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We have established all the right habitat to keep pheasants around except we lacked a consistent water source. We would have good pheasant numbers all spring and summer long but in the fall the numbers dropped significantly. We decided to spend $1000 and have an excavator dig us a small dug...

You can expect 80 percent of the beans to be harvested and a little more corn harvested then average. Corn is ready to be harvested the farmers would have more done but we have gotten rain on Sunday and again today which slowed corn harvest down. Field edges will remain good hunting spots and...

We hunted on GPA, brother came down with his two dogs, one is on its first year so wanted to see how well they will work together. Anyways, we hunted for about an hour. Flushed five roosters, bagged one, missed two and the other two flushed too far away. Also flushed a few hens. The GPA...

Guys a lot of CRP was baled this Fall, and a lot of the big farmers are baling or burning sloughs that are dry, with hopes they can plant that ground next year. It's a bad situation for Habitat... So Please do your recon and find out if your favorite ground was effected, so you have time to...

I will be the first to admit that I thought the winter of 2018-19 was so hard and long lasting that the Pheasant numbers in our area would drop significantly. I was wrong. We have been seeing a good number of birds. With all the moisture we have received already this year the CRP and other...

Guys, Now is the time to get into the Soil Conservation Office and talk over next year projects. In South Dakota you can apply for grants to help restore old shelter belts. And there are programs to help in reducing personal cost for installing new shelter belts. Also the new Farm bill should...

We raised 250 pheasant chicks and released all of them this past summer. With the poor pheasant hatch that took place last year, I have been talking with many of my neighbors about raising and releasing pheasants in 2018. The local pheasant chapter is considering helping us out with our...

Hey guys just a reminder the conservation offices are taking orders for next Springs tree and bush orders. Bundles of bare root trees and bushes in quantities of 25 are going for 2 dollars a plant. They normally take orders up until Thanksgiving or so. V/r SDviking

Hey guys looking for a little advice on what bushes to plant on the down slope of a draw, still about 10 feet above water level when at it's highest point. I have planted lilacs on one side on the top of the ridge and on the other side two rows of red cedars. I want to put a row of bushes...

Just wanted to share the outcome of this years food plot work. Photo one is what sorghum looks like planted in 21 inch rows. This is the first year we have planted at this width we normally planted at 14 inches. Pheasants I think liked the wider rows, definitely easier for the hunter to walk...

Wow what a weekend, first off the weather was fantastic for March 50-70 degrees. We drove up from Kansas to Souix Falls to Watertown to Redfield to Aberdeen to Mobridge to Isabelle, to Red Owl to Chamberlain to Sioux Falls. Crazy I know. We saw some pheasants on the eastern side of the state...

By now a lot of us have driven up Interstate 29 to South Dakota to hunt some birds. If you were fortunate to drive through Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa and lower South Dakota during day light hours, you might have noticed how the crop land is managed. In North Western Missouri you noticed the...

Was hoping to catch some pheasants but ended up with these photos.. SDviking

Hey guys, I went back to the Watertown area this weekend to clean up an old farmstead (40 acres). While up there I checked out our food plots. The corn is anywhere from 4 to 7 foot tall depending on how sandy the soil is. The Pheasant Forevers Blizzard Buster Sorgum was between 3 and 4 foot...