re: Planting Millet for Ducks

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Kinda off topic but still somewhat to the point, I know some guys up in Monroe that leased a rice field but it was that year (maybe about 4-5 years back) when it rained like crazy during Sept/Oct and the farmer could not get in the field to cut it. The farmer wrote it off and the guys had a field of un-cut rice which was basically off limits since the field did not meet standard ag practice of having to be harvested to be legal. They got all kind of answers on the legality but the overall take was that if you have a field of uncut crop and if one speck of rice hits the water outside of a natural cause, it is a violation. Of course, thousands of birds sat in that field all year.

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How is that outside normal ag practice? If the farmer planted it with every intention of harvest, why as the hunter do you even care when and if he does? That doesn't make any sense to me? You could easily just play dumb, and any good lawyer would get you out of that in a heart beat. Some crops can have a 2 month swing easily. I'd also be curious as to know if the farmer literally can't harvest, what are you as the hunter doing wrong? I don't see how the state could tell you you can't harvest game because the farmer can't harvest their crop.

The main intent of laws like this are so that jokers don't take a bunch of corn or other seed, and just throw it around using the excuse "I was tryin to farm sir". I'm not sure if I've ever heard of someone getting in trouble for hunting over a crop planted and intended to be harvested by a farm.