Cost per head for cattle on grazing lease varies from just under $2.00/AUM to just over $2.00/AUM. For a 6 month grazing season that would amount to an annual payment of $12/cow/year.
This is just a guess, but I would think it might take at least 4 deer to eat as much as one cow so it would seem to me that one deer on a grazing lease would represent a loss of $3.00/year to the landowner in the value of grass it consumes.
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