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CRP Needs You Now - Please Act
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NC IA Tail Chaser
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CRP Needs you now
Done, Thanks for the post link takes no time at all. CRP is an important resourse to all hunters.
Done, Thanks for the post link takes no time at all. CRP is an important resourse to all hunters.
UGUIDE
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YES! The organizations backing this have big seats at the lobbying roundtable in Washington.
This is how you get things done. Takes the vote of the people. Pass the word on.
NewWingshooter
Member
Done! I don't hunt much, but when I do, it's land that is accessible to the public so this is important. :cheers:
pheasanthunt
Member
Done, thanks for posting.
UGUIDE
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I read an article in Agweek this morning and there was a forum at Dakotafest in Mitchell SD and Sen Thune and Rounds and Rep Noem were promoting the same concern and promoting the need to expand the cap in the next farm bill. Seems like good early support for this. Signing the petition is critical.
HollowWatcher
Member
Done...Signed!
Done - Something is out of whack with the supply/demand of cropping... there needs to be the alternative that the American Farmer can choose.
Food, water, shelter. Not one is more important than the other, basic needs for any living thing and we are seeing the effects of removing one.
Food, water, shelter. Not one is more important than the other, basic needs for any living thing and we are seeing the effects of removing one.
Signed...
I've hunted in Ohio all of my life. Ohio DNR pretty much gave up on supporting pheasant hunting statewide and if not for federal CRP subsidies it would be pretty much gone completely. They have also seen what was once a good huntable grouse population crash to non existence in many areas and without the pheasant's to hunt grouse definitely took on a lot more hunting pressure to where I no longer find them in many places they used to thrive. I've seen this first hand. Even rabbits are scarce in many places theses days.
The decline in Pheasant populations hasn't just been happening in Ohio.
We see it happening all across the midwest including states like South Dakota.
If we don't all work together to support the traditions of upland hunting the opportunity will become pretty much a thing of the past for everyone but those who live in the most remote places or those who can afford to maintain their own private hunting estates. For many it already has.
As taxpayers year by year we are all steadily contributing to the destruction of upland and many other kinds of wildlife habitat through federal agriculture subsidies of modern agricultural practices that focus on squeezing as much cultivated agriculture and monoculture out of the environment as possible with a significant disregard for stripping the land of wildlife diversity and resource conservation. Wouldn?t it make much more sense to focus a significant amount of effort to alter those subsidy programs so that anyone who uses them must also be required to maintain specifically arranged percentages of that acreage that has long term benefits to the environment and wildlife? Modern AG practices are clearly the most significant source of the problem. It is where counter efforts should be focused. Doing otherwise is like struggling against ourselves. Nibbling around the edges with many small separately focused organizations and programs that establish tiny wildlife honey holes or a sparse number of remote wildlife preserves just won?t be effective in the long run. This is not only in the best interest of the hunting community but also includes that of any organization or citizen who is interested in being active in appreciating and taking part in a wildlife healthy world to live in.
See; Shrinking pheasant habitat in South Dakota a big worry
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I've hunted in Ohio all of my life. Ohio DNR pretty much gave up on supporting pheasant hunting statewide and if not for federal CRP subsidies it would be pretty much gone completely. They have also seen what was once a good huntable grouse population crash to non existence in many areas and without the pheasant's to hunt grouse definitely took on a lot more hunting pressure to where I no longer find them in many places they used to thrive. I've seen this first hand. Even rabbits are scarce in many places theses days.
The decline in Pheasant populations hasn't just been happening in Ohio.
We see it happening all across the midwest including states like South Dakota.
If we don't all work together to support the traditions of upland hunting the opportunity will become pretty much a thing of the past for everyone but those who live in the most remote places or those who can afford to maintain their own private hunting estates. For many it already has.
As taxpayers year by year we are all steadily contributing to the destruction of upland and many other kinds of wildlife habitat through federal agriculture subsidies of modern agricultural practices that focus on squeezing as much cultivated agriculture and monoculture out of the environment as possible with a significant disregard for stripping the land of wildlife diversity and resource conservation. Wouldn?t it make much more sense to focus a significant amount of effort to alter those subsidy programs so that anyone who uses them must also be required to maintain specifically arranged percentages of that acreage that has long term benefits to the environment and wildlife? Modern AG practices are clearly the most significant source of the problem. It is where counter efforts should be focused. Doing otherwise is like struggling against ourselves. Nibbling around the edges with many small separately focused organizations and programs that establish tiny wildlife honey holes or a sparse number of remote wildlife preserves just won?t be effective in the long run. This is not only in the best interest of the hunting community but also includes that of any organization or citizen who is interested in being active in appreciating and taking part in a wildlife healthy world to live in.
See; Shrinking pheasant habitat in South Dakota a big worry
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Lee192233
Active member
Huntsem,
I agree 100%. I've seen AG practices destroy every last inch of possible pheasant habitat here in East Central WI. There are no fence lines, grassy waterways are basically lawns and nobody plants any small grains anymore. Here's an example that really irritates me. About 2 miles from my house there is a 100 acre property that had 2 ponds installed, a large pine windbreaks planted, and about 20 acres of native grasses around the ponds. This was done about 20 years ago with taxpayer money. I personally saw a couple broods of pheasants in summer along the road over the years. Last year the land owner decided it was time to sell it. It sold for 11k an acre to a neighboring large dairy farm. They promptly drained the ponds, cut and burned the trees and plowed it all under. The state and feds simply can't afford to purchase any land or talk anyone into crp around here. Land rent is around 300 an acre and it sells for up to 15k an acre for good farm land. It's all about the $$$$$$$! Unless farmers decide to implement more conservation practices we won't see any improvement.
We as upland hunters need to unite and make our voices heard. Join an organization such as PF, and a local conservation club. Write your representatives. SPEAK UP! I'm going to get off my soapbox now.
Have a happy new year!
Lee
I agree 100%. I've seen AG practices destroy every last inch of possible pheasant habitat here in East Central WI. There are no fence lines, grassy waterways are basically lawns and nobody plants any small grains anymore. Here's an example that really irritates me. About 2 miles from my house there is a 100 acre property that had 2 ponds installed, a large pine windbreaks planted, and about 20 acres of native grasses around the ponds. This was done about 20 years ago with taxpayer money. I personally saw a couple broods of pheasants in summer along the road over the years. Last year the land owner decided it was time to sell it. It sold for 11k an acre to a neighboring large dairy farm. They promptly drained the ponds, cut and burned the trees and plowed it all under. The state and feds simply can't afford to purchase any land or talk anyone into crp around here. Land rent is around 300 an acre and it sells for up to 15k an acre for good farm land. It's all about the $$$$$$$! Unless farmers decide to implement more conservation practices we won't see any improvement.
We as upland hunters need to unite and make our voices heard. Join an organization such as PF, and a local conservation club. Write your representatives. SPEAK UP! I'm going to get off my soapbox now.
Have a happy new year!
Lee
It will be about the next farm bill. I do not know what the next administration will bring. Crop insurance and the cap on CRP are the deciding issues. You say it is all about $$$$$$$, absolutely. Ag is in tough financial times right now and operators need to be very careful right now. Whatever is good for the financial well being of the farm is what will happen. Find a way to provide an incentive to the landowner to follow the practices that you want.
We can start with the idea that ANY AG activity that uses a tax payer subsidy must include an action that maintains a specified percentage of acreage that supports wildlife. If an AG producer needs or wants a tax based subsidy or insurance in order to operate then they must agree to maintain a percentage of the land as wildlife resource conservation habitat.
Under the current system as taxpayers WE are ALL contributing to the industrial AG production practices that lay waste to wildlife conservation practices.
THIS is where our wildlife conservation organizations should be focusing their efforts. It's the main cause of the problem and nibbling around the edges and not addressing it directly is not a good solution.
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Under the current system as taxpayers WE are ALL contributing to the industrial AG production practices that lay waste to wildlife conservation practices.
THIS is where our wildlife conservation organizations should be focusing their efforts. It's the main cause of the problem and nibbling around the edges and not addressing it directly is not a good solution.
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