RE: deer management
My suggestion is when he flips the peanuts (or the day before), go buy a few bottles of very strong and very cheap aftershave or cologne and walk around the permeter of the fields and spread a little on the trees or brush. That should keep them away long enough to do the harvest. I would freshen it each day just to be sure. Sounds corny but I bet it works, that has to be the most unnatural smell there is and deer would turn tail and bolt out of there as soon as they get a whiff of that stuff. Just my $.02