fedreal regulations

[Cheesehead]

This is what the feds say about hunting over crops and I quote.

"Seeds dispersed from naturally occurring vegetation or grain or feed scattered solely by normal agricultural operations, which include normal harvesting, normal post-harvest manipulations, or other normal agricultural practices is not considered baiting.
According to Federal regulations, manipulation is defined as the alteration of natural vegetation or agricultural crops by activities that include but are not limited to mowing, shredding, discing, rolling, chopping, trampling, flattening, burning, or herbicide treatments and is legal for hunting Migratory Game Birds. However the term manipulation does not include the distributing or scattering of grain, seed, or other feed after the removal from or storage on the field where grown and is illegal".

Cheese

[dukkillr]

Right.  My advice is to plant corn and then find the oldest crappiest combine you can.  You want that combine to thresh the corn as much as harvest it.  Thus you can claim you are taking normal farming actions and yet you still leave feed behind for the birds.

[qajaq59]

Once that corn is on the ground do not pick up so much as a kernel and then drop it again or they will consider that baiting the field. Then you wont be allowed to hunt there for quite a while.