ATV and truck tracks found in a soybean field that hunters entered to retrieve moose they’d shot is just the most recent incident of hunting on farmland without permission, say southwestern Manitoba municipal leaders.

A Reston-area farmer, whose neighbour first discovered gut piles in his unharvested soybeans, reported the matter, which is now under investigation, to Manitoba Sustainable Development earlier this month.

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It’s not the first time they’ve heard complaints like this, said RM of Pipestone Reeve Archie McPherson.

“We’ve had other incidents of people hunting on farmland and going through crops to retrieve animals that they’ve shot,”…