[Apple-Crop] Deer Damage

Sat Jun 18 11:54:25 EDT 2016

Hello  Fellow  Growers,

We maintain over 10 linear miles of 8 foot high woven wire fence with two additional strands of high tensile above to give us 9 feet total.  It is the best investment we have ever made in our farming operation.  Perhaps equally important to our irrigation.  You will never fully appreciate how much crop you are losing each year until you fully exclude the deer from your fields and orchards.  Naturally we still back up any intrusion by providing the deer  with lead pills.

We tried all of the repellents, then had electric, but nothing works like the woven wire fences.

Best,

Kurt

Kurt W. Alstede

General Manager,

Alstede Farms, LLC

P.O. Box 278

1 Alstede Farms Lane,

Chester, New Jersey 07930

United States of America

Tel:  908-879-7189

Fax: 908-879-7815

www.alstedefarms.com

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From: apple-crop [mailto:apple-crop-bounces at virtualorchard.com] On Behalf Of Hugh Thomas
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 10:49 AM
To: Apple-Crop discussion list
Subject: Re: [Apple-Crop] Deer Damage

I tried everything I could find out here in Montana - the commericial products, bars of soap, sprayed-on soap and somethings I forgot. I found the solution with an eight-foot hi tensile wire fence around our property. The MSU research station near us has an eight foot electric fence, and the mule deer get on their sides and squirm under the lower wire. 

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Pat Curran <pat at curransorchard.com> wrote:

A few years ago I experienced a significant amount of deer damage on new plantings & requested a depravation permit from the Illinois DNR.  They suggested a product called Plant Skid, & said it had worked well  in other locations.  I did so, and it definitely helped the situation.  It also works well on vegetable plots when sprayed around the perimeter.  The drawback is that it must be resprayed after rain washes it off.

Having said that, I concur with others on this list. . . the best deterrent is lead.

Pat Curran
Currans Orchard
6385 Kilburn Avenue
Rockford, Illinois 61101
815-963-7848
pat at curransorchard.com
www.curransorchard.com

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