Rotating banger helps banish pesky birds

Pest control is a daily task for many farmers. Whether its rats and mice in the cattle feed or corn store, or weevils in the corn, leather jackets or wheat blossom midge, there’s a campaign to keep pest numbers and damage under control going on almost all the year round against something or other.

The public’s dislike of shooting and killing has moved the emphasis towards shooing the pests off your own farm land and onto someone else’s, and this is most aptly illustrated with bird scarers. Gone are the days when a farmer could buy a short rope fuse loaded with cartridges, and use this when the crows were at their most troublesome.

Now, the birds are getting used to being moved on, and so need louder and more persistent noises to get them to react. So farmers work out ways to make their bird scaring that much more efficient.