Am I allowed to plant food plots or crops (i.e. corn, rice, milo, sudan, etc.)?
The Presley Program strives to develop wetland management strategies that promote moist-soil plants (i.e., watergrass, smartweed, and swamp timothy) to benefit waterfowl.The policy of the Presley Program is to not compensate enrolled landowners for planting food plots. This policy is based on the premise that moist-soil plants are more cost-efficient to grow than food plots, provide total energy values similar to food plots, have higher nutritive qualities than food plots, and provide greater vegetative diversity than a monoculture of one crop.Food plots require annual tillage, purchase of seed, fertilizer applications, herbicide applications, and multiple well-timed irrigations to be productive. Moist-soil plants require one-third as much fuel per unit to grow, no fertilizer, and a fraction of the water. It is our position that the technical assistance and limited funding provided by the CWHP are better utilized to manage moist-soil habitats than food plots.
