Deer meat yield from a Missouri buck totals thirty to forty five percent of the live weight after removing twenty to thirty percent during field dressing.

Missouri deer vehicle collisions involve white tailed deer crossing highways due to thriving populations and fragmented habitats across the state.

Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease outbreaks in white-tailed deer are caused by an Orbivirus transmitted through biting midges.

Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease causes severe deer die-offs in Missouri, spread by biting midges during late summer and early fall.

Missouri removed the Chronic Wasting Disease Management Zone to change deer hunting regulations across affected counties.

Missouri chronic wasting disease prevalence rates, sampling data, and geographic distribution across local deer populations.

Chronic Wasting Disease in Missouri deer explains how fatal prions spread through saliva, urine, feces, and contaminated soil.

Chronic Wasting Disease was first detected in Missouri during 2010 at a captive deer facility located within Macon County.

Antler Point Restrictions in Missouri protected younger bucks from early harvest to increase the average age of the herd.

Missouri deer harvest data reveals how buck age structures shifted after antler point restrictions were removed.