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re: The golden years for ducks are gone....
Posted on 1/6/18 at 9:13 am to Specklebelly
Posted on 1/6/18 at 9:13 am to Specklebelly
You are right about a lot but between Acadia, Vermillion Jeff Davis, and Evangeline and st Landry there are around 265,00 acres of rice
There are probably 180,000 acres of crawfish in the whole state
So you have over 100,000 acres of stubble at least in those 5 parishes
It rains most of the winter so they usually stay pretty flooded even if guys don’t stop them up to buffalo
And the new conservation programs encourage stopping up fields in the winter
That’s a lot of good habitat and that doesn’t include the marshes, set a side fields or Cameron parish
There are probably 180,000 acres of crawfish in the whole state
So you have over 100,000 acres of stubble at least in those 5 parishes
It rains most of the winter so they usually stay pretty flooded even if guys don’t stop them up to buffalo
And the new conservation programs encourage stopping up fields in the winter
That’s a lot of good habitat and that doesn’t include the marshes, set a side fields or Cameron parish
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Posted on 1/6/18 at 11:50 am to Midtiger farm
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2016 almost half the rice acreage was followed by crawfish in Acadia parish. I can take you to the surronding area that I hunt and 90% of the flooded fields are either crawfish or duck blinds. Most farmers don’t stop up and hold water anymore because first chance they get they are in the fields working ground. They like it dry as possible, at least the farmers I associate with.
As for the conservation programs like DU is putting out are only for certain watersheds and the farmers are signing up the crawfish acres that are in the applied area because they are flooded anyways so there’s no extra cost to the farmer/landowner. Some fields are buffaloed, but only when they are badly rutted during harvest and most of the time ditches are immediately made and the water is cut loose. I think that attributes for the decline of ducks in my general area. There’s just no big tracts of open flooded fields to rest in. When a new push of birds come in, we kill them pretty good but you better get them that day cause they don’t stay around like they use to.
2016 almost half the rice acreage was followed by crawfish in Acadia parish. I can take you to the surronding area that I hunt and 90% of the flooded fields are either crawfish or duck blinds. Most farmers don’t stop up and hold water anymore because first chance they get they are in the fields working ground. They like it dry as possible, at least the farmers I associate with.
As for the conservation programs like DU is putting out are only for certain watersheds and the farmers are signing up the crawfish acres that are in the applied area because they are flooded anyways so there’s no extra cost to the farmer/landowner. Some fields are buffaloed, but only when they are badly rutted during harvest and most of the time ditches are immediately made and the water is cut loose. I think that attributes for the decline of ducks in my general area. There’s just no big tracts of open flooded fields to rest in. When a new push of birds come in, we kill them pretty good but you better get them that day cause they don’t stay around like they use to.
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