| So if you're like me, you grew up on
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| | high lime content which is supposedly
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| saving for shells, license fees and gas
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| | good for nesting and hatching brood.
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| to get you to your favorite pheasant
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| | - Habitat Cashflow - South Dakota
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| hunting "spot". That "spot" may have been
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| | dominates the commercial fee hunting
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| a road ditch, public ground, railroad
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| | business and than means farmers can
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| track, bridge overpass or any other place
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| | afford to "leave a little" for the
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| that you might think a pheasant would
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| | pheasants. Heck, they can afford to leave
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| hide. If you were lucky you might have
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| | a lot! Habitat is everything.
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| met and developed a relationship with a
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| | - CRP acres - Any state that has high CRP
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| farmer and he was nice enough to let you
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| | acres is where you will find the birds
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| hunt on his private land.
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| | plain and simple. South Dakota has them.
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| Once you've done that for 20 years and
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| | North Dakota has them too and that is no
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| you go through a few years when the
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| | surprise why North Dakota is a sister
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| pheasant shooting ain't real good it
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| | state to South Dakota when it comes to
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| doesn't take the mind long to start to
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| | being the king of pheasant destinations.
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| wonder if there are any better places to
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| | - Land prices, rents and dirty farming -
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| hunt pheasants than your usual local
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| | Thank God that some land in South Dakota
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| haunts.
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| | just ain't real good for farming. When
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| UGUIDE receives many calls and guests
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| | farm ground is not as productive and
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| from the Midwest. States like Wisconsin,
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| | rents are lower then of course land
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| Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and
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| | prices are lower and the farmers aren't
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| Indiana are probably the most common
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| | as bent on farming up to the fence lines
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| origination points for a South Dakota
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| | or trying to plow under wetlands and
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| pheasant hunting vacation. I suspect that
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| | slough or weedy areas to get them to pay.
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| the sad but true driver to the reason
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| | South Dakotan's have long enjoyed to
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| behind that growth is that what one day
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| | tourism business associated with their
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| used to be great pheasant hunting has
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| | remote destination. For the most part
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| dwindled to a below average pheasant
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| | they really enjoy pheasant hunters and
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| hunting experience in those states. The
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| | pheasant hunting but the majority of
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| price of farmland has gone up
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| | resident farmers are not avid pheasant
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| dramatically in those states in recent
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| | hunters. Now deer hunting, that is a
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| years and one can only speculate that
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| | whole different story.
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| farmers who were once able to "leave a
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| | I think it makes a big difference that
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| little for the pheasants", now can no
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| | pheasant hunting and the business of
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| longer afford to do that. Seems that
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| | hunting pheasants has been in the culture
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| there is a relationship between
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| | of the state for so many years.
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| skyrocketing land prices and farmland
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| | Bottom line is that if you love to
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| cash rents - the result: plummeting
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| | pheasant hunt, and that look in your dogs
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| pheasant populations.
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| | eye is making you feel guilty about not
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| I'm not sure what the magic is behind
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| | getting him on more real wild birds, then
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| South Dakota's seasonally high pheasant
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| | you should look into making your next
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| populations but a few factors separate
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| | wild pheasant hunting vacation
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| this state from the rest:
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| | destination... South Dakota.
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| - Soil types - South Dakota's soil has
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