Keep pheasants out a corn

[Lee Borgersen]

..South Dakota approves repellant to keep pheasants out of corn and sunflowers.

April 02, 2012 at 09:01 AM
 

SIOUX FALLS, S.D.  — South Dakota farmers have been granted a federal waiver to use a nonlethal repellant to keep pheasants out of corn and sunflower fields.

The Argus Leader reports (http://argusne.ws/HAC8ct ) it’s fifth year the state Agriculture Department has applied for an emergency exemption to use Avipel.

Officials say Avipel doesn’t kill pheasants but irritates their stomach and they quickly learn to avoid it.

The exemption allows Avipel to be used on up to 1 million acres of corn. Last year, more than 140,000 acres were treated.

The waiver also allows sunflower farmers to treat more than 123,000 acres. Last year, nearly 48,000 acres of sunflowers were treated.

[jeffstally]

I wonder how that chemical may or may not affect a human that eats one of those pheasants???

[kenhuntin]

Here starts the end of the great pheasant hunting in South Dakota. Resident farmers are sick of the things to begin with.