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Police jury defers to farming statutes over scare gun disputes

Residents and farmers collided during a recent Jeff Davis Parish Police Jury meeting discussing late night air or scare gun (crop cannon) firing used to control seed loss from flocking fowl, such as geese, that are detrimental to local farming crops.

A few residents sited the practice can fall outside generally accepted agricultural practices (GAAP) when guns are set to automatically fire at few-se…

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