New baiting ban in Michigan
Has anyone seen the release from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources that has banned baiting in the entire Lower Peninsula of Michigan because they have identified one case of CWD in a penned animal in a county in southern Michigan?
The Michigan DNR is clueless. Did you know that in Michigan when you high fence your property you have to kill all of the deer inside, then bring in fully tested deer so that they know you are starting with a clean herd? Unless you double high fence your property, that is useless. Your deer will still have nose to nose contact with deer outside your penned facility unless you have an extra high fence to separate the animals.
Now that they have banned baiting in all of the Lower Peninsula, what is going to happen to all of the farmers who have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in crops that they typically sell to hunters in the fall? And what is the difference between a plot of alfalfa and a bale of alfala scattered about?
What is next? No planting food plots? Cut down your fruit trees? Cut down your mast bearing trees?
This is a "knee-jerk" response to an isolated incident. I can smell law suits coming from damaged farmers.
Jeff
Mountain Home, TX