November 2008 Updates page 10
18 November
John,
Wanted to sent you a few pictures of the deer i harvested on November 6th. A front passed through and had a few big bucks walking. I was able to call this buck in and another equally impressive ten point from the opposite direction. They squared off at ten yards from my tree about to fight before i was able to get a clear shot. He grosses just under 150 inches. Thanks again for providing a great place to hunt!
Andy
Thank you Andy for a picture of one fine looking buck. Congratulations your trophy and getting him the hard way.
17 November
Deer
John,
The rut is on...I am finally seeing the big bucks... just not on lease property yet. I'm attaching a photo of a buck I saw following a doe to a stand of sunflowers after I watched him run her alongside a major highway...Most passerbys paid them no attention. Nice buck! I saw another one much like him following a doe across someone's front lawn on the drive out in the dark one evening as well. I'm also going to attach a video I took of the best buck I've seen on MAHA so far this hunting season (Video 7MB)...Nice 2 year old buck. Hopefully he will make it through to next year. Ill be at it again Wednesday.
Thanks, Jeremy
Farm Lobby Leads
The farm lobby again excels beyond that of conservation and hunting organizations looking forward to 2009 and our national economy.
"Budget pressures will drive the agenda in Washington for the foreseeable future. The political will to sustain direct payments to farmers simply may not exist when we write the next farm bill," said Baccus. "If direct payments are going away, if conservation (bold added) and energy debates are going to dominate farm policy--our organization needs to lead that discussion."
High Plains Journal, Mid-west edition, Farmers and ranchers of Kansas Farm Bureau set 2009 policy direction Ensuring credit and expanding export markets are key priorities, Kansas, 11/13/08.
Notice the phrase used "when we [meaning the farm lobby] write the next farm bill". It appears the conservation groups while talking a good game to their narrow group of readership have failed to take an organized national approach of collective resources to a single political point of attack. Evidence of this remains mainstream media. It is the farm lobby that gets print, not the conservation or hunting groups. The future will be written as directed by the most powerful special interest group.
