Canada Goose? Rats with wings, IMHO. But they sure are tasty! Hunting season starts soon around here. We live across from a lake so our farm is right on their daily flight path.
Some days you can smack them out of the sky with a broom they fly so low, LOL! (But we don’t. The DNR don’t like that, LOL!)
They haven’t discovered my garden; there’s about 700 acres of crops around us for them to feed on.
We have a pair of wild geese that come to the pond in our backyard every year and they have done so for the past 10 years or so. There is an island in the middle of the pond where the goose nests and the gander hangs out in the yard with me while she sits. They raise their young and we have a pretty darn good time.
The good thing about having a "resident" pair of geese is that they viciously defend their yard and pond, which pretty much leaves us free from other geese. This year they raised 7 youngins, so there is quite a bit of goose poop to contend with in the yard, but it breaks down very quickly and I would imagine provides great fertilizer. LOL!
Actually, the geese are great in the garden. Before I covered the garden in landscape fabric, I had a horrible problem with nutsedge. Geese love to pull nutsedge and they provided a bunch of help. The drawbacks are that they are pretty clumsy and they step on everything and have been known to break a whole row of young tomato and pepper plants in an afternoon. I learned to stake them immediately at planting and cured that problem. The geese don't actually bother most of the vegetables, but for some reason they like to mouth the little green tomatoes. Just pinch them with their beaks so much so that they leave marks sometimes. That is why they get run out of the garden and they don't understand why I don't like their company in there anymore. I used to welcome them into the garden to help me deal with the nutsedge.
Now I keep corn on the ground just outside of the garden and, for the most part, I don't have to fuss at them very often. Yesterday they had cleaned up the corn and were looking for trouble! LOL.
We have never had a problem with the geese in our farm fields, but I do know folks who have when they have wheat. The fields where we generally plant wheat aren't around any big water, so they don't tend to congregate. We know the guys that farm in the area immediately around the reservoir, and they have had problems.