[QUOTE=Oldtimr;4315207]Check out the last fence in this literature, the Penn State Electric deer fence. They are all over PA and the State Game Commission has a cost sharing program but that is for protecting crops, not food plots. Given that the cost for an average size fence to protect crops, material and labor, is $7,700 a fence for a couple of acre food plot would be substantially less. There is an occasional incursion, but the fences work well.

[url]https://www.all-creatures.org/hope/DOE/4%20-%20Transport%20Canada%20-%20Electric%20

the fence I spoke of, was actually installed by the PA Game Commission, back in the early 70's
I think it was a study farm at the time, as the farmers brother was a warden, and he got the fence for him??( could also have been one of them special benefits of knowing the right person too ??)
there was also PA Game Commission Deer feeders on the property(still remains of a few left, as there rusting away now)
were like 55 gallon drums modified, and had PA Game Commission ID tags riveted in them, and spray painted logo on the drums ??
which I always found to be counter productive to, trying to keep deer out but at same time feeding them, drawing them into the area?

BUT ??LOL