October 2007 page 2 Updates

4 October

Land

This fall was been warm with good rains. Fall planting of wheat and alfalfa has done well. Wheat will pull the deer from the bean fields. Just a note for the non-residents that are not familiar with agriculture in the midwest. Another new lease for 07 in NC KS.

An existing Missouri lease that was planted to native grass. In this particular region of the state the crp will benefit the deer and turkey hunting.

Deer

While renewing an old lease that has been in the club for 10 plus years 3 deer walked across the landowner's back yard and we were lucky to have a camera within reach. The landowner said we need to harvest more doe. The two farms he was referring to were Atchison Missouri, Unit C section 23 and Atchison Missouri, Unit D Section 4.

Wetlands

Bruce, Jon and the gang have been keeping busy working the duck blinds on the weekends. We've completed everything in the north zone and Henry B in the Middle
Zone is complete. We have some dry blinds in the Henry County, but any type of run off rain can turn things around over night. Below is a blind that was washed out by floodwater in early July. We disassembled the blind and moved it to another location.

On a dry year when water is hard to come by it is nice to have some holding water to move into the marshes since pumping is usually not possible as the rivers and streams may not have enough water to pump. Fortunately, we have at least one water reservoir to work with as displayed in the photo below.

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