advise me

[tknight]

we hunt a 4 to 5 acre bean field and about 1 acre of it floods every year. Is there anything we can do to help for next year. should it be planted in soy beans or corn? Should we try to flood more than an acre? I was just wondering if there were any post season things that you can do to help for next season. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[mississippi_duc_htr]

well Tk it all depends on how the field lays, whether it has slope or not, how many blinds u want to put on it and alot of other things. You could see if the guys that owns it would let u put up a terrace on the lower side and put a drain pipe in so u could release the water when the season closes. You could plant lots of stuff to enhance it. soybeans, browntop millet, jap millet or corn or all of the above if the guy doesnt mind u doing it and hes not palnting it himself......Really need a little more info on the field and how its being used during the summer........ mike

[tknight]

We hunt in the tree line on the edge of the field, the field slopes toward the tree line and has about four inlets into a creek where the water drains off. we currently have one of the inlets dammed up to flood about 1 to 1 1/2 acres of the field. We have great cover there and the sun is always at our back. We are facing kinda N to NW. The beans that were planted there have been underwater since mid November in the area we flooded. The gentleman that farms the land will probably plant beans again or corn but not a mixture. The ducks we saw this year we all pass shots and few even gave us a look. there is a watershed approx. a mile from us as the duck fly's and most seemed to be headed in that direction. I want to know what to do to get the ducks to forget about the watershed and start using our land. I dont understand because there is a lot of hunting pressure at the watershed every year, and we had water and food on the ground, if the beans hadn't rotted or whatever they do after being under water so long.