The Missouri Farm Bureau has opened applications to livestock producers for a sub-permit to ‘take’ black vultures on their land.
The Bureau obtained a statewide depredation permit for black vultures from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service allowing action by livestock producers experiencing problems with the animal.
Kelly Smith with Missouri Farm Bureau tells Brownfield applicants will be scored on a range of criteria.
“Are they having current depredation problems, what is the extent of depredation over the last three or four years on their property, how many livestock do they have on their farm, how many black vulture roosts and numbers of black vultures in the vicinity,” Smith said.
