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Yea that body to the south of us is there every year and stays all season. That area is a sanctuary
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We hunt in the holmwood/bell city area. We have video footage from seasons past when October through the end of January there were bodies of geese everywhere...the last five or so years have been on that downward progression some others have discussed previously. Either way, this drought has completely dried out our marsh for the last two seasons and all of our fields are under cattle lease and have been for the last decade so I know about the lack of food in the area...haven't hunted in two years.
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not sure where he hunts I havnt been there.
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I think a lot of people are struggling right now.....I haven't heard from anyone on the interwebs about sabine, but we went there opening day and killed 2! That's right 2. We ALWAYS limit out opening day there. On the kinder lease we have been killing some ducks, not many. The guy south of us is doing a lot better, probably averaging about 15-20/hunt, while we are averaging 5-6/hunt.
What has been pitiful and I think most will agree is the speck hunting. Well up until this week anyway. There just haven't been that many specks. We were fortunate to kill 5 on thursday and 3 on Friday, but I count it as that. Just not seeing the bodies like I saw last year. Now the last 3 days Snows have been filtering in like crazy! This is subject to change very soon. |
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Good question Sulphite, hope someone answers. You just don't see the rice fields like you used to, without them, the birds dont have a reason to come and stay.
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Interesting points you're making. Seems the guberment will be scaling back their subsidies to domestic rice farmers this coming year. Most can't make ends meet without the gov. help. Most around here are turning to sugar cane and to some extent soybeans. There are many water wells that are sanding up in our area from over-use because of the drought and rice pond crawfishing. Runs around $50-70,000 to dig a deeper well using 6-8" pipe. Harder times are ahead for our local rice farmers. Too bad ducks and doves don't eat sugarcane....the face of agriculture is slowly changing in South La.
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I don't know what the answer is, but there are a lot of different factors that are driving grain farmers into the ground. Its not that you can't make a good living by working the soil, I think our culture as a nation and the mindset of the youth these days is one reason why younguns don't want to get into the business of farming.
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Had never been on a "farm" until I came down here. Since living here, I took an internship with the louisiana environmental research center, worked with plants every day. Farmers need help. But in 2008, agriculture and .its practices accounted for 1% of the federal budget. Farmers are going to be needed forever in America, we feed the world. ny farmers here? Would like to help out this summer and gain hands on knowledge. |
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They aren't making anymore dirt Regards, |
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On a good note, they are putting new infrastructure in place, particularly Lacassine. There is supposed to be a new grain loading facility built there and should be under contract sometime this coming year. The land in the sweetlake/bell city/holmwood area could end up having a whole new influx of interest. Regarding sugar cane, I'm not so sure that it will take off in SW La as some might think. If you simply observe the quality of cane that comes out of Iberia, St. Martin and St. Mary parishes against what comes out of SWLa, there is no comparison.
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The mill at laccassine has not grinded n 3 yrs and the columbians r trying to renegotiate their interest rate with the state . IMO, they are losing their azzes and will never make a profit. Bob Odom should b n Angola for that deal.
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You are exactly right...I also have good reason to believe that that sugar cane farming outfit by those columbians isn't exactly on the up-and-up...if ya know what I mean. There are definitely some politics involved there.
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It is ashame we have to wait on ships and barges to deliver alot of the things we consume in the good ol' US of A, just hope we never have to wait on a ship or barge to deliver us our food!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! People need to quit complaining about govt. subsidies, and be thankful, because without them, they would be paying way more in the grocery store than they are now. Back to the original post, over here to the east were we have plenty rice fields, we have plenty ducks, best it has been in several years. I,m assuming marshes may be dry or too salty? |
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