I wouldn't cut milo. I mow corn in MO with good luck. I mowed some trails through milo for visibility. They used it for travel, but would mainly eat in the standing milo.
MDC is funded by a portion of the state's sales tax, out of any control of the legislature, as I understand it. Every couple of years some legislator becomes angry with someone at MDC and tries to change their funding.
I haven't killed a buck since 2019. If it isn't a booner, I pass. I've killed plenty of 150" deer, don't need any more. I just stack up the does for meat.
Do as we say, not as we do. Most CWD states don't allow the movement of carcasses out of the county in some cases, across state lines in most. Yet, they haul cervids such as elk all over the place to reintroduce.
That's my methodology. 9 times out of 10 the crap a burglar steals is of less value than the damage they do to a door getting in. Seen it a million times...