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Closest I’ve come I guess you would call a report triple. Rooster got up and dropped him, another, and another. All from the same spot, flew the same direction and fell within maybe a ten yard circle. Hunting alone and I was done within half an hour.

We are conflating two different situations. I’m not that familiar with the South Dakota situation, I have farming family out there but don’t get into the various program rules. One situation is privately owned land that is enrolled in some sort of public access program. Haying and grazing on...

I totally understand the frustration. I make a good portion of my income from selling hay, the government releases this CRP and the hay market reacts. Only one year in the last several have I been able to hay CRP, and I followed the rules about not being able to sell it. I gave it to my...

Nice shotgun.

Very nice photos. I could never get one dog to pose, let alone that many.

Land swaps are done, we traded some to the DNR years ago for some state owned land that bordered our farm. There is occasionally talk of selling some very valuable land on West Lake Okoboji the state owns.

Fire is about the only advantage native grasses have over brome. Burn early May (around here) and that will set the brome back and encourage the natives.

Folks around here get really wound up when the DNR grazes some of their land. It’s a very common practice around here. Extremely low stocking rate of cows gives them the mix of heights they want to see. They do this mostly on pure native grass stands. There was an old farmer near here that had...

It’s my understanding that the original poster is saying publicly owned land is being hayed. Is that correct? So big ag and making ends meet wouldn't have anything to do with this situation. It’s just a management decision the DNR made. Maybe I’m misunderstanding.

Traditionally here in Iowa the tenant would be the one to grant permission, unless something is in the lease that says otherwise. I farm rented ground and rent other ground out to be farmed. In those cases you would have been the trespasser and the other folks would have been right to have...

Possibly it was a recently expired CRP contract.

I’ve never done anything stupid. Thats my story and I’m sticking to it.

I can only speak to the practices around here regarding the haying of state land. From what I’ve seen the DNR will hay solid stands of native grasses, spray round-up the next year and plant Round-up soybeans for two years, killing everything. Then they will plant their pollinator mix, mow for...

As I’ve said before, the loss for next year won’t be a bad as a person might think. I can understand it is discouraging now.

Very well might have beans on it next year.

We always get a few with the combine when doing corn at night.

Welcome to my world.

All I know is that many times I go out first thing in the morning and see them fly out of the trees, never questioned them as to how they slept. Our chickens will roost in trees and they can’t even fly !

I see them in my grove roosting from time to time.

I avoid the opening few days of deer season on public land, after that the frenzy tends to die down a little. Private land wouldn’t be as much of a worry, but most everyone allows deer hunting on private land so there’s that.