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New guy with a pic on his first post...yah, you'll fit in good here! Welcome from a neighbor to the south.

At this point, I am sure I can raise pheasants better that corn or sorghum. Pencil-in a trip to NW part of the state.

Exactly. The farm with all the birds is 154 acres of great habitat and 6 acres of food plots. We have 2 other farms with creeks that have filter strips, those amount to around 5 acres each, if you flushed 20 birds out of one of those, it would be a lot. Between 10 and 20 would be what you...

They can't ask everyone, guessing every state does it quite similar. Guessing they use an average harvest that is reported, times the percentage of hunters that report going pheasant hunting...but not nearly that simple or maybe it is a simple deal. I have had a hunting license for close to...

I certainly could have, on a label I just googled, (similar hericide) for grain sorghum 5-15" high...use drops if over 8". This label said 2 thirds of a pint/acre, I thought mine said 1 pint...I used 1 pint and I am not equipped with drops, so some crop damage would not be a surprise, I didn't...

There are different food plots pictured, each of these were planted 3 times. The fist planting had one-third corn and the the balance wes sorghum. In the second pic above you can see one corn plant that survived (upper right), the birds really got after the seeds. I ended up spreading shelled...

460,000 roosters....how many did you report Bob? Here is a link to the article https://www.iowadnr.gov/news-release/2025-07-08/pheasant-hunters-bagged-more-460000-iowa-roosters-2024

Careful, on posting where PF helped give public land hunting opportunities. We have more than a few that are PF haters here. I am sure you won't catch them on any ground PF had a hand in....right!

The climate has seemed to have changed here, another 1.25" of rain this week. Here are a couple pics of some of the food plots. A lot of grass coming through, but at least I have finally have some of the target crop survive. That sorghum needs to get growing and heading out. There was a...

Received .45" over the weekend and a bit over .8" last night. The crops look awesome around here. The last several years the chicks had hot & dry weather to deal with, at least it has been warm with these rains. We had a pretty awesome carry-over, there will be a bumper crop of birds again if...

I think in those situations when you are physically about spent, your concentration becomes more acute. It is a huge rush of relief mixed with a good amount of satisfaction folding a rooster with a tough shot in those conditions. Been there before also.

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Just 6# 2-4D, 1 pint per acre....now if they could modify grain sorghum to be round-up ready....

Finished spraying the plots today. Took a pic of the plot I left yesterday, if you zoom-in, the left side you can see the velvet leaves, but on the right side (where I sprayed yesterday), they are all rolled and wilted. In this plot, there were a lot of places with no sorghum. I will feed...

I sprayed about 4 acres of food plot this afternoon, saw one chick and he was small, but got airborne! Hope to spray the remaining tomorrow, winds, should be much calmer.

We had been very short on moisture in my pocket, but the last 3 weeks or so has changed this. Getting dumped on during the hatch, but I am guessing we will be just fine. On a positive note, the 3rd planting in the food plots is growing fast. Just need to get them sprayed, will try to do that...

That could be on the market for a while. I scanned the description, it mentioned "white oaks". This property is within 80 miles of me, I have never seen a native white oak here, everything is burr oaks, but maybe??? This is right outside Sioux Falls (a lot of businesses home base there), so...

That is a lot of coin for something with very limited income potential. Hardly big enough to get several guys to share it. As Weim says "seriously wealthy" as the ROI is the satisfaction you get from being there.....on your short quarter. Even a seriously wealthy guy is doubtful unless it is...

I think these food plots are the reason for the number of birds we have. Without the food plots, the winter food would be an issue...well, it kind of is already, even with food plots, I just need to make them more productive and harvest more roosters.

Next spring I will give things a early shot of round-up. I have the grasses encroaching and several patches of Canadian thistle through out. Also will try the Avipel, it will be cheaper and easy to buy and apply that, than planting 3 times and then feeding a couple hundred gallons of shelled corn.