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  • From: "Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai" <potzkai AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: perennial weeds and deer damage
  • Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:26:15 -0800


Hi Victoria,

I don't know if this is much help - but, we have a deer problem that we've been handling perhaps unconventionally. They like to come in and eat our strawberries. They do serious damage to the plastic that was used to hold down moisture and weeds and allow the strawberries to grow without competition. The plastic was there when we took over the farm so we now know not to use it when we put in the new fields. The deer come into the field - graze a bit - then I guess they just lay down for a snooze. We've come across the area where large animals have obviously put there feet up so to speak. How we handle it is - we let them, and we don't disturb there nesting area. They seem to always go back to the same place. They don't consume to the amount that we are concerned about it.

Good luck with your exams, Jacqueline


From: Victoria Mundy Bhavsar <toria AT pop.uky.edu>
Reply-To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: perennial weeds and deer damage
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:51:10 -0500

Hello everyone,
I need some unusual help. I'm about to take my Ph.D. oral exam, where six
professors fire question after question at the hapless student. If I pass,
I'm supposed to be smart enough to get a Ph.D. Mine is in soil
microbiology, working with organic farms.

One of my profs was very kind and told me exactly what he wants to know on
the orals: how effective is organic weed control for perennial weeds like
johnsongrass; what sort of damage deer do to organic farms; and what deer
control measures organic farmers might support!

Well, these seem like questions to be referred to the group! I know what
people *can* do (theoretically), but not what they *actually* do. Believe
me, I will give credit where it's due, and if you all can help me pass my
orals I'd be awfully grateful!

Reply to me privately if you like, but my guess is that some of these
topics might be of general interest.

Thanks ever so much,
Victoria
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Victoria M. Bhavsar
Dept. of Agronomy
N106R Ag. Sci. North, UK
Lexington, KY 40546-0091
606/257-2103
...But other seed fell into good soil and brought
forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold,
some thirtyfold... St. Matthew 13:8
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