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Hemp and deer movement

melocal

melocal

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Two things happened this year on and near a ~100 acre piece of property in relatively rural Maine that I hunt -

1. Traditionally the property has always held a lot of deer. Property is posted, I am only person who is allowed to hunt it, but this year it was like there was a fence around the property keeping deer out. They vanished.

2. A local hay farmer turned hemp farmer (perfectly legal in Maine), started a ~50 acre hemp farm on a piece of adjacent property. This new hemp farm is really the only change to the area that I have been able to identify.

Anyone have any experience in how hemp might affect deer movement in a given area and nearby surrounding property? This is an area of Maine where deer are used to tractors and the equipment / noise that regularly goes along with different agricultural operations.
 
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