 I think what she's seeing is mostly roadkill, with the odd poached deer that the poacher can't recover. Some farmers (a lot of them) just don't want hunters on their land, period. It's their right, and I can't say I blame them. @LnzyHou

@fugitive247 There was a guy I knew in Michigan that had a small herd of beef cattle grazing a corner of his land. Mostly he farmed beans, corn, and wheat. He got tired of his cattle being shot at, so he painted "COW" on them. Both sides. Two of them were killed afterward. Shot dead center through the "O". A LOT of farmers have no use for "hunters", and for good reason. @LnzyHou

@TwiHusband

Those weren't hunters. They're assholes.

#SorryNotSorry

@LnzyHou

@fugitive247 In my experience, most guys with guns in the field, in or out of season, are assholes. I quit hunting myself after being shot at by a "hunter" for the second time in two years. @LnzyHou