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just 4.6 million birds, the lowest recorded in the state in two
decades.
Focusing on the Second Century
Some lessons can be learned from
the boom and bust cycles of both
agriculture and pheasants because
clearly there is a direct correlation.
About 80 percent of South Dakota
is privately owned, so ensuring the
stability of farms and farmers in the
state is essential to sustain pheasant
populations.
Former secretary of SDGFP
John Cooper states, “Hunters and
conservationists need to understand the
farm economy and what it takes to be a
farmer. In the early 2000s, the incentive
to conserve could not compete with the
incentive to farm, and crop insurance
treated all soil types the same. As
a result, a lot of marginal land was
farmed, and habitat conservation just
couldn’t compete with production.”
PF’s Nomsen agrees, stating that
working with private landowners
and communities to implement
conservation will be essential. In
recent years, conservationists along
with federal and state agencies have shifted toward habitat
conservation on working landscapes to work in coordination
with land set-aside programs. Though CRP acreage caps
increased to 27 million acres in the 2018 Farm Bill, there were
also increases to programs like the
Conservation Stewardship Program and
the Environmental Quality Incentives
Program. These programs and efforts
through USDA’s Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS) to
improve soil health through cover crops
and no-till agriculture can also benefit
pheasant populations. In addition,
South Dakota Sen. John Thune created
a Soil Health and Income Protection
Program (SHIPP) in the Farm Bill,
which will pilot in the prairie pothole
region. These programs provide more
flexibility for producers to implement
conservation practices across their
operation.
Another advancement supporting
both conservation and farm income
is precision agriculture. Using GPS
mapping and evaluation of yields,
farmers can specifically identify the
least productive acres on an operation
in order to, as the saying goes, “farm
the best and conserve the rest.”
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