South Dakota Pheasant Report: How's it looking?

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South Dakota Pheasant Report: How's it looking?

Postby UnaStamus on Mon Sep 12, 2016 12:21 pm

I hunt in Beadle County and northern Sanborn. We base out of Huron, SD and most of our land in private. Numbers obviously have been atrocious for the past 7-8 years. Any changes? Are the numbers doing any better this year?
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Re: South Dakota Pheasant Report: How's it looking?

Postby JJ on Mon Sep 12, 2016 12:46 pm

https://gfp.sd.gov/hunting/small-game/p ... tlook.aspx

https://gfp.sd.gov/hunting/docs/PBR2016.pdf

http://www.capjournal.com/news/sd-pheas ... 569a9.html

Pheasant numbers were down 20 percent in a key annual population survey, South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department officials announced Wednesday.

The 2016 roadside brood survey conducted from July 25 to Aug. 15 found a statewide pheasant per mile index of about 3 birds per mile down from the 2015 number of 3.83. Still, the 2016 survey’s PPM index was twice as high as the 2013 survey and a little higher than the 2014 index of 2.77 pheasants per mile


I wouldn't expect much of a change. Turning all the marginal pastureland into tillage, and almost zero re-enrollment of CRP acres, the long term outlook is not good for SD.
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Re: South Dakota Pheasant Report: How's it looking?

Postby yukonjasper on Mon Sep 12, 2016 1:13 pm

Is Ethanol production still driving corn prices?
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Re: South Dakota Pheasant Report: How's it looking?

Postby JJ on Mon Sep 12, 2016 1:27 pm

yukonjasper wrote:Is Ethanol production still driving corn prices?


Always will to some extent, but the cash price has stabilized over the last couple years.

The days of $7-8/bushel have passed. Current spot price is $3.40/bushel.

South Dakota has seen a dramatic reduction in CRP acres as old contracts have expired, very little enrollment has occurred:
http://www.capjournal.com/news/sd-sees- ... 1b5ae.html
South Dakota landowners were able to enroll a grand total of 101 new acres of land into the Conservation Reserve Program this year

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He said South Dakota could lose as much as 200,000 more CRP acres over the next two years. Right now, there are about 954,000 acres in CRP in South Dakota, Runia said, a far cry from 2007’s total, he said.

“We’re on pace to have half the CRP acres that we did in 2007,” Runia said.


http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/opinio ... f27a1.html
There was a span of about 15 years when CRP exceeded 1.4 million acres and yet pheasants per mile remained below six. Then we had about eight years when the pheasants per mile reached six or higher, even as CRP acres were declining.
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Re: South Dakota Pheasant Report: How's it looking?

Postby LarryP on Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:54 pm

Most birds on public land are released by the state
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