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Farm-Wildlife Bill

Kentucky farmers and landowners whose crops or property are damaged by wildlife would be permitted to kill or trap those animals if a bill approved today in the House Agriculture Committee becomes law. It would also enable the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to establish procedures for the donation of carcasses to hunger relief programs.

Bruce Harper is with the Kentucky Farm Bureau, which supports the measure…

The KFB says many farmers lose crops to deer outside the hunting season.