Recent content by cyclonenation10

"Conservation can accomplish its objectives only when it springs from an impelling conviction on the part of private landowners" Leopold was right..

Makes complete sense. The only nesting birds really have now is CRP and road ditches. Hay fields seem to get cut too early for viable nesting, very little pasture. Just not producing many birds anywhere but CRP.

Thanks all! Sounds like a good idea would be to wait a while yet - will keep everyone posted !

Given we have no snow pack now - would it be too early to use our grain drill to seed in the next week or two? Will oats do OK frost seeded or would we have better germination waiting ?

We've got our ~100 acres of CRP that we dormant seeded this Fall. We've also got three 3 acre food plots that we need to plant this Spring on the property as part of the CRP program. There is not much habitat around currently, and only a handful of birds, so 3 food plots is way over kill for...

Grea Great question - I would think the 5 acres in NWSG was probably the biggest influence on higher bird numbers, but obviously I can't say for sure.

It sold for $28K an acre? I thought $15K an acre was crazy around here..

Yes - it is getting very tough. Even our nice stands of switchgrass a pretty much done for. Hunting is extremely difficult. Going to be very tough on the birds here. Hoping we get a warm and dry December here, or it could get pretty bad.

That is awesome!

I think you're spot on- plus the increased predation when snow knocks out a bunch of habitat. Makes a whole lot of hens pretty easy targets for aerial predators.

More snow than I expected.. had some great hunting over the weekend, but boy was the walking tough. Lots of nice stands of prairie are effectively barren now. This could get pretty tough on the birds if it doesn't warm up here soon - thankfully the temps and winds haven't been terrible, so the...

So far so good - numbers are definitely down but having pretty good success. I think it will get pretty tough after Thanksgiving with so much hunting pressure however.

That is high priority later this year - I have been dying to check out your property!!

remy - which seed mixes did you go with on your big farm? Was it mostly 20-20 mixes, 10-30, etc. ?

Family is living in the acreage - very good people that we know, so hunting around the acreage is not an issue.