Assessing and managing 🐗

🔎 Managing feral swine starts with good data indeed – and so, to serve as a baseline for assessments on the matter to private landowners and provide a broader and deeper understanding aimed to inform regionwide control measures, the Arkansas Forest Resources Center in Monticello led a multi-state survey of landowners to assess the economic damage to croplands, forestlands, pasturelands/livestock and their combinations.

     • Common swine damage to forest landowners includes girdling trees through rubbing and damaging roots by rooting and chewing. As for crop owners, soybean, corn and rice fields are a buffet table for the animals – one sounder (a group of hogs) can root up a pasture overnight and even kill and eat newborn calves and vulnerable cows.

👀 Understand more about the survey and its result here.