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WooHoo! The sky finally opened up at 3:00 this morning and we've had 1.52" since. It is raining again now and prospects look to favor more ahead!

Added .72 more on the 19th.

Picked up .97 yesterday and a bit of light stuff today. Other than that, had .06 total from 2 events earlier this month! Between me and my help, we saw 5 bobwhite last week on the area.

Sweet! Hope that bumps the upland bird mating interest! They need all the help they can get!

.48 in this weeks total. Not a drought buster nor the 3 inches the weather boys and girls predicted. More of the same.

We did get .84 inches in the rain Friday night! It sure started the grass on the wildfire scar greening up! Cover crop fields look better as well.

I've had 3.73 inches since September 30. Seeing a lot of vegetation dying and am not seeing some wildlife that seem to have disappeared. It's ugly!

I could sure help you learn the trapping methods that will take coons. Give me a holler and stop by and we can work you through a lot of trapping methods you can use. Conversely, the artificial feeding of deer, and coons at the same time, makes those raccoons more fecund! That means larger...

Twice I've had my hunting partner flush a coyote the dogs had pointed and the coyote almost ran over me while watching my partner. On both occasions I let the coyote know I was there when they were about 15 feet away by jumping at them and hollering. Both flopped onto their side still trying...

Merry Christmas everyone!

Had .21 more on the 18th with the rain/snow mix.

Did a bit better here. Had a flat .90 in the gauge this morning!

Good plan! Holler if I can help!!! Looking forward to a spring with adequate burn weather along with a saturated soil profile! I'm behind and need to move forward.

As with everything in nature, there is variability in this. The raptor migration varies across the state, the wheat height varies, the CRP density varies, the predator population varies, the escape cover varies.........the list goes on. Yes, there are other factors. Parasites, ag practices...

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I guess one of the misnomers that I am guilty of is using the word idling. When you idle a piece of ground you quit using the natural pressures that make that habitat functional. We need a CRP that pays at least as much as the owner would make while farming or grazing it, and it needs to...

I read an article in Quail Unlimited's magazine once about a farmer who used the GPS function on his combine back when it was a new thing. He found out that the unproductive acres in this particular crop field caused the entire field to be unprofitable. By idling the unproductive acres he made...

If we take precision ag one step further and idle unproductive acres, there is where we could get some improvement for our birds. Turning those acres into continuous CRP would help.

If you think about CRP a bit. If you are not in a rainfall belt of over 30 inches per year, those first 3-7 years after the CRP was planted were the very best years. This is due to the lower plant successional stages that the planting went through before the NWSG became dominant. If you think...

Those early stockings were frequently wild birds or F1 birds out of wild birds. Everywhere there was cropland, the cropland habitat was not what native birds were adapted to. Pheasants thrived in those unoccupied habitats. Some nest predators like raccoons were not prolific at the time as the...