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I found a dead spoonbill duck laying on a township road uneaten. I do not know why it died.

Very little.

They get skittish on private land too, late season. Thanks

Are bird numbers that low? How many birds do you get shots at in 15 miles?

Are they pointing labs?

I do have other alfalfa. I do not consider it a ca.sh crop as we feed it rather than sell it. I buy hay rather than sell it as I want to import nutrients and organic matter. It greatly reduces the need for commercial fertilizer which seems to be a big deal now.

There will be many acres planted. Because I managed to pick up more pasture I am putting old tired CRP and alfalfa back into crop production. Beans and wheat will work for me, my son will plant corn, beans, and wheat. Still have 100 acres of CRP plus 80 acres of full season cover crops for...

That is a good thing.

My first hunting dog was a chocolate lab that I got for free out of a box full of puppies at the sale barn. He weighed 100 lbs. and was a great pointer. He taught me more about hunting pheasants than I taught him. That was in the 80s, I still miss him.

Just heard that Farm Bureau is asking for CRP to be released to avoid a food shortage. Might want to talk to your elected officials.

Thank you for considering soil health. What I like to plant is proso millet, milo, forage sorghum and sunflowers. That takes care of the pheasants. For soil health I would put in a brassica but not turnip or radish as they present a hazard for hunters. I would add some oats, flax as well as a...

We used to have them until the winter of 96 - 97, that wiped them out since the we have gone to more corn and beans less small grains and less short grass. I have released them a couple of times but that didn't help. If you figure it out let me know I miss them.

I understand what you say. Industrial ag is terrible. I am on the board of the South Dakota Soil Health Coalition. We are in the process of spreading the word and we are slowly making progress. That is why when Goose gets bent out of shape because I get volunteer hunters to fund habitat he...

Like I said you and I don't see things alike. I produce grass finished beef, and I have been certified by the Audubon Society as producing my beef in a bird friendly manner. You could have a picnic among the wildflowers where I finish beef. I don't want 5% of my land producing wildlife, I want...

I didn't mean to offend you, all I said was well managed grass benefits cattle and wildlife and that birds and cattle have a great symbiotic relationship. Both of those points are without doubt. It appears that you have trouble understanding that. What I did not say is that cattle and grass...

Well if you think that something happened that isn't spelled out in the contract you should gather your evidence and take it to the proper authorities. In the mean time I doubt that any hay got cut until the nesting season was over. So you got the benefit of nesting habitat plus the other...

You said losing all of our CRP to feed Texas cattle. Whose CRP is it? If it is yours you could control that, If it is not yours then the one that owns it decided what was the best use of his resource.

I did say well managed grass. Any land can be managed to not produce wildlife. You would be wrong about how we manage our grass and why. I learned holistic grass management from my father and he learned it from his. School land will have deer hunting possibilities but not pheasants. Well...

Thank you for supporting my opinions. I have been pheasant hunting for 57 years on this land. I have run a pheasant hunting operation for more than 20 years. I have seen a lot in that time and remember quite a bit of what I have seen. I remember the Soil bank days and the early 2000 s. I...

I don't remember the actual temp but well below zero and windy. A fair size group of us circled a shelterbelt and the shooting began, it was so miserable that the pheasants were flying back in while we were still shooting at the ones that were still flying out. It was all shooting and no...