We have found out what deer like to eat and how to grow more of the important foods like honeysuckle, greenbriar, acorns, and beautyberry. We have studied how antlers grow, what kinds of sounds deer make, and many other things. This information helps landowners, sportsmen, and the wildlife agency manage deer better. The MSU Extension Service helps provide the research information to the people of Mississippi. The MSU-Extension Service provides this deer display program to you.
Money is important to people, and deer can help people make money, or deer can cost people money.
Money can be made when landowners lease the hunting on their property to a hunting club. Sporting goods stores, taxidermy shops, gas stations, and seed and fertilizer dealers all can make money by providing equipment like guns and shells, food planting seeds, and fertilizer to sportsmen who like to hunt. Deer can cost people money when their population grows so big that vehicles hit many deer or agricultural crops like soybeans are eaten up before the farmers can harvest their crop. Sometimes deer eat trees that foresters plant for timber. So it is important to control deer populations by hunting.