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farmers here are cutting hay as fast as possible to save what little there is from burning up. The fire department goes out at least 3 times a day for a prairie fire. CRP will be getting hit hard with emergency haying.......Hens walking with roosters in the fields at night without a brood in sight.

I haven't heard how they are. I live in SW so am familiar with this part of the state and I don't travel. I hope better than we are. Hope we aren't headed for another dirty 30's

A lot of haying being done here to save what they can. It looks like only 1/3-1/2 of normal production....Need some rain soon or it's toast for the crops. Its pretty yellow/brown looking far SW corner

I saw a small broad yesterday.....hope there were more in the grass I didn't see otherwise a tiny one.

our part of the state finally got some cool 3 days of soft rain so should get us off to a good start..a little later than usual but we'll take it.

One of the driest I have ever seen. Dust from kids shoes playing outside looks like plaster when they come in. Went to farm and have had seeds planted for a month and they are just there waiting to be watered. You can kick dust clouds up just by walking the field....Had to wear coat and face...

from my observations it seems like if it gets lower than 1-3 the population suffers. At least at my farm it does. A few more roosters seem to help alert to predators and help scratch out the food the hens can't get to etc...if rooster numbers get too low the hens seem to leave my farm for more...

It's been the most open winter of my lifetime.....hence the dry grass/conditions for the wildfire. I don't think we have had more than 3 inches of snow combined for entire year and most of that was last Oct. so dry, the dust was thick in the air like the dust bowl days and that is without the...

For those of you who hunt around the Lemmon SD area a huge wildfire began yesterday and is still burning today consuming over 20,000 acres to date. Not sure what this will do to next year's population.

It depends on what state you are in. In North Dakota it is illegal to hunt the ditches (roadway) when the land is posted on both sides

According to NDGF roadside report a nice increase for pheasants among other species for this year....not where 10 year averages are yet but building back towards it if we get just one more year of ideal weather we should get there.

no I won't plow under as there are some weeds etc. And I alternate plot locations year to year so next year this year's food plots will grow heavy weeds/sweet clover etc so I keep diversity on the farm that way......pays off as I usually have 100+ birds on 80 acres. For the first time I have...

Had some early moisture but pretty sparse from May on.....vegetation isn't as tall or heavy as normal but okay in places. Wish we could have had some June/July help.....

mine got hailed out and and what was left dried up, so nothing for food plots this year.

SW is dry as dust...corn is high but not much was planted. Sunflowers look okay for now...a lot of wheat is in the bin already.. Seeing a few more birds than last year at this time.

I’m getting impatient/worried as I still haven’t seen a chick.

I haven't seen a chick yet.....

seeing a lot of roosters in my area....did some food plot planting...need rain. Was disking an area near food plot to try to enhance/agitate ground to access seed bank. Had a pheasant hen slowly walk out in front of the tractor. I stopped and saw my disc was just 3 feet from turning her eggs...

Saw the weirdest thing yesterday. While driving to my little 80 acre habitat area I noticed a bunch of commotion by a small group of trees. A pheasant hen was running around with 2 Meadowlarks diving and harassing her. She didn't seem to know which way to go. A big ol pheasant rooster...

Looks pretty bleak SW but better in SE. Was surprised by numbers.....thought they would be more positive.