The conservation department has its first comprehensive plan to eliminate an estimated ten-thousand wild animals that have become significant problems in Missouri. 

It’s always hunting season for feral pigs.  They’re such a pest, mostly south of I-44 and in the Truman Lake area, that Governor Blunt set up a multi-agency task force in 2008 to find a solution to the problems they cause.     

The conservation department’s Rex Martensen says they’re big problems for farmers.

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And the only thing to do with them is kill them.  He thinks the department kills about 500 a year.  Records are not kept on how many are killed by others. Some people say they’re okay to eat.