Recent content by newfarmer

My father in law is coming out of his CRP next spring and wanted to go into the "Tree CRP"... they are making him cut EVERY tree in the crp currently (all along the edges for the most part) but are being real big sticklers on it. Hes decided he will not be doing anything with them going forward...

Last I paid for my deer and antelope was $750 for each... havent mounted anything since, just boil the skulls now. Had a local taxidermist to one of my work areas was offering "show quality" mounts for $1500, and then a "standard" mount for $500. His standard mounts looked like the ones that...

I’ve trapped heavily here the past couple years and have A LOT more nesting here and hatching out. I think there were studies of roundup making eggs infertile? I do think bobcats are killing lots of birds and nest raiders clean up the eggs/young…

If you want to leave it better- you need to get rid of invasives. Or at least put a large dent in them so that way the woods can regenerate naturally. Just my 2 cents

The fear is- everyone wants to get rid of LOT tags, youth have had floating tags for years… everyone wants one buck- we’re gonna end up with a floating one buck tag ‍♂️

They were hoping everyone was arguing about Resident LOT acres that no one would notice this...

I talked to both neighbors and a DNR officer and a Forester up here in North Central Iowa. Neighbors have only found 1 shed on about 600 acres total of darn good habitat, I have found zero on all of mine. Talked to the officer, he said he has had LOTS of calls for salvage tags. Talked to the...

Burn it. Thats my only option- they won’t let me do anything else.

I think- maybe I am wrong- a lot of people with cabin fever are out in a lot of woodlots pushing deer around. One of my workers smacked a deer a few weeks ago, in the middle of nowhere- 5 miles from the nearest group of trees (literally wide open bean fields in this area) and he somehow managed...

Weren't the first couple of deer shows over in like Waterloo/Cedar Falls or something? I ask because my Grandpa has trophies from the shows when they were there, there was no "Classic" in Des Moines yet. My wife worked for the Classic for many years before TBI got involved- I never asked why-...

Its been awhile since I have been up to South Dakota, but I believe they allowed residents like 2 weeks of public lands first before non residents could hunt. Residents were mad because "non residents come up and shoot our deer before we get to hunt". I mean, of course if a non resident comes...

So I was told the farmer never recorded the acres- so no history- but the farmer recorded his acres (the amounts of acres never matched apparently)

Mine got signed up by the previous owner- $72 an acre . He had no clue what he was going when he signed up stuff and really made a mess of my piece. Tempted to buy it out so I can enroll it differently but really not cost efficient.

I knew you’d respond after listening to Prairie Farm the other day

Saw this just now