Could hemp be a good cover crop for pheasants?

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sbode

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Since it will be legal to grow hemp could it be a good habitat for pheasants during hatching season.
It’s hard to tell if any farmers will grow hemp although they could usesome alternate to corn and beans.
 
sbode said:
Since it will be legal to grow hemp could it be a good habitat for pheasants during hatching season.
It’s hard to tell if any farmers will grow hemp although they could usesome alternate to corn and beans.
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Hopefully beans will be planted less and the farmers wont be brainwashed by Monsanto and the other seed companies they have to buy their GMO crap and all the chemicals required to use said GMO crap. I'm guessing Monsanto and other seed companies already have patents on seeds that can be sold with their chemical cocktail of other products.
 
I remeber an unproductive corner waste ground ( Farmer Terms ) That was filled with Hemp I could almost always move a pheasant or two out of it on each hunt back in Brown County Ks and the dove loved it , they seemed to flush up and kind of cork screw out of the hemp cover , wonder if they were under the influence?
 
KSBrittman said:
I remeber an unproductive corner waste ground ( Farmer Terms ) That was filled with Hemp I could almost always move a pheasant or two out of it on each hunt back in Brown County Ks and the dove loved it , they seemed to flush up and kind of cork screw out of the hemp cover , wonder if they were under the influence?
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Likely no - Hemp has virtually no THC content which would be the psychoactive component - hemp can be grown for CBD Oil, fibers for rope etc.

Quick read that hi-lights some of the differences

https://ministryofhemp.com/hemp/not-marijuana/
 
In hunting season hemp, at least wild hemp, does not have a canopy like pheasants prefer. When I see patches of hemp in draws the ground is usually pretty bare within the patch. I become despondent at such times and roll and smoke a hemp stogie right then and there to elevate my mood.:laugh:
 
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KsHusker said:
Hopefully beans will be planted less and the farmers wont be brainwashed by Monsanto and the other seed companies they have to buy their GMO crap and all the chemicals required to use said GMO crap. I'm guessing Monsanto and other seed companies already have patents on seeds that can be sold with their chemical cocktail of other products.
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too much money in soy beans to switch to hemp!
 
sbode said:
Since it will be legal to grow hemp could it be a good habitat for pheasants during hatching season.
It’s hard to tell if any farmers will grow hemp although they could usesome alternate to corn and beans.
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What's the current market price for hemp fob Central SD? That'll tell you whether they'll grow it in lieu of corn/beans/wheat.
 
jhb076 said:
Shot some quail in a big patch of wild hemp, tasted horrible, just like Pot.
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I'm of the conclusion that no one on here understands that wild Marijuana/hemp does not have THC and is not the same thing as plants that are grown for their flower/thc content.


Quite frankly I would like every single drug legalized and taxed - kill 2 birds with one stone - cut off sources of revenue for the mafia/cartels etc, and increase tax revenue and take something that is in the shadows and bring it out in the open with reasonable regulation - proven time and again - if people are addicted or want something they will do anything they can to get it - just as well make it easy to happen and regulate it in a substantive way - not to mention Economically it's the only thing that makes sense.
 
KsHusker said:
I'm of the conclusion that no one on here understands that wild Marijuana/hemp does not have THC and is not the same thing as plants that are grown for their flower/thc content.


Quite frankly I would like every single drug legalized and taxed - kill 2 birds with one stone - cut off sources of revenue for the mafia/cartels etc, and increase tax revenue and take something that is in the shadows and bring it out in the open with reasonable regulation - proven time and again - if people are addicted or want something they will do anything they can to get it - just as well make it easy to happen and regulate it in a substantive way - not to mention Economically it's the only thing that makes sense.
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Fully understand difference between hemp and marijuana and the THC content. Just saying it tasted just like hemp or marijuana smells like. The quail crops were full of hemp seeds and they tasted horrible.
 
jhb076 said:
Fully understand difference between hemp and marijuana and the THC content. Just saying it tasted just like hemp or marijuana smells like. The quail crops were full of hemp seeds and they tasted horrible.
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I believe it. When I'm working on/mounting diver ducks my work shop smells like what they eat (a fishy smell). They taste a bit fishy too.

I don't know if this is true or not but a gentleman told me the deer he shoots up north have a pine-like flavor to their meat due to the deer eating pine needles in the winter.

Also, bear meat too. Spring bear taste different compared to fall bears which have been feeding heavily on fish to fatten up (where fish in a large part of their fall diet).
 
The Federal farm bills passed in both 2014 and 2018 made legal the growing of Hemp in all 50 states. There still are a couple of states that still ban it and South Dakota is one. In fact it is my understanding that there is a bill going through the SD legislature this year to legalize it but our new governor has said she will veto it. Obviously she does not understand what Hemp is. KsHusher is right, I think few people understand what Hemp is and think it's basically the same as Marijuana. While the Hemp and Marijuana plants are from the same family that is all they have in common. Hemp either contains no THC or less than 0.3%. THC is the ingredient that gives people the psychoactive "high". I just posted yesterday in the Main Bird Dog Forum on this site about using Hemp/CBD Oil for dogs. I'm going to try giving it to my Brittany that has allergies and see what help it might provide.
 
Native hemp is beneficial to upland wildlife;
“…The weed is an annual of the edges, easily controlled in fields by cultivation. It doesn’t interfere with agriculture. Heavy-stalked and many branched, it provides great hard-core cover for upland game during the grim days of late winter. Gamebirds also feed on its seed, but the food aspect is less important than its value as cover…

…And there are plenty of bobwhites in the hemp, as well as pheasants and rabbits. On a few trips through the rustling marijuana stalks, my hunting buddies and I saw enough quail to blow the mind of any bird hunter.

…In 1960 a massive snowfall chopped the legs from upland-game hunting. It was the mid-1960’s before game really recovered. Wipe out the big, woody, strong plants such as wild hemp and ragweed and sunflowers, then impose even a moderately severe winter, and the consequences to wildlife would be terrible….”
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http://www.globalhemp.com/1971/06/marijuana-is-for-the-birds.html
 
BritChaser said:
In hunting season hemp, at least wild hemp, does not have a canopy like pheasants prefer. When I see patches of hemp in draws the ground is usually pretty bare within the patch. I become despondent at such times and roll and smoke a hemp stogie right then and there to elevate my mood.:laugh:
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Sounds pretty harsh to me. 🤣
 
Probably tough to hunt them, in KS anyway, any farm that grows hemp technically has to have any worker or anyone that steps on that farm to be background checked with ATF.
 
jhb076 said:
Fully understand difference between hemp and marijuana and the THC content. Just saying it tasted just like hemp or marijuana smells like. The quail crops were full of hemp seeds and they tasted horrible.
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I like the tast of....oh wait...no... I didn't say that!!!!
 
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