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ChangesIowa pheasant hunting is well known throughout the upland bird hunter community and deservedly so in spite of recent laminations by magazine article writers about the demise of CRP land in tall grass. What many must be reminded of is that there were good pheasant hunts before there was CRP. At this point another set of pundits enter into the fray stating that before CRP the farming practices left more wildlife areas and that made Iowa pheasant hunts what they were before CRP. Undoubtedly so we must agree. However, in spite of the bulldozer land clearing another impact has been the large corporation farm, especially that within the hog industry and the farming practices that type of operation employs with the secondary effect of enhancing upland bird habitat. The Iowa corporate hog farm focuses its effort on hog production in the form of interior to a barn hog rearing and large grain crop fields. These corporations do not forage their cut crops with cattle and do not expend fuel and machine hours on fall crop stubble plowing. Both of these practices enhance pheasant populations. These same Iowa corporate hog farms do not hay lesser crop land and do not graze waterways leaving cover habitat further enhancing Iowa's pheasant hunting. This corporate farm is a specialist farm unlike the small farmer that diversifies to use every possible land resource he may have. Such diversification is often at the expense of pheasant habitat.
Throughout this website many more Iowa pheasant hunter testimonials will be presented in addition to what is in the galleries. Each testimonial presents a varying viewpoint about what that hunters finds most important about the hunts he has had, pheasant hunting and more. Reading several will allow of the development of questions. Write those questions down and give us a call to discuss the answers.
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