SW Minnesota management ?
10-18-2004 | 12:52 PM
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Typical Buck
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From: Southwest Minnesota
SW Minnesota management ?
I hunt on a 150 acre stretch of CREP with a small river running on the southern edge of it.
Not much for thick woods, but there is a little. Its mostly native grasses, flowers & small trees. These grasses are 6 to 7 feet tall an pretty thick. The deer and Turkey winter around 4 miles to the east.
With the CREP program your not allowed to plant a food plot!
What would anyone suggest for feeding deer & Turkeys?
Deer feeders (what food)?
How good are the natural foods?
Will the deer & Turkeys winter here if they had food all winter? Or do they keep there same wintering spot regardless?
Its really hard to pattern deer here because they seem to just roam in the tall grass. And they dont always bed in the same spot. Sometimes its in the woods but mostly its in the grass.
Thanks for any help,
Bird,
Not much for thick woods, but there is a little. Its mostly native grasses, flowers & small trees. These grasses are 6 to 7 feet tall an pretty thick. The deer and Turkey winter around 4 miles to the east.
With the CREP program your not allowed to plant a food plot!
What would anyone suggest for feeding deer & Turkeys?
Deer feeders (what food)?
How good are the natural foods?
Will the deer & Turkeys winter here if they had food all winter? Or do they keep there same wintering spot regardless?
Its really hard to pattern deer here because they seem to just roam in the tall grass. And they dont always bed in the same spot. Sometimes its in the woods but mostly its in the grass.
Thanks for any help,
Bird,
10-18-2004 | 05:12 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: SouthWest OH, Remington Country.
RE: SW Minnesota management ?
check out your state dnr conservationist they can tell you what to feed them, but why is a food plot illgal, how about natural crops? I know this...........your state is ranked #2 in the boone&crocket club for harvesting a trophy deer, i am jealous!![:@] In ohio we are # 8 out of 10! I would worry about how i am going to drag that monster out of the woods!
10-18-2004 | 05:18 PM
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Typical Buck
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From: Southwest Minnesota
RE: SW Minnesota management ?
CREP is a conservation program that MN came up with to help keep the rivers clean.
Farmers get paid by the state so much an acre to get involved in this program. The state plants trees & grasses the farmer just has to take care of it. This is a 90 year program. I don't know why but this program won't allow us to plant a food plot. They say there is sufficiant food already!
This is my father inlaws land!
This isn't that much land considering. I'm trying to figure out the best way to keep the deer on our land so they don't wander off and get shot my the neighbors slug hunting army!!!
Farmers get paid by the state so much an acre to get involved in this program. The state plants trees & grasses the farmer just has to take care of it. This is a 90 year program. I don't know why but this program won't allow us to plant a food plot. They say there is sufficiant food already!
This is my father inlaws land!
This isn't that much land considering. I'm trying to figure out the best way to keep the deer on our land so they don't wander off and get shot my the neighbors slug hunting army!!!
