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Those acre numbers are misleading. Ten years ago there was very little, if any, pasture ground (Grassland CRP) enrolled. Now it makes up over 40% of the program and growing. 25 million acres today is not equal to what we generally think of with ~25million acres of farmland planted to habitat as...

I see. Was more curious as to how/why she would have 3800 acres (“six sections”) enrolled when there’s a $50,000 payment cap. Anyway, I’m not aware of any grazing rules except it can’t be done before the nesting period ends. Lot of info coming out the last couple years about intense/short term...

Does she have those properties under different names and getting full payments or what? Currently the max CRP payment to any one landowner is supposed to be $50k per year. If all the properties are in the program and under just her name she’d be getting about 30% of the county average for rent...

I noticed the website had been stripped down as well. They used to have a list of payments for the various practices which I had a pdf of saved somewhere, but can’t find that either. Pretty sure it was $25/ac to leave wheat stubble unsprayed until Aug 1 with an 80 acre cap. For a while there...

I get the sentiments surrounding the “good ol days” nostalgia. My grandparent’s farm is a mile off Hwy 24 and I can remember seeing the stream of bumper to bumper headlights heading west for hours on Friday evening. Goes without saying we’d all love to get back to that. I think it’s a little...

I consider myself a big bowhunter and really wouldn’t mind seeing the whitetail population fizzle out at this point either if it meant upland birds would flourish. But I don’t feel like it’s an either/or necessarily. I’m interested in why you think there’s so much more money in upland visitors...

In Kansas state statute reads that it’s legal to retrieve game until you’re asked to leave. It says nothing about leaving firearm/bow upon entry or whether or not property is posted. Though it does seem every landowner, hunter, and even wardens, as BrownDogs said, have their own interpretation.

Well said. And I come from a farm family that’s probably as guilty as any sadly. What sometimes isn’t mentioned in this discussion is that landowners and farmers are increasingly two separate groups. Sure, most farmers still own some land. But Iowa is 55-58% off farm ownership depending where...

I don’t watch much of their stuff but Meateater just sent Ryan Callahan to Aberdeen for an episode on this very topic. Pretty interesting to see what they do up there. Plenty of communities in Kansas could replicate that to some extent if they took the initiative. But it probably has to start...

From some old numbers I think it’s fair to say there were more nonresident bird hunters in the early 80’s than there are total upland hunters statewide today. Nonresident upland folks today probably total right around what nonresident deer hunters do. If you include nonresident landowners and...

Total acreage is essentially the same between the two. Iowa CRP payments total a little over $400 million a year. Kansas comes in under $90 million per. This is just a guess, but I’d imagine at the rates they pay in Iowa it becomes very attractive to enroll marginal/less productive areas of...

Do tell.

I certainly have admired the habitat and can appreciate the work involved. The reality is that for every PheasantNut there are dozens of landowners who do nothing for their habitat, yet allow baiting. This isn’t a private/public lands debate. Wildlife are a public resource. The department can’t...

Always neat to see your pictures. I do wonder how many predations your blocks and corn piles are responsible for though? The coyote picture drives it home a little. At the last commission meeting it was presented that bait sites see a significant increase over natural predator densities and also...

Thanks for the intel. No matter the exact acreage it’s certainly an exciting addition.

Very cool! Thanks for volunteering. Couple questions, BHA advertised the piece to be signed as 7,700 acres. The outline in your screenshot is roughly 1,000 acres shy of that depending on what’s going on just west of the county line on the SW corner. OnX shows the northwest corner of your...

The nationwide CRP cap is a moving target. In 2007 it sat somewhere around the neighborhood of 36million acres, an all-time high. There were almost 37million enrolled. Kansas had 3.25m acres. After that caps were lowered, grain prices soared for a bit, and acres were converted back. From...

Enjoy your trip birddogs! The fact is though, general Kansas resident hunters have very little to do with the maintenance and promotion of WIHA lands. These are private lands leased to the KDWP and paid for largely with Pittman Robertson dollars. The 2020 US hunting data shows non resident tags...

The ‘20/‘21 PDF version is on the site now.