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Good job! Its a lot of hard work and money to get where you are. Food Plots corn seems to be king, but some of Pheasants forever Roaster Booster blends are good too. If you are planting any bushes I'm a big fan of Elderberry. They can handle the deer damage and can grow to 8 feet tall in...

I wish I could tell you the success or failure rate of releasing hens. We don't do it often but 3-4 years back the pheasant numbers were so low in our area that we felt we had to try something. As for raising chicks and releasing, we put zip ties loosely around the legs of the roosters and...

Well I am a member of both organizations. Pro Pheasants supports the local folks and tailors their support toward local pheasant population. I raise chicks and sometimes purchase and release hens and have seen a positive impact on our numbers. I know we loose a lot of these birds to hawks...

Our local Pro Pheasants organization subsidies Hens and pheasant chicks purchased in the spring, they also provide reimbursement for food plots planted and left throughout the winter. They also sell live traps that are built at the local high school shop class. They fund hunter safety and...

We have a few new areas we want to plant to evergreens and bushes based on how hard this winter is effecting the pheasants here. But we didn't prepare the ground this past fall. I highly recommend preparing the ground this spring, kill the weeds and plant to a cover crop like sorghum or millet...

I'm a big fan of Elderberry bushes, Here in SD they can grow 8 feet tall in three years, they sustain deer well and pheasants love the berries. Plante a lot of seaberry last year so we will find out this year if that was a good idea or not.

One other thing I forgot to mention, Land owners pay between 30 and 40 an acre to hay it under normal conditions. Under the new Biden Green initiative, there seems to be more carbon capture and conservation programs coming available for farmers to help with boarders around fields and wetlands...

South Dakota over the past two years has been in a significant drought, so that may be a reason the CRP was hayed two years in a row. Normally CRP is planted in year one and mowed to help with weed control. Year two and three the field is normally left alone except for spot mowing or...

Well there is some hope. Our conservation district planted 700 acres this fall and had to stop after the ice storm in early December. Most of the acres we planted were buffers around sloughs and we did a lot of squaring off of fields because farmers don't like to come back with their big...

WE lost some birds after the rain then blizzard a month ago. However we still have good bird numbers, But they are fighting to find food with the ice covering the ground before the snow came. Some hunting clubs are putting out deer feeders on timers with corn to help the birds. CRP is...

Haven't seen the dead deer like the pictures in this thread. Most of our dead deer are on the roads next to cattle feedlots. Pheasants in NE SD, well we had some dead ones frozen along road ditches between Groton and Doland. We still see large groups of pheasants working together to scratch...

Didn't think about it until you mentioned it. I wonder where that money is spent?

NE South Dakota 80 percent of beans are done, 10 percent of corn. Winds and chance of fire slowed things down the past three days. Lots of birds late afternoons on the township roads. Rather impressed with the bird and deer numbers.

Loota Roosters that have very little coloring and its two weeks before the opener....

Farmers will have a lot more money at risk then previous years considering this years input costs are crazy high.

Thanks, it's hard to be a Vikings fan.

Well a lot of small land owners do take care of the land. We had two nice 20 acre cover crop sites which borders corn ground and a nice pollinator planting around a wetland with the purpose of being a buffer for run off. The three sites were some of our best habitat this year. Site location...

We took the tops off of cattails at a slough and then spread them out across the borders of a couple of dug outs. It took two years to get them established but now they are spreading with each year.

Advertise that you have CRP available for Haying and then go out and mark the area you want hayed. Ours came back taller and thicker after we had it hayed. Would be nice if the NRCS would allow us to no-till drill in a few other taller varieties of grasses after haying. We have a wetland in...

The NRCS can help you. I would recommend you talk with them and see if they will go to your site and walk the ground. They will ask what your goals are and give you advice on what they can do to help you achieve those goals. They can also tell you what government programs you may be eligible...