They can also be used in sugar beets, tomatoes, onion, carrots, hops, blueberries, evergreen and deciduous nursery crops, and in orchards. Other crops are suitable for their use as well, though more research is needed in this area. For instance, geese can be used in rough leafed varieties of pineapple but reportedly will damage vegetation of smooth leafed varieties. Each crop requires somewhat different management of geese, which is why there are no definitive answers with their use. The only experts are those who have used them with a specific crop, with specific weed problems, under specific climatic conditions, etc.
Experiences often vary.
One grower has used them extensively under bananas while another says they pick holes in trunks. Geese will eat young Bermuda grass, Johnson grass, sedge and nut grass, puncture vine, clover, chickweed, horsetail and many other weeds. This same grower uses sheep in conjunction with his geese to weed the mint. The sheep eat many of the broadleaf weeds that the geese do not eat. Geese will also eat windfall fruit under orchards and some unharvested crops and crop residues which can harbor and over winter disease and insect pests.