State $$ for food plots?

[Localqdm]

Any of you guys in any programs to help cover some of your costs?  I've heard rumors they exist.  Where do you sign up?

[SplitG2]

Not aware of any food plot programs but NRCS has several timber and native grass programs.  If you find some on food plots, please post.

[burmjohn]

I think there was something for ducks, not food plots though.

[Localqdm]

Okay, I thought I have heard of something, maybe it was a federal program.  I did find that there is a possibility of getting seed through the NWTF (wild turkey federation).  So I'm looking into it.  It's for surplus seed from seed companies donated for wildlife.  Members pay shipping only?  Anyone have any experience with NWTF or this program?

http://www.nwtf.org/conservation/conservation_seed_program.html

[NYDeer]

Not that I'm aware of, and if they did, it would definitely have some type of conditions attached to it..

Other states are working with hunters improving habitat, but usually public land parcels..

This link was alot of info on where the NY Dec is, and wants to go..

2009 NYS DEC Public 'Deer' Meetings Summarry

[outdoorstom]

I'm enrolled in WHIP (wildlife habitat improvement program), through the NRCS. They bought me some native warm season grasses. Also, I'm in Partners for Fish & Wildlife. They dug 8 duck ponds for me, put in a water control structure, and gave me 50 lbs of switchgrass and wildflower seed to plant around the ponds. The only stipulation is I can't fill them in for ten years.

NWTF gave me a bag of corn this Spring. You have to promise to leave it standing for the wildlife , plus sign a form saying you won't sell it.

[HectorBuckBuster]

Hey Outdoortom, you got 8 ponds put in but they can not have water in them for 10 years? Why ? Seems like the ponds would start filling up with soil, and brush in that time frame.

[Localqdm]

WHIP--maybe that is the program I was thinking of.  Guess I was wrong about it helping for food plots.

[Doc]

Hey Outdoortom, you got 8 ponds put in but they can not have water in them for 10 years? Why ? Seems like the ponds would start filling up with soil, and brush in that time frame.

No, I think he meant that he can not fill them in (as in bulldoze the dirt back in) for ten years.

[outdoorstom]

Correct Doc. Sorry about not being clearer!

[erussell]

Hey Outdoortom, you got 8 ponds put in but they can not have water in them for 10 years? Why ? Seems like the ponds would start filling up with soil, and brush in that time frame.

No, I think he meant that he can not fill them in (as in bulldoze the dirt back in) for ten years.

:D  got a good laugh on that one

[rutstrut]

a few years back they had a program,200.00 per acre. check with your local forester.

[nuynai]

I've been getting plants from the County Cornell cooperative Extension Service.  Plant them and they supply wildlife with food all year long, as browse, berries, fruit, etc.  Cheap, but labor intensive.  A lot of state programs have the stipulation that the property is open to the public. 

[outdoorstom]

I've been getting plants from the County Cornell cooperative Extension Service.  Plant them and they supply wildlife with food all year long, as browse, berries, fruit, etc.  Cheap, but labor intensive.  A lot of state programs have the stipulation that the property is open to the public.

Which State programs have that stipulation?

[SplitG2]

$200 an acre...sign me up   What's the name of the program?

[fasteddie]

$200 an acre...sign me up   What's the name of the program?

Uhhhhhhhhhh , it must be the Stimulus Program ! http://www.downsouthhuntingforums.com/images/smiles/icon_smile_whistling.gif[/img]

[growalot]

one was 200 per acre to cut all your poplar trees...and it was limited on funds and pretty much geared toward ppl on the "in" with DEC...least the just I got in phone calls I made last year....