Pop-poof-thump
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Hello everybody, I want to relay a story to everyone and see what opinions people have and shared thoughts, also. I started hunting with my Uncle in the mid 80's out in south-central Nebraska and fell in love with pheasant hunting and the people of Nebraska. The land was in CRP and the hunting was great or at the worst decent. We had to work for our birds, but that is what made it something special. At this time, I was just a teen and I only saw things the way a child sees things. I didn't understand the struggle what a farmer goes through to feed his family. I grew up and hunted the same family farm in the 90's and then the CRP grass started to disappear. The enrollment was coming to an end and I noticed the pheasant population started to drop as well. In the 2000's, I started to pay attention to the price of corn and beans which is going up and I start to put 2 and 2 together and figure out this is not good for pheasants. The new talk from the farmer out there is to plant fence row to fence row and cut more hay. I know now that farmers are making hand over fist compared to 20 years ago. Ethanol is a joke. So my question is can there be a balance again? I do love those people on the family farm more than some of my blood relatives. I have a son now and I want him to see things the way I saw them. I guess I am not much on change.