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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tymurrey" data-source="post: 479907" data-attributes="member: 859"><p>The thing I don't like about this program and most of the other programs is they only apply to cropland and not enhancing all habitat. I am biased with that i'm sure. I'll use my example. I have a 20 acre chunk of pasture that i fenced off to plant trees on and i put a couple food plots in. It was marginal pasture, lots of short grass prairie so not even worth haying really and not great cover throughout the year. I could get cost share to plant the trees but nothing to offset the cost of losing the pasture and not the same amount of cost share if it was cropland. By planting trees i lose out on guaranteed income on land that i'm paying taxes on if i would have left it in grazing land along with the maintenance, time, and cost to maintain the trees. I have about 15 of those 20 acres that I wanted to put into native tall grass prairie for winter cover and nesting cover. I could get cost share on seed but thats it. Programs like this provide continued support if it were cropland to help offset the lost income and expenses to maintain. There is no way to break even financially or even come close by planting habitat anymore and if i decide to eat the cost i'm treated like an evil a-hole by many on sites like this because i'm a landowner who might not let others hunt. At this point my plan is to break it up, maybe break up some more of the pasture ground, collect crop rent or plant oats and hay it for a few years and maybe put into habitat then or say screw take the rent money and use it to hunt out of state.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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