I have never donated a deer to hush nor will I. Im not wanting to start a debate on it either. Does anyone know how many get donated each year or have any statistics over the years on this program? Id also be interested on how much lockers charge or are compensated on each deer, where the meat goes or how it is passed out.
JNRBRONC
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HUSH DOWN: Iowa’s HUSH program continues to go strong, though donations are down. Help Us Stop Hunger provides processing for donated deer, with the meat going to area food pantries for distribution.Entering its second decade now, HUSH has processed 56,000 deer. That peaked in 2007 with about 8,000 whitetails donated by hunters. Last year, it still held strong at about 5,300.
“The steady decline in donations parallels the decline in the size of the deer herd,” said HUSH coordinator Jim Coffey, from the DNR.
Many of those HUSH donations were deer taken with extra antlerless tags. As deer numbers have dropped to target goals, so have donations.
There are 89 lockers across Iowa accepting field-dressed deer for HUSH. They are listed in the Iowa Hunting and Trapping Regulations (p.34) or at www.iowahush.com. Around here, Ruzicka’s in Solon, Boyd’s in Washington, Roehrkasse Meat Co. in Williamsburg, and the Tiffin, Tipton and Brighton Lockers accept HUSH deer.
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“The steady decline in donations parallels the decline in the size of the deer herd,” said HUSH coordinator Jim Coffey, from the DNR.
Many of those HUSH donations were deer taken with extra antlerless tags. As deer numbers have dropped to target goals, so have donations.
There are 89 lockers across Iowa accepting field-dressed deer for HUSH. They are listed in the Iowa Hunting and Trapping Regulations (p.34) or at www.iowahush.com. Around here, Ruzicka’s in Solon, Boyd’s in Washington, Roehrkasse Meat Co. in Williamsburg, and the Tiffin, Tipton and Brighton Lockers accept HUSH deer.
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