I really think most people have NO clue how much damage wildlife does to crops, be it elk, deer, bears crows, raccoons or??
I have part time farmed and friends with many full time farmers and I have seen acres of damage from bears in one field, I have sen acres of damage from crows
you just cannot imagine how a flock of crows every day for weeks , how much they can eat!
this is why there is crop insurance, and why farmers in most places can legally control some of the numbers of things that eat there crops!
nature of the beast
you plant food, things will come to eat it!
Killing things for eating, things we plant? has a double edge sword view I guess to some too!


also,
yrs ago it was the MAIN reason most farmers allowed hunters on there lands, to help curb the damage
but some how, hunters ruined it , they started doing damages of there own to lands, and the game changed!, law suits, thieft, and lack of consideration , ruin it on the whole in most farmer
add in so many these days will PAY money to hunt good farm lands
and its a odd sort we all enjoy !