Preparing a legal dove field?

[Hayes]

What are the legalities (sp?) ? can i cut it under 11 days before and broadcast wheat on that day and be legal? Up until the 10 day can I put anyhting out as long as a cut it under 10 days before the hunt?

[Wingman]

"Completely removed" is the key phrase here.

Title 50, Part 20 of the Code of Federal Regulations at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/wais ... 20_99.html

Dove Field Preparation and Hunting Regulations in Mississippi: http://www.mdwfp.com/Level1/wildlife.as ... bject=Dove

Just remember the bag limit has now changed to 12 birds daily. You will see the 15-bird bag limit referenced in the above link.

[Hayes]

So is cutting it under the broadcasting wheat to grow considered a normal
farming practice.

[JaMak84]

Broadcasting wheat in August is not a normal agricultural practice, but then again neither is mowing down sunflowers. If I were you, I'd find a local GW and ask them what they would let you get by with.

[Wingman]

So is cutting it under the broadcasting wheat to grow considered a normal
farming practice.

You still haven't told us what "it" is. My only advice would be to not put any "it" out there in the first place.

[Hayes]

Okay about 2 weeks ago we broke up a field and put wheat and chops out there, on the 20 or 21 can i go out and cut my field under (hopefully removing teh chops they should be gone by then anyway) and just simply broadcast the wheat after I turn it under for the last time before the ten day rule?

[DUCKAHOLIC]

If the wheat has sprouted, you can not go disk it up and replant it...........

[angelo]

I think you can not put out chops at all. They can find some chops if they want to.

[Wingman]

You might want to call the Jackson office, but in my opinion that field is no good for this year.

[tunica]

A normal agricultural planting is a planting undertaken for the purpose of producing or gathering a crop. Normal plantings do not involve the placement of grain in piles or other concentrations. Plantings must follow
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service recommendations. Relevant factors include recommended planting dates, proper seed distribution, seed bed preparation, application rate, and seed
viability.

[Seymore]

So if I broadcast wheat on a gravel road at my hunting camp, am I legal?? I'll run a box scraper over it.

Sorry, I'm bored and taking Lortab and Soma. Pulled a nerve through the scar tissue in my lower back and had a mylegram yesterday. Can't go back to work 'til tomorrow.

The best dove hunt I ever had was around a catfish pond where they used those bags of minerals in the pond and some spilled around the pond. A completely legal agricultural practice. Just about like hunting over rock salt.

[Hayes]

I thought it just had to be completely removed? So if you put chops out the field is no good? I must be badly off what my interpretation was. I thought it was saying that any bait must be removed 10 days before season. Chops would be bait so if its removed i thought it would be legal.

I do not want to be illegal and my intentions have never been to be illegal. I just want it to be right.

[BAY KINGFISHER]

due to the lack of rain your wheat did not sprout out how you wanted, real sporadic, right? so you had to replant to assure a good stand of winter wheat for the fall plot....just dont re-plant to close to season, or plant them in strips so your never re-planting....farmers re-plant all the time....its a normal ag practice, maybe wild hogs ate up all your top sown wheat, then a farmer would re-plant right?

if the chops, sunflowers etc are gone 10 days in advance your legal, just not suppose to plant same ground twice.....

[Hayes]

thats how i understood it also but i want to make sure. I jsut do not want my guest who think they are hunting legal and me also to get busted and not even know we were illegal

[duckkiller]

word to the wise, I would take wingmans advice and be done with it