it's legal to manipulate a crop like bush hogging corn and hunt everything but migratory game birds while standing in the corn. Period.

Not according to my local guy. Who actually hunts on my place occasionally.

I bet the Pilgrims and Native Americans had to hunt to SURVIVE! I bet they didn't give a rat's rearend about how many inches of bone was on its head! When "hunters" have to eat deer, turkey, possum, coon, blackbirds, crows, rats, etc to survive till the next day and grow their own corn from corn they saved for the purpose of having food, then bait away. UNTIL THEN HUNTING IS A RECREATIONAL PURSUIT AND PARTICIPATION TROPHIES ARE NOT GIVEN, not matter how bad ":hunters" want one so they can move on to the next en vogue RECREATIONAL endeavor.

Just a little food for thought.

Alabama Code 9-11-244 dealing with bait.

http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/codeofalabama/1975/9-11-244.htm

Well here... revised by USFWS

Always heard the feller that does the bush hoggin' can't hunt the bush hogged corn but everyone else can. I guess it is baiting for him per DCNR Commish or someone down there, but not everyone else on the planet .

9-11-244 says it's unlawful to scatter grain, bush hog can flat do some scattering.

Well you can be hard headed as you want. I'll keep doing what is been okd over this way.

These baiting laws have to be the most assanine laws ever written. Would have loved to been in on the discussion when they decided bush hoggin a corn field was somehow diffrent than pouring corn out of a bag of the back of a truck for that matter.

Lots of grey area= more tickets= more revenue. I'm not trying to back y'all down but I've had my practices approved by my local guys. He told me do what I want with the crop. Just don't shoot ducks on it. I hate duck hunting anyway.

Just make sure someone else pours that corn out of a bag and make sure you can't see it from your stand no matter the distance , should be good to go.

That's only good till the new GW comes to town and sees things differently, " by the book".

Well you didnt mind hunting on it

Ahhh, but I didn't know anything about or do the hoggin' , that makes it A-OK in the screwed up world of Montgomery.

Hmm, years of real wet weather, droughts, high winds, or hail during the growing period or getting close to harvest time can render crops unsaleable. Thereby leaving the farmer no other choice than bush hogging the crop to get it back on the ground and decaying so that the fields can be planted the next planting season.

One would think that some believe ag fields just pop up crops like perfect little daisies every year!

I thought it was "normal farming practices". Could be my normal farming practice to bushhog a little corn each week in january. It will be my normal farming practice from now on anyhow.

Been mine for years. My corn has a terrible disease I'd rather not put in a grain bin!

Nothing “grey” or difficult to understand about the baiting law. Goobers just like to argue because they have nothing better to do. Habitat management is not baiting. Keeping legal feeders out is not baiting. Quality habitat management is not the same as baiting

Is planting a food plot in late summer for just 2-4 months of the year so you can see and/or kill deer on it the same as habitat management?

Planting a food plot for the purpose of harvesting deer is part of habitat management plan. Sorta like eggs are part of a cake