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<blockquote data-quote="MRUTVOL" data-source="post: 5108854" data-attributes="member: 1779"><p>Absolutely..... I have seen a direct correlation with the new agricultural processes and the turkey population declines in my areas. Once this process of coming in and spraying these fields with herbicides and pesticides and making these fields barren wasteland for habitat the birds have either left the area or numbers greatly declined. They come in and spray them either just before season starts or in the beginning of it. What a few years ago were just a few hundred scattered acres of killed fields are now thousands of acres of prime habitat gone. Also the now earlier cutting of hayfields used for nesting has created another hurdle for turkey survival. Hay cutting used to not start til June but now with new fertilization and seed advancements May has become the time in my part of Tennessee. In one 150 acre field 8 nest including 3 sitting hens were destroyed last year. You add in natural causes such as predators and wet weather the turkey population is gonna suffer. Have not seen a poult of turkeys in few years now where it was common to see multiples . There are areas that have good turkey populations but I notice they are in more hilly cattle pastured Type lands with woods mixed in. Had a farmer tell me ten years ago that unless turkeys changed their nesting habits from these big hayfields there were going to be fewer of them and he was right. Problem is not much can be done cause farmers farm to make a living not to satisfy the turkeys.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MRUTVOL, post: 5108854, member: 1779"] Absolutely..... I have seen a direct correlation with the new agricultural processes and the turkey population declines in my areas. Once this process of coming in and spraying these fields with herbicides and pesticides and making these fields barren wasteland for habitat the birds have either left the area or numbers greatly declined. They come in and spray them either just before season starts or in the beginning of it. What a few years ago were just a few hundred scattered acres of killed fields are now thousands of acres of prime habitat gone. Also the now earlier cutting of hayfields used for nesting has created another hurdle for turkey survival. Hay cutting used to not start til June but now with new fertilization and seed advancements May has become the time in my part of Tennessee. In one 150 acre field 8 nest including 3 sitting hens were destroyed last year. You add in natural causes such as predators and wet weather the turkey population is gonna suffer. Have not seen a poult of turkeys in few years now where it was common to see multiples . There are areas that have good turkey populations but I notice they are in more hilly cattle pastured Type lands with woods mixed in. Had a farmer tell me ten years ago that unless turkeys changed their nesting habits from these big hayfields there were going to be fewer of them and he was right. Problem is not much can be done cause farmers farm to make a living not to satisfy the turkeys. [/QUOTE]
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