The average deer eats 8 lbs of forage per 100lbs of body weight per day.
Over the course of a season (6 mos), them 40 deer would eat about 57,600 lbs of crop.
That more than “a few”
Friend I live on a farm, there are deer in the back field everyday. I hunt and eat deer ever year, I just choose not to engage in wanton slaughter as this man does.