Made another round today. Many of the regular fields are behind on cuttin` corn,although most have alot done.</p>
Billy Barr has his main field cut and leftseveral rows down the middle for chopping and blowing on the ground, much more than previous years.</p>
"Snake " Robert Watson has about the same set up .</p>
A.J.Smith has very little cut which will help the other fields since he hasn`t had a public hunt in years and usually has the most birds. </p>
Harrison`s has none cut in the field I hunted last year, But I spotted a big field not too far away that left some uncut rows around the edge of the field for no apparent reason. I`d almost bet this will also be a lease field</p>
The chopping and blowing of corn on the ground usually a week before the season is a practice the TWRA has been encouraging with the lease farms for several years. It seems to work pretty good but I`ve felt like several times they didn`t chop and blow enough on the ground. Billy has left probably five times as much as he left last year for choppin` and blowin`. I personally prefer the spreading of winter wheat seed but the timing of that can make a bigdifference. One good shower and the seed will sprout in about 3 days and the birds won`t touch it. </p>
The other thing that I`ve noticed is the tremendous increase in the number of birds I`m seeing on my drive arounds. Last year I could tell it was gonna be tuff early on because I was seeing few birds. I`d guess probably 10 times as many birds this year and some are already using the fields even though none have been blown on the ground yet.</p>
I expect with the dry weather forcasted for this coming week that most ofwhat is left will be cut and should blow the leftover rows toward the end of the week.</p>
These fields are within a mile or two of the Philadelphia /Loudon/Sweetwater exits off I-75... some can be seen from the interstate.</p>
Billy Barr has his main field cut and leftseveral rows down the middle for chopping and blowing on the ground, much more than previous years.</p>
"Snake " Robert Watson has about the same set up .</p>
A.J.Smith has very little cut which will help the other fields since he hasn`t had a public hunt in years and usually has the most birds. </p>
Harrison`s has none cut in the field I hunted last year, But I spotted a big field not too far away that left some uncut rows around the edge of the field for no apparent reason. I`d almost bet this will also be a lease field</p>
The chopping and blowing of corn on the ground usually a week before the season is a practice the TWRA has been encouraging with the lease farms for several years. It seems to work pretty good but I`ve felt like several times they didn`t chop and blow enough on the ground. Billy has left probably five times as much as he left last year for choppin` and blowin`. I personally prefer the spreading of winter wheat seed but the timing of that can make a bigdifference. One good shower and the seed will sprout in about 3 days and the birds won`t touch it. </p>
The other thing that I`ve noticed is the tremendous increase in the number of birds I`m seeing on my drive arounds. Last year I could tell it was gonna be tuff early on because I was seeing few birds. I`d guess probably 10 times as many birds this year and some are already using the fields even though none have been blown on the ground yet.</p>
I expect with the dry weather forcasted for this coming week that most ofwhat is left will be cut and should blow the leftover rows toward the end of the week.</p>
These fields are within a mile or two of the Philadelphia /Loudon/Sweetwater exits off I-75... some can be seen from the interstate.</p>
