Photo Credit: Martin Lowney, USDA-APHIS-WS
Illinois farmers experiencing threats to livestock by black vulture populations can now quickly access a depredation permit.
Illinois Farm Bureau’s Associate Director of Commodity and Livestock Programs Tasha Bunting tells Brownfield IFB is working with the USDA Wildlife Service and Illinois Department of Natural Resources to issue federal sub-permits to livestock producers.
“Black vultures on preying on specifically beef cattle and sheep during late winter and spring calving and lambing seasons.
