Dunno if the number of farmers and land in crops has risen or dropped, but should growing complaints about crop damage also be ignored as well just for the sake of holding on to the good old days of deer hunting?
Landowners and farmers have been given excellent tools in the form of red tag farms, DMAP programs, PGC Co-op programs, and the LINK pogram by the PGC. If they fail to take advantage of these programs, it is through no fault of deer hunters.