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Looks like committee approved the new farm unit requirement 21-0 today. However, it’s amended lessening the acreage requirement to 20 ac purchased after 01/11/2027. It appears there’s a grandfather clause in here for current landowners. I don’t quite get the 2027 date but it’s in there.

CRP has been hiding beneath the “habitat”, “conservation”, “wildlife benefits” labels for years. It’s an inflated program that does little of the above. Looks good on paper though. As I said above I was in crp for 20 years and got out. Absolute joke with clueless government officials at fsa...

I’ll be in the minority here. When I first learned of the crp program many years ago I couldn’t believe the Govt would pay yearly not to plant crops claiming erosion control, building soil carbon and so on. I was in the program for 20 years and saw little benefit. Had the occasional covey of...

What’s the acorn cruncher. I never heard of it. Lol. Deer eating acorns. ???

No no. I got the flex seal canoe A canoe in a kiddy pool that will not sink.

Dude. You’re all over the place.. I mentioned ag ownership because the average age of Iowa’s farmers is based only on ag land; without calculating the avg age of the rec owner. That’s all.

You’re combining rec farm and ag ownership. Can’t do it. . The average age in Iowa of today’s farmer is 57 according to Farm Bureau. ISU has the age a bit higher. But, ISU does not separate rec farm owners and ag farm ownership. Two different markets. Do you want to farm or hunt? 92%...

Another ramble with zero facts, calling people ignorant and answering nobody’s questions.

The current system of 2 acres is abused. It needs fixed. How much property do you own, what do you do? You say life has treated you well. What’s that mean. You refer to stats with no reference and speak in generalities . Of course older folks own more land. As one lives they tend to make...

How many times you gonna say the same thing. Be a lobbyist, visit the state capitol, we get your position. Horse meet stick.

Trump has done more good for this country in 6 weeks than Biden, Obama and the Clintons did in their entire careers. Talk about a bunch of career politicians who became wealthy off of the democratic voter with blinders on. Those three families are the real crime families. I guarantee.

They sprung nothing. The mineral deal was proposed several days ago. What escalated the meeting is Trump refused to protect Ukraine if Russia invaded in the future. Smart imo. If Russia invades, we put American troops on the ground, you have the beginning of WWIII. Zelenskyy will come...

FWIW I use a Redneck 750 lb gravity feeder. No issues.

Agree. Fuzzy math qdm. Iowa has 35 million acres of land with only 2.8 million forested. As Skip always points out that’s only 8% of the total acreage. Most Iowa land isn’t optimum whitetail country. It goes without saying many don’t report their harvests. That 5000 buck number is higher.

Not that hard. Eliminate the tenant LOT. DNR personnel look up a parcel with the applicants name. That’s it. Parcel must show adequate acreage and the name of the person receiving LOT. It’s a few minutes on the county assessors website. Done. If they’re are two names on a parcel they ask...

No. They are Iowans supporting Iowa hunting, hunters, and conservation efforts. Friends of Iowa were NRLOs led by a wealthy landowner from Texas. I believe his handle was OrionWhitetails back in the day.

Booneriver, You can always look back and say I should have bought land then or I wish prices were much less. In 2002 when I bought my first piece for 750\ac i didn’t complain about my neighbor who bought a farm for 300/ac in 1992. Last year I bought a piece for 5700/ac, I didn’t call it class...

Cos havnt stopped pursuing this. Actually it’s not hard to prove. Even if a guy has split residency he cant have his primary income generated in another state, pay taxes in another state, have mail delivery most of the year in another state etc. This is about an hour or two of work, a...

SF 179 died last year and it will this year. Do you read anyone’s posts. NRs have gained nothing, I used to be one.

How are we increasing NR harvest? NR allocation is still at 6000, the bill that was reserving 600 nrlo tags has been amended removing that item, nr party hunting was eliminated by the dnr and the bill suggesting tags at half price for nr family members is slow walking. It died last year and...