If you shred them and make an attempt to harvest them, then yes you are good. Shred them, take a sack and pick some up for feed and you are legal.

If a crop comes up volunteer you can do whatever you want to. Shred, thrash, drive over it with a atv. This doesnt meen you can strip a corn cob in or around your hunting sight or pull the ears off the stock and throw them in the water. You can plant any crop you want regardless of your intentions, but if you manipulate the crop (shred,thrash,harvest,drive over,nock down,etc.) , it must be done in a way that is considered normal ag. practice. So if you plant a crop to hunt over, dont jack with it.

I think the difference here guy is how was the question asked. If you simply asked can you hunt ducks over a a flooded farmers crop the GW will say sure, not a problem. If you ask can I plant japanese millet around my pond to attract ducks for hunting and I have no combine to harvest, no sales tickets from past years, ect, can I hunt over it. Now I know you did not intend to ask that way and not being deceitful at all, I just read it for myself and can see what the intentions were.

The intentions of the law were designed to allow hunting without the disruption of a farming operation. Disruption of farming and leasing for money is what I am talking about.

The feds do not allow baiting and there again IMO, planting a grain for the attraction of waterfowl is illegal. If you have no attempts or proof of ever harvesting it is simply baiting. If you go to farmer Joe and ask to hunt his wheat or rice then you are not in violation. He has plenty of past and future proof it was planted in accordance with the overseeing ag agency.

To give you an idea of how restrictive the agencies are: The bigger operations are all run off of GPS. Each square yard of soil is sampled and the results are fed to the onboard computer. that computer tells the spray nozzles what type of fertilizer to spray for each and every square yard of a field. The information is uploaded to the ag agency. Regulations state when they can and can not spray due to weather conditions. If they spray outside of allowable conditions they are fined. So proof of a normal ag operation is there. It is not there when you plant jap mill with your Ford and a rake.

Sorry Guy I am not trying to beat you up. I just spoke with the fed GW. His exact words were you can hunt a farming crop that has been harvested or will be harvested, one that has been planted for the sole purpose of harvest. You absolutely can not plant to attract wildlife and not attempt to harvest the crop.

He further stated being this is not an area where jap mill would not fall under the ag extension office definition of a bona fide crop, it is illegal to plant and hunt it.

I asked him to double check with their legal department and he is to call me back tomorrow. But as he sees it right now and has throughout his career it is illegal.

I grew up on a farm where we grew almost everything we ate. I could see putting in a garden that would do double duty. Sweet corn, peas, beans, etc.; livestock would probably like a little millet as well. I would put what I consume in the freezer and flood the rest.

You can send all he email you want, it still boils down to the Wardens interpretation of the law and his disposition at the moment.

Hello Guy WAL from Cody Wyoming. Again not to rustle your feather but I have recieved now 2 differnet answers from the feds. One says you can as long as you don't manipulate the crop. The other says planting itself is manipulation and says it is a violation. More to come, right now I am going to hang into another 2 pound rainbow, as in trout.

Ask them when was the last time they actually read the law book...

Enjoy Montana. It's almost 100 degrees here.

Now that's really sad when you can't get a common answer for a Federal regulation that all states must abide by. Wow, no wonder we never know which one is legal and prohibited!

Wayne - hope you are having a blast in WY and catch a rainbow for me! Hey, send us some cooler temperatures..PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I saw this again last night on Primos Truth About Hunting. They were hunting ducks in a corn field that appeared to have very little water in it in Mississippi. Again it appears to be the same thing Cappy is doing. My neighbor and I had this discussion last night. We have been talking about approaching a local land owner to see if we could do this on his property. The land owner has shown some interest in doing this and selling guided trips.

I've talked to several game wardens about it. You can plant food plots and hunt the same year, as long as it's not manipulated. Manipulated means flattened, shredded, or otherwise "manipulated" soas to cause the seeds to fall onto the ground.

I'm meeting with the National Resource Conservation Service people, along with the local game warden. I'm buying a large wetlands property and want to get them onboard with everything. They are actually encouraging me to manage my wetlands...ie drain it late winter, burn it, disc it and plant food, then flood in the fall. I fully intend on hunting over one big flooded food plot, but one that has not been manipulated.

I just saw another duck hunting show last night, these guys were hunting over flooded "crops". Have any of you guys ever heard of Egyptian Wheat?

yes it is very good