I've got bears tearing up my sorghum plot. Is there any remedy other than shooting or an electric fence?

Zap or a Blast

Some folks in this part of Va have the same bear problem with their corn crop. They got some help from allowing coon hunters to hunt their property. The dogs don't go after the bears but apparently just the activity of the dogs and hunters in the woods drove the bears away and reduced crop losses.

Just for the record, I don't have coon dogs or coon hunt.

Have you tried Plot Saver? I know it works on the deer.

they were just startin to get into mine,then the neighbors field corn came ripe about the same time and they aint touched it since.learned good timing my first few yrs and they lived in it till the corn got ripe.

Bears around here love corn. I've seen fields that look like crop circles after bears have been trashing them

As much as I don't like dog hunting I wish a pack of hounds would come through here and chase them to Richmond. I had one big boar in the plot last night and a sow with 3 cubs the night before.

I tried a little experiment and put a FM radio in the foodplot tuned to a black christian holy roller station blasting music all night long. So far, 3 nights and no bears. I have cameras at both places they come in the plot and they come will come and stare at the plot, but will not come out of the woods. I wonder how long before they acclimate to the radio and come in and eat the darn thing. I started to try and find a rap station but I just don't hate the bears that much.

LOL, Likely shrivel up the corn!

What is something the bear rather have? Friend once got an 80lb molasses block and put it out. Bears rolled it over and over for what must have been hours per day. It was indestructible.

Bears are SLAVES to thier stomachs!
When they wanna eat, there is NO noise that'll keep em away.
Bear could give a crap less..
Seen it WAY To Many times!

My favorite stand of all times is about 100 yards from a major hiway bridge. Can't say how many bears I've seen (100's) when people park,shoot while parked at the bridge. M

Pop music should make them puke I would think!! Lol

Bears are freaking annoying.

I know a guy in Alberta who plants a couple hundred acres of corn (fenced with barbed wire) as winter feed for his cattle. We hunt coyotes around it in the fall and the bear damage is impressive. I know that barbed wire is no problem for a hungry bear but even so, once they have a way in it gets ugly fast.


As for the black rock/gospel music that seems to be working, after it stops working try an endless loop of Barry Manilow. I heard they use it in North Korean prisons to break the toughest men down.

Pete

I know of a fellow here, ahem, who a week plus ago left a radio blasting rap crap music blaring all night at a sight where he was re-building a bear stand. The bears tore that site up that night.

Tthat same guy is now getting pictures on his trail cams of bears with gold teeth, wearing hoodies. Gonna be an interesting hunt there I'm betting.

Osky

It was classic rock you dolt

hoot em Elizabeth,hoot em.

So far no bear pics for two days but don't know how long it will last.

I feed Plotts to save food plots. There is a product you can spray directly on your food plot guaranteed to keep bear out of it though.

Care to share the name of the product?