What does your state do to keep them at bay? Our state went with no hunting for hogs on the WMA's and NWR's for a few years. Now, consider we have had hogs on many of those areas for almost 100 years. You can only imagine how much the population can increase over four or five years of basically no pubic hunting. One of my properties backs up to one of these areas - and the hogs have literally overwhelmed me and the property - to the point I am considering giving up all management efforts over there. Before the adjacent property became a hog refuge - that land of mine was the best I had.
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What does your state do to keep them at bay? Our state went with no hunting for hogs on the WMA's and NWR's for a few years. Now, consider we have had hogs on many of those areas for almost 100 years. You can only imagine how much the population can increase over four or five years of basically no pubic hunting. One of my properties backs up to one of these areas - and the hogs have literally overwhelmed me and the property - to the point I am considering giving up all management efforts over there. Before the adjacent property became a hog refuge - that land of mine was the best I had.
ksgobbler
5 year old buck +
They helicopter gun them and get 90+% landowner cooperation. They’ll go several miles into Oklahoma after them. They’ve totally eradicated a couple populations. We are one of the few states winning the battle and other states are looking at our model.
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.kansas.com/sports/outdoors/article142002374.html
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.kansas.com/sports/outdoors/article142002374.html
4wanderingeyes
5 year old buck +
Yikes!
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
We can't get much done here - rain every day. If it's not pouring, it's an easy, steady rain. Good for the water table .......... stinks for food plot work, & other chores at camp. They say we may get a few days without rain next week. We're stuck in monsoon season.
S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
I'm hoping to spray most of my plots this weekend in preparation for soybean and sugar beet planting.
scott44
5 year old buck +
I got our sorghum mix plots planted yesterday a mix of E-wheat, sorghum, millets, sunflowers, soys, peas a little of everything.
Not enough to do a throw and mow/roll so I lightly disced it and cultipacked it. It's raining now so I timed it right for once.
Before
After
Not enough to do a throw and mow/roll so I lightly disced it and cultipacked it. It's raining now so I timed it right for once.
Before
After
Knehrke
5 year old buck +
The dandelions in my campsite are growing quite well :).
Rain all weekend, but I finished the workweek with several hours last night using the forest clearing saw in our newest orchard. Two years ago, the site was covered prior to its conversion to an orchard with prickly ash, which is a native shrub/small tree, not an actual ash, and isn't susceptible to the borer. But we have enough of it on the property and it thickets like crazy. I left a perimeter border of 3-8' high prickly ash so the deer can have some privacy and mowed the inner part down to plant six Franklin and a few crabs. Now every year I need to re-cut all of the prickly ash stems that shoot up between my cages. Easy-peasy with the Husky FR345,
Next up is to spray gly around tubes. That's going to require some dry weather and more time, given the number of tubes that I need to treat. I keep telling myself that it will all be worth it in a few years as the mice and the deer and the voles and the bugs and the drought and the invasives take their toll...serenity now...
Rain all weekend, but I finished the workweek with several hours last night using the forest clearing saw in our newest orchard. Two years ago, the site was covered prior to its conversion to an orchard with prickly ash, which is a native shrub/small tree, not an actual ash, and isn't susceptible to the borer. But we have enough of it on the property and it thickets like crazy. I left a perimeter border of 3-8' high prickly ash so the deer can have some privacy and mowed the inner part down to plant six Franklin and a few crabs. Now every year I need to re-cut all of the prickly ash stems that shoot up between my cages. Easy-peasy with the Husky FR345,
Next up is to spray gly around tubes. That's going to require some dry weather and more time, given the number of tubes that I need to treat. I keep telling myself that it will all be worth it in a few years as the mice and the deer and the voles and the bugs and the drought and the invasives take their toll...serenity now...
Tree Spud
5 year old buck +
Taking a break ...
The only easy day around here was yesterday .... as Warren Zevon said ... I'll sleep when I am dead!
Unfortunately, helicopter gunning is not an option in much of our heavily forested and mountainous state.
Today, I am going to bush hog my access trails on the upper ground on my place. Tuesday, I am going to work on removing logs and other drift from the trails on my lower ground. Wednsday, more of the same. Thursday, I am going to spray gly on some areas of sedge that have established since floodwaters receded, friday i am going to reseed one five acre eagleseed bean field destroyed by hogs, and Saturday I am going to start spraying invasive alligator weed in one of my duck holes.
Friday I'll head up to spray my 2 acre skinny plot with gly/2,4-d, and yes I'll be using AMS. :) I'll also spread half the P&K requirement for my Fall plot this weekend, as well as maybe another round of pelleted lime. I got 750LBS/acre last time, and need to do the same again. I figure the sooner the better.
trampledbyturtles
5 year old buck +
Checking in a little late, but better late than never I guess.
Phase 4 of the planting season is complete
Got the 150ft hybrid willow screen in.
Advise anyone planning to do the same to just go ahead an get the planting tool from John. Made planting prep a breeze. Well made an sturdy, should last a life time.
Was able to do the site prep, planting plus watering an spray deer repelant in around 2 an a half hours by myself. Was hustling though to make it to the greenhouse before they closed.
Also found a little extra time to water the east orchards an attach tree tags to the cages.
Only 2 major plantings left for the season with a few miscellaneous side projects.
Spring is going by way to fast with the extended winter we had.
Phase 4 of the planting season is complete
Got the 150ft hybrid willow screen in.
Advise anyone planning to do the same to just go ahead an get the planting tool from John. Made planting prep a breeze. Well made an sturdy, should last a life time.
Was able to do the site prep, planting plus watering an spray deer repelant in around 2 an a half hours by myself. Was hustling though to make it to the greenhouse before they closed.
Also found a little extra time to water the east orchards an attach tree tags to the cages.
Only 2 major plantings left for the season with a few miscellaneous side projects.
Spring is going by way to fast with the extended winter we had.
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mjones101604
Yearling... With promise
Just got done with what I hope will be a be new hot spot. Just not sure what to plant yet
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Finally got back in the woods today. Not doing bad just sprayed today. In August I’m going to over seed rye and oats.
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