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Travis Guerrant

Travis Guerrant

Wildlife Biologist and State Director at USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, specializing in feral swine and wildlife damage management in Missouri and Iowa

May 29, 2026

10:07
Well, could you dive a little bit more into how this impacts private landowners? How do they affect crops and lawns and, and what does that look like?
10:16
Yeah.
10:16
Where the, where the hogs exist in Missouri, it's, a lot of it's Ozark.
10:20
It, so there's a lot of pasture ground, but there is some, some creek bottoms and things like that when they've had row crops.
10:26
And we, we had one h- just, what, six years ago, we had people that had stopped trying to plant corn in certain areas because they had so much damage.
10:35
They couldn't get it in the ground.
10:36
The pigs would follow the rows, eat the seed corn when they planted it, and then when it got grown and got into a milk phase, they, they'd just flatten that corn to get that, get to the food, you know, 'cause it's sweet and it's good and, you know.

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