Unseasonably Warm Temperatures Raise Food Safety Issues For Freshly Killed Deer UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.) Temperatures above 50 degrees Fahrenheit during deer season means hunters must be aware of food safety issues as they dress and transport their hill to be butchered or processed, according to a meat scientist in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. “Hunters should get the deer out of the woods and delivered to a processor within 12 hours,” said Ed Mills, associate profes sor of dairy and animal science. “Hunting tradition is that you bring the deer back to camp, hand it in a tree and leave it there until it’s time to go home. In weather like this year, you INVENTORY REDUCTION \ "ii i plow Parts That DIG DEEP INTO THE Soil, not into YOUR POCKET. 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