Gophers are expensive
The pocket gopher is a voracious, non-paying consumer of cash crops.
While he will eat almost any plant, he prefers thick rooted plants and vegetables.
Legumes are highly favored, which makes alfalfa and clover prime targets.
He will also devour plants above ground, as well as roots and tubers.
Plants are consumed by surface foraging at night and by severing the roots
in the burrow usually 6 to 10 inches below the surface, pulling the plant underground.
Their take can amount up to 4 to 5 pounds of crop per acre per day.
Easily equaling a 120 pounds an acre per month.
Gopher mounds can also be costly as well as hazardous.
Equipment can be damaged by rough fields,
sicle blades gouge into the dirt and crops covered by the mounds
are smothered. Burrows often Cave in causing water to be lost during
irrigation and increasing soil erosion.
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The pocket gopher is a voracious, non-paying consumer of cash crops. Gopher mounds can also be costly as well as hazardous.
While he will eat almost any plant, he prefers thick rooted plants and vegetables.
Legumes are highly favored, which makes alfalfa and clover prime targets.
He will also devour plants above ground, as well as roots and tubers.
Plants are consumed by surface foraging at night and by severing the roots
in the burrow usually 6 to 10 inches below the surface, pulling the plant underground.
Their take can amount up to 4 to 5 pounds of crop per acre per day.
Easily equaling a 120 pounds an acre per month.
Equipment can be damaged by rough fields,
sicle blades gouge into the dirt and crops covered by the mounds
are smothered. Burrows often Cave in causing water to be lost during
irrigation and increasing soil erosion.