QUEBEC — The province’s hugely popular annual wild turkey hunt is going to get bigger.

Faced with a turkey baby boom and growing complaints from farmers about crop damages caused by the giant birds, Quebec’s Ministère des Forêts, de la faune et des Parcs has decided to authorize a second hunting season in 2020 — this one in the fall.

Under the old regulations, the hunt was only allowed in the spring and only of male birds. Attracting hunters from other provinces and the United States, the annual hunt nevertheless produces an estimated…