Never had good success with electric fence. If you want to save the sweet corn you must eliminate, not deter, the problem. That means killing every one of the masked bandits.
I have trapped (and shot) 28 raccoon this year along one edge of my sweet corn. They have still managed to destroy half of my first 3 plantings. About $1200 in sweet corn that I would have sold roadside, at market and to a couple of local grocery stores...
I run a half dozen of the mid sized live traps, staked to the ground with a rebar fence post... Coons will tip traps over otherwise and push the door open. Bait em with marshmallows. They love sweet stuff.
Get up at sunrise, grab your cup of coffee, handful of 22 shells and your 22 and take a walk...
Now that the field corn is pollinating the pressure is off of the sweet corn, the coon are attracted to the pollen scent. 4th and subsequent plantings have no coon damage. Walked the fields last night. Have not caught a single coon in a week and a half.
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