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The evolution of weapons allowed in Iowa's regular gun seasons is a big slippery slope, no doubt. Just like crossbows worming their way in to regular archery seasons in so many states over the years, and for anyone, not just the limb-handicapped. I would be very surprised if we aren't allowed to...

Given these are tags that were allotted from the beginning of hunting season in Fall of 2022, I don't have an issue with the late season in general, they're not "extra" tags. Unfortunately there will certainly be hunters who end up shooting shed bucks, but the only thing I can control there is...

You've got to find the deer on public in late season before you can shoot them. No easy task. I pulled several cameras from a few different areas of public yesterday morning. Had put them out just after 2nd shotgun season ended. A couple of them in one area had very few deer pics in that time...

Yeah, I'm sure that has something to do with it. I was told today at a license vendor in Lucas county that some guy came in and bought 30 of the late antlerless Lucas tags that went on sale today. That....would certainly be one reason they were running out pretty quick. Almost seems like...

We've got some late antlerless tags in Appanoose and Lucas counties. Wasn't going to buy today for Lucas, but after they went on sale this morning I noticed on-line they were going fast so I ran into town to get a few. App was at about 250 yesterday and they're now at zero, no more left as of...

This exact scenario is actually one of the primary reasons underpinning the high prices of the last 18 months. Demand has been higher than usual (and it was already high to begin with), and inventory of land available for sale has been lower than usual because a lot of landowners who would sell...

We had some farmer friends over for dinner last evening. They're in their early 60's and farm pretty close to 1,000 acres in eastern Iowa. Most of their land has been in the family a long time. I didn't ask if he owns it free and clear but my guess is yes. 70 csr2 type ground on average he said...

Your first statement is in many cases true unfortunately, but not all realtors are like that. I would however disagree with the 2nd part of your statement. The market is absolutely proving a lot of guys wrong about the valuation of their land right now. Lots of stuff sitting right now that is...

I don't know the ratio of down payment to loan amount on a lot of these auction purchases, but money hasn't been cheap to borrow for a number of months now and these very high auction prices for high quality tillable ground are still happening at breakneck speed right now. Caveat: I am not a...

Crazy thing is, even if prices come back by 10%, prices will still be higher than they were less than 2 years ago. Part of the delay in prices coming back is going to be the time it takes for landowners/sellers to get their thinking in line with reality on the actual market value of their...

This site is a good one to follow that keeps up with all of the (mostly) farmland auctions that are happening all over Iowa. https://twitter.com/theLandTalker Usually posts results within a day or two of the auction. Regularly shows eye-popping numbers. I'm not a farmer, and these numbers blow...

Definitely correct here. Lots of people who were approved for rec land purchase financing back in January probably couldn't even get approved now with the sharp rise in interest rates. Discretionary purchases are always the first to get cut back. There are still lots of buyers out there for...

I follow the central and southern Iowa county listings close on a daily basis, but didn't see that one on Landwatch, where was it listed? Was it almost 100% high quality tillable? Wouldn't be a crazy price in this market if it's mostly high quality dirt. Or do you think they were buying it with...

I'm not a long time Iowa resident, only my 2nd year hunting southern Iowa as a resident, so I don't have a long term perspective vs. what it was 5 or 10 years ago. I hunt more public than private, but in some areas I got pictures of more mature (5 yo+) bucks than last year and other areas at...

New Iowa resident and this was my first year to deer hunt in Iowa, though I've been hunting various states in the Midwest for 25 years. Definitely a weird year. Hunting southern Iowa, part permission on my neighbor's farm, and part on public land. Pictures from late Summer of some really nice...