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re: Duck population IF a full season was cancelled
Posted on 12/3/17 at 9:40 pm to DuckSausage
Posted on 12/3/17 at 9:40 pm to DuckSausage
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Just curious... what was/is the reason behind changing to no till farming?
I'm sure soil is helped, but the biggest reason for no til is the machinery got better to where they can now til and plant in the same pass. Letting the cut stems sit over the winter allows them to rot and then in the spring they can come back and til it under and plant all in one run.
As said, if you want better hunting you gotta go elsewhere. Go to Canada early on and you can smash the ducks as good as anyone's wet dream. The ducks just don't all go down the Mississippi anymore.
Something not said yet, is a huge reason for many ducks not flying south is water cooled factories and power plants. Tons of water is kept open by through hard freezes all around the midwest. If you have open water, the ducks will stay around until they absolutely can't find food which takes a lot of snow or ice compared to just frozen water. Thats why local geese are such a huge problem now, they have everything they need to never migrate in either direction.
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Posted on 12/3/17 at 9:51 pm to baldona
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I'm sure soil is helped, but the biggest reason for no til is the machinery got better to where they can now til and plant in the same pass. Letting the cut stems sit over the winter allows them to rot and then in the spring they can come back and til it under and plant all in one run.
Except they aren't tilling. Thus the name "no till".
Posted on 12/3/17 at 10:13 pm to baldona
If by tilling you mean cutting a very narrow groovein front of the planter, then yes. There is no "till" in "no-till" though in a conventional sense.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 10:33 am to baldona
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the ducks will stay around until they absolutely can't find food which takes a lot of snow or ice compared to just frozen water.
Mallards are also really good about following the freeze line. Even though they will stick around even during hard freezes and snow cover if there is open water to roost on, they will push ahead of the freeze line when forced to and then once it warms up, they will follow it right back up. That's why you sometimes get pretty wild movements on radio tracked birds from roosting locations to feeding sites during big storms.
I am not sure ducks did this back in the day but after years and years of ducks following this blueprint, they have certainly imprinted to this new migration pattern.
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