Recent content by Matt D

I’ve been using prescription shooting glasses the last couple of years with different colored lenses. Most days yellow is the choice but on bright days the brown works well. I love purple for shooting clays on sunny days but for hunting they were terrible for me. One short walk with them and...

That is a really wide question. Going to depend greatly on location. Eastern edge will see the numbers listed above in some areas. Here is the 2024 SDSU survey. I won’t say it’s perfect but think it does a pretty good job of giving an accurate idea.

That is nuts for sure. Really helps to understand why cover is disappearing since with these land prices they have to farm every acre they possibly can. The other side is some times there are some extending circumstances that come in to play making land sell for more than it should on paper...

That seems nuts. That is getting up there to ground that can raise very good corn rates. Not sure how anyone can pay that to graze it? That ground can be bought in some areas at $2500 an acre. Even at $3000 an acre that is over 10% return on the rental rate. What is he telling you the purchase...

I agree. Know it is legit as they offered the family I work for the same offer. We don't believe it makes sense to take good farm ground out so told them no. We own between the proposed field and the transmission lines so they are wanting to negotiate right of way to bring the lines through...

Here locally they are wanting to put in a large solar field. They have locked up about 1000 acres with purchase agreements for $47,000 an acre if the project gets approved. Freaking crazy. Seems insane to me to take good farm land out of production that is 30-50 miles away from large cities...

Cuga here also and no complaints

Last year there was one in PA that got infected. Possibly one in Kansas but I wouldn’t swear to that. Difference in hatchery versus wild would mainly be the number of birds in close proximity to each other. Here is a snip from that announcement. Due to a detection of Highly Pathogenic Avian...

Tell me you two wouldn’t be doing the same. 😂

I bought a nice leather bound journal last summer with my name engraved on it and took it with me to SD. Made myself record each days events including where, what dogs, land owners we may have visited and such in it. Also put a little sub note with how many I killed of the total versus how many...

Everything below in what you posted is in reference to Road rights-of-way. In other words surrounding means the 660 feet surrounding the property that is in the road right of way. Not everything in a 660 foot circumference of the house as your interpretation is implying.

Been a good 3 days. 6-6-10 including 3 matched sets today of deer we let walk this year with high hopes for next year. 2 sets were already chewed but the biggest set shown below was pristine as it was out on a grass lane.

I am in Ohio.

I love it. That was about 1.5 - 2 hours of walking.

Finally a Decent afternoon. High expectations for this weekend as we are finally gonna walk some of our good stuff. See what happens.