By Chris Hitzeman | April 13, 2012
What's the recipe for a great spring pheasant hatch? 1 Cup of warm dry fall, dose of warm dry winter and sprinkle in a smidgen of warm dry spring. Walla, a wonderful dish of increased pheasant numbers!
By Chris Hitzeman | January 23, 2012
If you live or know anyone in or near the midwest of the country you'll know that the winter of 2011-2012 has been one of the most mild winters on record. On January 5th Armour South Dakota logged a 70 degree high temperature. 1 degree short of the record high. The same week Minneapolis clocked in a record 52 degree high temp. One for the books.
By Chris Hitzeman | October 11, 2011
Just when you'd thought you'd seen it all, as far as weather goes in South Dakota, it does a 180 on you again. In the last 2 weeks I have spent more time at the farm and also talking with UGUIDE Pheasant Camp Owners about the upcoming season. I also got to ride in a John Deere combine for the very first time. On Oct. 1, while mowing some edges of CRP fields, I saw a week old pheasant that could barely fly. It looked more like a chick than poult. I saw another brood of 8-10 birds that had no coloer on them whatsoever.
By Chris Hitzeman | September 20, 2011
SD GFP Road Counts are out...Down, Down, Down....Now what?
It's been 2 months since our last report in July. Much has transpired since then. I had to finish mowing my new CRP blocks the first week in August and I would say without a doubt that that week I have seen the most birds on the roads and in the CRP cover all summer. Even as a landowner out working habitat on your farm it remains difficult to assess real bird numbers due to all the cover available for young broods to escape into.
By Chris Hitzeman | July 19, 2011
We're implementing over 150 acres of new CRP at the Pheasant Camp Lodge near Geddes South Dakota this season. Some trees but mostly grasses. Last week I was out doing some CRP maintenance which included clipping weeds in some of the new CRP stands. I am happy to report having seen several broods of chicks from 3" to 6" in size and all are flyers as they pretty much fly from very young and small in size.
By Matt Morlock | May 17, 2011
Eastern South Dakota is wet right now thanks to spring runoff and rains. But if things can dry up over the next couple weeks, that would make for a good nesting season in the state, according to Matt Morlock, Pheasants Forever Farm Bill Biologist based out of Brookings, South Dakota.
By Chris Hitzeman | May 12, 2011
I am highly encouraged by the amount of pheasants that carried over from this last winter.
By Chris Hitzeman | October 17, 2010
We really couldn't have asked for a much better day to open our pheasant season,said South Dakota Game Fish and Parks Wildlife Director, Tony Leif. Dry weather has helped move the fall crop harvest along and concentrate a good crop of birds in the remaining cover. It was a successful day and it will only get better from here.?
By Chris Hitzeman | August 26, 2010
This autumn, hunters in South Dakota will enjoy pheasant numbers that continue to be some of the best in the state?s history. The 2010 brood survey count shows a small increase from the 2009 survey.
The Game, Fish and Parks Department completed its annual pheasant brood survey in mid-August, and tallied a statewide pheasants-per-mile count that is up about 3 percent from last year.
By Chris Hitzeman | August 23, 2010
Well this is ahead of the South Dakota Brood Reports but you can form your own opinions from thier data. Last week I was out at the farm and took this video from a 6 mile drive between farms in Charles mix County South Dakota. This is UGUIDE's first (and maybe last) informal roadside survey. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TppsITzN0oE
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