Additional state funding could reduce deer depredation for Michigan farmers while increasing meat processing capacity.
Dan Ulfig with the National Deer Association recently testified during a Michigan Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing about the need for the Department of Natural Resources to fund the Michigan Sportsmen Against Hunger program.
“We have a crisis here in Michigan and it’s primarily antlerless deer and it’s particularly the southern Lower Peninsula,” he says. “We have an overabundance of deer.