Permission to Hunt on Farmland ?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

As usual, I spent all that energy and frustration ranting about my enemies, the deer and moose, and I'm late to the party and no one reads it...

[makar]

I am with af5 but the asshole factor ruins it for everyone, a neighbor drove by his standing canola field this fall to see pickup in his crop with the tailgate down quad ramps up and tracks down his crop, hours later him and a rcmp were sitting there watching the quad return who claimed it wasnt their truck.

[Misterjade9]

Yes AF5 you are right we have the same problem here, the elk wrecked two oat bags this fall before I could get them picked up. The neighbor who used to have elk takes his old fence and fences the bags in the field. I want hunters to come but also have to be mindful of the clubroot issue, as much damage as the wildlife does clubroot could potentially do more.

[grassfarmer]

AF5 I certainly agree that F&W are unnecessarily reluctant to hand out tags based on a false understanding of what numbers really are. That was the situation with bears in extreme SW Alberta where an area is just crawling with them. Here it is the elk tags - very few given out over a huge area as they don't acknowledge there is even a resident population yet a herd of 200 crossed my land early in the winter heading for their wintering grounds. Saying that we've had more damage on our corn from a raccoon family than anything - these little f#$$%^#s can strip the kernels off a lot of cobs!