Wife and one of her good friends went shopping today over in Texas somewhere, one of those trade day flea market deals...so I decided instead of sitting at the house all day to ride up to the farm.
Old field has just recently been planted in rice.
Kinda thinking our field might be in for a makeover, ran into one of the farm workers who was on a tractor making “water furrows” in our old field. Asked him if he knew what was going to be done on our field on the south end since the bean rows from last year had been disced. He said he had heard something about re doing the field and putting a turn row across it. If that’s the case I guess we’ll do the best we can with it.
Kinda doubt they are going back with beans if they disced up the old rows, and the bean field next to us was already replanted it looked like on the same rows from last year.
Called the guys and told them what I saw and heard, they were a little bummed out about the prospect of hunting a fallow field and the possibility of the blind being put in a turn row, but I don’t think it’s going to be a deal breaker for our group.
I know a lot of guys who do well hunting blinds in turn rows. We’d still have water on both sides of the blind.
Pros: less wear and tear on wheelers driving through flooded field.
Not as much mud to deal with around the pit.
Probably easier to hide than what we ended up with last year for most of the season, when our freshly pulled levee shown here in early November was eventually flattened by waves and we ended up with basically an island.
I figured they were going to try to fix the rutted up area behind the pit, (done by it’s previous renters, not us) since it wasn’t planted last year, and just grew up in weeds.
It’ll be what it’ll be, I’m thankful for a spot to hunt that’s in a good flyway and a place that can be very good when we do our part and get a little help from the weather.
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