Dave and Renee Dickson oversee operations at Foster Farm Acres in Buffalo Township. “Renee owns the place and I’m the caretaker,” Dave said, referring to his spouse, whose family has been in charge for three generations. “We raise beef, hay, oats, corn . . . whatever the deer don’t ...

As Rich Burd sat at the kitchen table the other night, he looked out the window and was taken aback at what he saw. “There were 14 deer eating soybeans,” said Burd, who grows corn and soybeans on his 1,100-acre Burd Farms in Fayette County. “They are a scourge. Crop damage from deer ...