Discing of row crop feilds to be flooded for hunting

[hillhunter]

I can see both side's but feel that if the farmer is going to take money for it as a duck lease he should leave something besides mud.With that being said my buddy has a place where we had really good hunting over mud 1yr.

I agree 100%. I think you might even see a decrease in the number of duck leases in MS due to this. They will be more worried about making a crop than that duck money.

[driveby]

@#$%^&**&*^%$#@!!!!!!!!! I just got off the phone with our farmer. He's not wanting me to stop up any holes tomorrow because he's planning on going in, turning everything under, and rowing this coming week.

[hillhunter]

That sucks dude...

[levi127]

@#$%^&**&*^%$#@!!!!!!!!! I just got off the phone with our farmer. He's not wanting me to stop up any holes tomorrow because he's planning on going in, turning everything under, and rowing this coming week.

They did this last week with us. Leaving around 2 acres of standing rice in a good 100 acre field of rice. Cut it burned and turned under. Now they are flooding it on Sunday.

[JMitch]

Buy the land then you can do what you want to with it

[rig trash32]

Our farmer disc the ground up on our rice fields every year. I would like for him to leave some stubble. But it does not seem to stop them form coming to it to feed. One of the best duck hunter/ farmers I know told me the other day that soybeans is the worst crop for ducks there is. He said that in 3 to 5 days the soybean is gone. Due to swelling and falling apart. Rice and corn it top dawg he says. This man had 2 shoe boxes of bands in his house when it burned down. I like the fact of the grain being readily available for them and it cant be bad, but discing it in does not seem to bother our place. It looks like another dry year and if you have water I think you will kill em this year. Hope everyone smashes them this year. Good luck

[chs36]

listen here men... who ever the farmer is.. he will leave you how ever much crop you want to pay for. do you expect him to loose profit so you can shoot a duck ?? pay the man.... kill ducks.. period

[slayem]

And they dont charge "that" much to leave an acre or two standing. Sometimes you can run across a dumb farmer and not know how many feet is in 2 acres. Once we wanted 2 acres left standing, ended up gettin 4 for the price of 2!

[JaMak84]

And they dont charge "that" much to leave an acre or two standing. Sometimes you can run across a dumb farmer and not know how many feet is in 2 acres. Once we wanted 2 acres left standing, ended up gettin 4 for the price of 2!

Yield monitors are a great tool. You sure you paid for 2 acres and got 4 or did you pay for 2 acres that covered the cost of a low yeild on 6 acres and he pocketed the extra and left four standing so you'd feel all warm and fuzzy inside? He may not be as dumb as you think

[hillhunter]

And they dont charge "that" much to leave an acre or two standing. Sometimes you can run across a dumb farmer and not know how many feet is in 2 acres. Once we wanted 2 acres left standing, ended up gettin 4 for the price of 2!

Don't confuse dumb with generous. Just sayin.

[ransco33]

No, I'll have to back him on this situation. The farmer INSISTED that since an acre was 200'x200', we should flag off an area 400'x400' to get 2 acres. We even ran all the numbers with him on his yield and what he was getting for the beans, etc and paid the man the price he asked. Now, maybe he was being generous, maybe he was having a bad day with his math, who knows? But we did get 4 acres of beans for the market price of 2 acres. Not that it helped much that year anyway. It was probably one of the worst years we had, not being able to kill birds. They just hated that field until the last 2 weeks of the season.

But JaMak, with this guy, you may just be onto something now that I think about it. That was the last year we leased a field from him. Something just didn't seem right in dealing with him.

[digger]

I don't think their talking about leaving any crop's just not cutting under the stubble.I don't care how much it put's them ahead come spring by cutting it under if their(farmer) gonna take money for lease on a duck hole then ought not be a mudhole.If I were to pay several thousand $ for a lease and showed up to field that was cut under I would not be happy.

[chs36]

And they dont charge "that" much to leave an acre or two standing. Sometimes you can run across a dumb farmer and not know how many feet is in 2 acres. Once we wanted 2 acres left standing, ended up gettin 4 for the price of 2!

Don't confuse dumb with generous. Just sayin.

exactly. be thankful

[JDgator]

Well, I just got back from our lease. Farmer is discing EVERYTHING. It sticks when you have a bunch of fields without a drop of food. On top of that, he is sub-soiling a large area for beans next year. Seems like we don't matter and our money doesn't count...

[Wingman]

I would have it spelled out specifically in my lease exactly what you want or don't want. Get all that junk ironed out in the spring, not 2 weeks prior to season. If he says he's not gonna till it, then you'll have a contract that says that. If he is planning on tilling it, you'll know up front.