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Hunters Helping Farmers Program

Boars. Wild hogs. Feral Pigs. No matter the term, hogs can be a big problem. Especially for landowners who depend on their property to supply crops that provide for their livelihood. Hunters Helping Farmers is a new program combining the efforts of the Georgia Department of Agriculture and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to help alleviate the agricultural and financial damage caused by these non-native invasive pests.

It is a natural fit to connect hunters and farmers together to try and help solve this growing problem, says Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black. In no way will this be a silver bullet, but hopefully one small way we can help assist in this huge issue for our farmers.

Rooting, trampling and consumption of crops are the most common type of damage seen by farmers. Crops most often destroyed include rice, sorghum, wheat, corn, soybeans, peanuts, potatoes, watermelon and cantaloupe. Hogs also can potentially contribute to bacterial contamination and sedimentation issues in waterways and they can carry numerous diseases, such as brucellosis and pseudo rabies.

Feral Hogs are known for causing extensive damage, said Georgia DNR Commissioner Mark Williams. By matching a hunter who is looking for additional hunting opportunities, with a landowner who needs help dispatching feral hogs, we hope to provide some relief to those who are suffering from this problem.

The Hunters Helping Farmers program provides a mechanism to help farmers and hunters engage with a similar goal in mind. The goal of the new program is to help facilitate a relationship between farmers looking for ways to control hog issues on their land and hunters looking to hunt them. Interested farmers can register on the Georgia Department of Agriculture website at www.agr.georgia.gov. Information from interested farmers and hunters will be matched based on geographical area and given to the farmer to choose if and when to contact a hunter. The farmer will be responsible for making all arrangements with the hunter.

For more information, call 1-844-464-5455



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go here to sign up. you will have to pick a county

docs.google.com/forms/d/1KqEw_oFoouKzlBu39gYDiBuktWssnC7UAMtX92VfNrU/formResponse

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I'm in!

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Sounds like a good feb/mar hunting trip to me........

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Fellows, I have done some research on the subject and found a few counties that supposedly have good hog population. They are all located east of Athens and close to the Savannah river.
Few things still to determine: can we hunt in groups; if so, how many in a group?
I figure we will need 5-6 guys and then each person signs up for a county: 5-6 counties that we can hunt on!
Will contact DNR tomorrow to find out the details about how the program works. Stay tune.

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Thanks Jose'



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Put me on the "Highly Intrested" list. I'd love to hunt GA that time of year, or any southern state for that matter.

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Jose' Jim told me he wants to go. I'd like to do it before Christmas. The weather down there is pretty changable

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I hope this pans out. I remember a couple years ago Indiana launched a program called hunters helping farmers. This was a program that was going to help cut down deer numbers on the farms in the program. A lot of hunters signed up to get to hunt private land.

Unfortunately no farmers signed up. You don't hear about it anymore.



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Because their sons and Grandsons are hunting and they found out they could get $$$ for a LEASE..........which I hate.

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Farmers do what they gotta do to survive, like everyone else. They sure aint making it on corn this year, I heard corn prices are lower now than when I milked cows 30 years ago(I was paying $3.50 a bushel then). Anyone else want their paycheck to go back to 1984 value ? Worse than that, their expenses are at todays value.

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yeah, but it doesn't keep me from hating it.

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yeah, I hear ya. its why I hunt public land. im lucky enough to have a little of my own, but a trip to hunt public land is a welcome treat to me. I like wide open spaces !


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Public land? In Indiana? Bwaaaaahhhhaaaaaa!

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Here's a little more information
forum.gon.com/forumdisplay.php

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Florida:

SUNTREE, Fla. A wildlife trapper is looking for wild hogs that are roaming a central Florida community.

Trapper James Dean told Florida Today the hogs have recently torn up the lawns of 17 homes in the Sawgrass at Suntree subdivision near Melbourne.

Dean says they want to trap the hogs before Halloween so they won't pose a problem for children as they trick or treat.

So far he's trapped eight hogs and has set up additional traps. He believes one of the loose hogs weighs about 350 pounds.

The wild hogs aren't new to the area, but Dean says the damage they've caused this is the worst he's seen. He says the hogs are coming out of the woods to search for grub worms.

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A "little", hunting pressure will drive them away.  biggrin



-- Edited by jdemoya on Friday 31st of October 2014 05:44:35 PM

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