Outlawing baiting deer in NC ?
10-22-2004 | 09:16 AM
#11
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RE: Outlawing baiting deer in NC ?
ORIGINAL: rwilson
Those #'s are impressive but to the guy who plants 75 ac. or so, shells it, and sells it ALL in 50# bags for deer feeding, the impact on him would be significant, at least forcing him to find another market. He's also getting
$4.00/bag for 50#(he must pay for the bag and extra handling) vs. what...
$2.50-$3.00 for 56#. Prob. a different situation in the corn belt where the fields are hundreds of ac. and handling such a volume of corn would not permit the handling required.
Those #'s are impressive but to the guy who plants 75 ac. or so, shells it, and sells it ALL in 50# bags for deer feeding, the impact on him would be significant, at least forcing him to find another market. He's also getting
$4.00/bag for 50#(he must pay for the bag and extra handling) vs. what...
$2.50-$3.00 for 56#. Prob. a different situation in the corn belt where the fields are hundreds of ac. and handling such a volume of corn would not permit the handling required.
By the time the farmer makes a payment on the $250,000 combine, payment on the storage bin, pays for fuel, chemicals, fertilizer, and property taxes. He's made about $2-3.00/hour if he is lucky. But he can grow a lot of food for his family and eat better than most of us.
10-22-2004 | 10:28 AM
#12
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RE: Outlawing baiting deer in NC ?
Hey, I didn't say he was getting rich doing it. I just said that if baiting was outlawed things would be different. He'd prob. be in the same boat if he sold it to Perdue for $2.65/bu.
10-22-2004 | 10:36 PM
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RE: Outlawing baiting deer in NC ?
I hunt in Rockingham County, NC and in Randolph County, NC. I haven't heard of any ban or baiting in our state and would hate to see them come to that. For one thing, I don't think that would ever pass considering everyone I know that hunts does it over some kind of bait or food plot.
