Crop Edge Habitat

A lot to be said in this one picture.

First the milo is indicative of Kansas and south west central Missouri. Best winter time quail food source to be found within our agricultural region.

When we talk about a lease it is not referencing any one spot. A lease is by landowner name that may have hundreds or thousands of acres. Within that one lease there may be hundreds or thousands of contiguous or non-contiguous acres. On any one upland bird unit lease map may be one or several leases. This is not intended to be confusing, just an accurate description of what an upland bird hunting unit is composed of. For the hunter/member it is more simple.

Each upland bird unit is composed of a map sheet with acreage identified that we have under lease, not necessarily one landowner. Any acreage highlight may range from 80 acres to our largest into the thousands of acres. The upland bird hunter may hunt any of the highlighted acreage on any one map sheet or upland bird hunting unit. The picture above is just one hunting spot (not lease or map sheet) within one unit map sheet or upland bird hunting unit. A map sheet and an upland bird hunting unit is one in the same.

In this one picture of one spot on an upland bird unit of over 2,000 acres is of a single highlighted acreage of 240 cares. The edge line cover and no-till grain crop (value is no fall tillage reducing availability of waste grain) and non-cattle foraging (value leaving waste grain and edge grass for quail) means a good quail hunting spot. Not a guaranteed covey or two, but a spot that cannot be passed on. The challenge is this is a 240 acre field with one edge line at 3/4 mile connecting to a 1/2 mile edge line. At the end of the edge cover there is little to do except walk over previously hunted ground and pick up a single or two passed on when pursuing the covey down the edge or if lucky out into the field. This is true wild quail hunting, not easy, but a good hunt.