RE: Question about deer numbers
There are way more deer for sure in farm country. Where I live there is a lot of winter wheat. Its planted in the fall and comes up before the first freeze. It looks like thousands of acres of lawn grass. This give the deer a very good source of food at just the time that everything else is turning brown and drying up. Before the winter wheat there were almost no deer in our area. The population is now huge. They can graze the wheat until into Jan. It also provides a good food source during the breeding season and keeps the doe in good shape for the birth of the fawns. When you have a good food source near excellent cover like we do in out cedar filled river breaks, then you have everything it takes to build a deer factory. I assume that the deer thrive in most farm areas in this country.