Baitingseems to havedifferent meenings to different states. In NC for example only crops can be left alone or harvested with normal AG practices. No manipulation of crops.
In Soth Carolina you can leave the crop in the field or manipulate crops by mowing, discing, burning, even combine and shoot out on the ground.
Basically anything you want to do just as long as the crop does not leave the field and come back.
for the ducks i haveimpoundments that are planted in corn and then flooded in the late fall when mature. works great, also after the rice is picked in October we re-flood those areas as well