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It's not just the acres and acres of standing and flooded corn. No till farming practices have taken over every where, and it leaves a ton more waste grain laying in every field north of us. Ducks and geese have a ton of places to feed, and as the seasons to our north close, they have no hunting pressure. They can sit and have all the food they want, and plenty of water to rest in, and they can do whatever ducky things they want until and unless it freezes/snows over and stays that way. There is more hunting pressure on the ducks than ever before, thanks in large part to the Duck Dynasty era. Everyone wants the pile pics for FB and IG, and thinks their influencer videos on Tik Tok or whatever video platform is gonna make them a ton of money.
You'd be shocked how little is actually left between modern combines and earlier harvesting
 
First thing is they have to stop allowing the flooding of standing corn, period. 2nd thing have to cut back and out alot of the food grown and dumped on refugees. It's one thing giving them areas to rest it's another having these completely undisturbed refugees loaded with food to hold thousands of birds there all winter. They will stay there ice or not with it like that. It can freeze over and they can still feed in these flooded standing cornfields, they are flooded right up to the ears of corn. They just walk on the ice and eat right off the ears of corn. We have to get them spreaded back out some and moving around again some. Restoring somewhat of a migration that isn't just solely based on blistering ,ridiculously, unbearable winter weather conditions. It wasn't like that for years, weather played it's role but they were other factors such as food, pressure, and disturbances that also played key roles in distributing and moving migration of birds, also contributing in spreading out the birds some over much larger areas. Rather than the much more condensed and compacted migration we have now with huge concentrations of birds in small areas. If things don't change this sport is eventually going to go away.
None of those changes will ever happen.
 
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