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We're setting up for another 80s train wreck. There are a lot of farmers in trouble, when you have to have good to record years to break even with inputs and land prices but have going on 3 yrs now of bad crops it doesn't work. There are farms that have equipment sitting on bank property right...

I'm not sure they even care about the monitors or even being "approved" to graze or bale crp. They just do it. When you have zero consequences who gives a rip. It's a great model for them, get paid to let your reserve grass grow, have twice the stocking rate you should, then you when you run...

My grandpa used to say "a good ass-whippin' is all some people understand, then you'll run into the rare ones that are too stupid to even learn from those."

My grandpa lived for his dogs and we had a lot of quail when I was a kid so he's at fault lol. But living in Manhattan during college and having good access to pheasant sealed the deal for this guy.

SE KS, about 20 mile from MO unfortunately for my bird addiction

At this point I'd love to pay for a "save our sport stamp " if I thought it would actually hire marketing and compliance people to grow these programs and actually police them. I spend a hell of a lot of money, to me, traveling to find wild birds, I'd much rather spend it here.

I'd love to know if kdwp and nrcs for that matter could even tell you who is or isn't in compliance in regards to haying or grazing of crp or wiha tracts at this time of year? And if it is in a "emergency drought area " and I use quotes jokingly, if they left the percentage they're supposed to...

I'm too far east for pheasant unfortunately.

We reluctantly broke out pasture slowly over a 3 yr period because we didn't have any feed on us. I'm not sorry we did it and we left more than adequate cover in my opinion while adding food sources. It has helped tremendously with the deer and turkey, not as much as I would have hoped on the...

We farm close to 20% of the 440 acres we own or lease. The rest is rotational grazed or just left alone. The crop benefits us by income yes, but mostly to me in wildlife feed. Now I'm not what should be the target for these programs as I'm going to farm for wildlife and my dogs to have a place...

They do a shit job of promoting programs. I live on acreage and am on the books with FSA with farmed acres and I've never been approached in my life about enrolling any acres into any type of program. Never seen any type of mailer explaining program options that I can remember either. When a...

When these farmers want to chirp about government/wildlife departments not telling them what to do with their land, be quick to make sure they don't accept their government backed insurance checks or crop subsidy payments.

Gov Kelly, She'll let 'em hang and do the right thing, I'm sure of it. hahahahahahaha

They aren't the most productive acres, that's what's so frustrating. The outer edge of any crop especially by trees has substantially lower yields than the rest of their field. If the wildlife departments would show them what they'd save by moving out even 15 ft and save that tillage, seed...

I broke down and went out to what we'll say central area last weekend to hunt with some family in town. Cover was the best I'd actually seen in that area for a few years but it was terribly dry at that time. We saw birds in 1 wiha of countless we hunted Saturday and not even 1 quail...

If they were honest about what they actually might lose in true profit from leaving some edges around everything, then I guarantee you there is a guy on here or myself that would gladly pay that number to hunt those strips. Because the true number is a lot less than you'd think.

Nothing good will last with social media these days. Everybody forgets the consequences of posting those pics so they look cool to their buddies.

When we pay the habitat stamp in SD I didn't mind it at all until you look and see a heavy majority of the funds go to lake projects and boat ramp upkeep👎👎. Hopefully Iowa does a better job of using funds. I would have an issue with one in KS because I have no faith the funds would actually go...

Got 2 "pretty crappy" and one "could of been worse" coming from the 3 groups I talked to that I trust. The "could of been worse" was a long ways from the other 2, those 2 bad reports were within an hr of each other hunting private and wiha. Second hand knowledge though

Saw more hunters in that area than I have in the last several years too