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<blockquote data-quote="wby257" data-source="post: 139934" data-attributes="member: 1035">Kind of figured that might be the case but not having been north of the Wilton ramp since September wasn't sure on. Farmer I know that year you speak of left a couple full sections of corn standing and when I went up riding the fields in the spring for sheds it was like you said the geese had hit it hard and there wasn't a cob left. I at first i attributed it back to deer activity but after talking to the farmer found out it was pretty much all goose activity. The real crazy part was he had baled up entire section of barley and the damn geese tore the bales apart which explained why the mountain of sheds I expected to find around the bales didn't exist.</blockquote>A Farmer left a couple of full sections of standing corn???&nbsp; That's 1280 acres of corn ground at say&nbsp; 60 bushels to the acre easy figuring and 4.00 a bushel that $307,200.00. Not many farmers can take a hit like that. Plus the Barley at 25 Bushels to the acre at 3.50 and 640 acres is another $56,000.You sure it was sections???[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="wby257, post: 139934, member: 1035"] Kind of figured that might be the case but not having been north of the Wilton ramp since September wasn't sure on. Farmer I know that year you speak of left a couple full sections of corn standing and when I went up riding the fields in the spring for sheds it was like you said the geese had hit it hard and there wasn't a cob left. I at first i attributed it back to deer activity but after talking to the farmer found out it was pretty much all goose activity. The real crazy part was he had baled up entire section of barley and the damn geese tore the bales apart which explained why the mountain of sheds I expected to find around the bales didn't exist.[/QUOTE] A Farmer left a couple of full sections of standing corn??? That's 1280 acres of corn ground at say 60 bushels to the acre easy figuring and 4.00 a bushel that $307,200.00. Not many farmers can take a hit like that. Plus the Barley at 25 Bushels to the acre at 3.50 and 640 acres is another $56,000. You sure it was sections??? [/QUOTE]

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