Deer hunting season is a couple of months off, but the Missouri Department of Conservation is still taking measures to stop the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease. One of those includes making it illegal to feed deer in CWD zones. Jason Isabelle is the Cervid Program...
Two hundred forty-three new cases of Chronic Wasting Disease have been confirmed in deer in Missouri over the past year. The Department of Conservation says the CWD-positive cases were found during the 2024-25 deer hunting seasons in Missouri, with most of them from...
Fewer deer were bagged by young hunters during the second half of Missouri’s youth firearm season compared to the same period a year ago. Part two of youth firearm season took place from Black Friday, Nov. 29th, through Sunday, Dec. 1st, during which hunters...
Governor Jay Nixon (D) has vetoed two agriculture omnibus bills because they contain language that would transfer regulatory control of captive deer to the Department of Agriculture. The sponsors of those bills say those vetoes will be easy overrides in September....
A House Committee will take some time this summer to consider how to battle chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological disease in cervids, including deer and elk. 21 cases of chronic wasting disease, or CWD, have been found in Missouri, all since 2010 and all in...
