‘I have 100 scarecrows but still can’t protect my crops from geese’

[Still Waters]

Orkney farmer Marty Hay has a problem with geese.

The greylag geese can eat their way through an acre of crops a night which cost £700 to grow.

Marty has 100 scarecrows, has used gas guns and spent numerous hours trying to see off the geese, to no avail.

He is frustrated that the main focus in Orkney is to rid the islands of non-native stoats instead of dealing with the geese problem.

He has 300 acres of crops and says that for many farmers, the geese are more of a pest.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl4yxlzp34o

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[Ell]

Do not grow crops.

Breed pony's and sheep.

Buy a large freezer and eat frozen geese 365 days /year.

[+joc]

13 hours ago, Ell said:

Do not grow crops.

Breed pony's and sheep.

Buy a large freezer and eat frozen geese 365 days /year.

Every farmer pitch into a lottery...put a bounty on geese...the hunter with the highest count wins the whole pot!