Even PGC officials seemed unconcerned at best or openly hostile at worst toward farmers, Gilbert says. That's all changing now. This lets everybody see we aren't the bad guys we were portrayed to be, and sportsmen aren't the bad guys either. We're in this together. But agriculture is in a serious state of affairs in Pennsylvania.
Some farmers are close to hanging it up because of deer damage.
Farmers certainly need help controlling deer, and we're hopeful cooperative efforts like this might help. It's like it was 20 to 25 years ago.