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["Kristina & Bruce" <herenorthere@lycos.com>]

I read something somewhere about geese being used to weed strawberry 
plantings at a commercial scale.  I thought it was here but, since no one 
seems to have mentioned it, I must have seen it elsewhere.

The gist of it is geese are sent out into a strawberry field in some 
organized fashion I can't remember.  They ignore the strawberry plants if the 
berries aren't ripe, but are merciless on weed seedlings and whatever else 
they find.  And manure the field while working (something I try to avoid 
while weeding strawberries).  The geese are removed from the field (a month?) 
before harvest, to avoid fecal contamination.  I think the geese are sent 
into the fields as goslings and are later sold as Christmas dinner.


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