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Another good statistic to know is how many landowner tag holders harvested bucks in the 2024 season with the floating status, versus the 22 or 23 seasons. Seemed like a lot of harvest this year Early MZ compared to others.

The above stats include the county specific doe tags. Many of these were bought to facilitate party hunting. If these hunters killed a buck it would have been registered by the host of the NR hunter. Will be interesting to see the 2024 stats.

I was going to type a very similar post to the one above. This shows how it will be so hard to make meaningful changes. Most of the people that are fighting for change the hardest have the least to worry about in their own situation. The analogy about if 5 acres should allow a landowner tags...

I have wondered about who the Iowa Landowner Freedom Coalition is also. Thier Lobbyist has spoken every time i have been up at the capital. They also supported the Depredation Bill.

This will be quite a change to the current NR draw system if this Bill moves forward. All the language about the landowner part of the draw and the 600 tags was struck “removed“.The Amendment takes 35% of the NR tag quota and makes those tags a random draw with no influence from Preference...

Very cool property. I know nothing at all about Ohio, It will be very tough to compete there with out baiting/ feeding on a scale to out do the neighbors. Think of this as defensive baiting you can choose to hunt near it or not. Managing the timber areas to create more bedding is also going to...

I try to learn from both sides the hard core full tillage guys and the regenerative/no till guys. There are successful guys on both sides. That being said the aggressive tillage type guys seem to be able to grow faster and take over more land when it comes available.

The other part of this that will affect future projects is it looks very likely that the federal work force is going to be considerably smaller during this Administration. I have family members and friends that work for the USDA in both FSA and NRCS. They have ended telework agreements and been...

These guys are from Albia but will do work in the Chariton area. Iowa Dirt Work\ Arron Kerr. 641-895-5447

Those look fair without seeing the trees. Still not exactly sure how your deal is structured. Normally the Trees are marked and then they bid on the Standing Timber = Stumpage. The fact that you are being paid on the different sort of the products make me think your Agreement is more of a grade...

I will put some guesses out. Just need to understand your deal with the loggers is stumpage price? This means all the harvest cost and trucking is on them. This would be a lower price than logs on the landing. Also need to know what scale they are using my guesses will be Scribner. Grade A .45...

Any practice that removes crop residue willremove nutrients, Baling corn stalks is one that comes to mind.I have seen tenants in the last year of a lease bale soybean stubble. Most of the time these are not issues but good to understand that they could exist. I have recently seen some reluctance...

In response to the above post,lime for us is always a landowner cost. I don’t like the termination every year thing but ours do include the new lease with the ones we are going to continue. The principal owner of the business I work for went thru the 80s lots of hard lessons learned.

if high fencing properties starts becoming the norm in the midwest, I'm out. I won't be part of that clown show. Alaska, here I come, lol. This isn't directed at the op, I'm talking guys putting up fences to prevent deer from leaving. . I am right there with the above post except I spent my...

Not much to add other than I have started to have tenants sign a release of all documents pertaining to the farm and tract # on the lease. Never was a problem until recently now FSA considers yield and acres under confidential to the producers. I also have the producers sign a release for a...

I dont have an issue with the fence funnels one way or another. What I would like to add is be very careful what they are made from and how they are constructe. This picture is from a friends farm this past season he left his electric fence up too long trying to save a small soybean plot for...

With 98% of iowa being private land there will have to be some differences In the management strategies of Public vs private. I would be in favor of iowa going to one buck. Continue party hunting as is but if someone want to have their only buck tag for the year filled by someone else that’s ok...

It was quite the surprise that Rozenboom voted the way he did. Good to see that he is paying attention to the needs of the resource. Was a great mix of people attending who all did great given the 1 min time limit to speak.

My take on his comments yesterday were he is confusing certain symptons and causes of EHD and CWD. I know that Phil the lobbyist had done a great job trying to educate him ahead of the meeting and when presented with this,switched to complaining that the deer are breaking into his silage bags...

Was an interesting day for sure. Great turn out of people to speak in opposition to both Bills. Unfortunately both Bills made it out of the SubCommittee. The depredation bill will be harder to stop it has full Farm Bureau support and Rep Collins stopped us pretty quick in our comment time. On...