Baiting question

[span870]

A few posts down the question was raised about hunting over a corn fields that was disced under for turkey. The answer was that it was illegal due to it being, not normal ag process.

Brings to mind the fact that years ago, maybe still do, f&w areas used to plant sunflowers for dove fields. Several days before the hunt the property would mow and disc the sunflowers under and we would hunt over them. How is one legal but the other isn't? Or is it? I wouldn't think mowing and discing sunflowers isn't normal ag process.

[morrison]

The difference is Federal Regulations governing the hunting of migratory birds which are adopted by Indiana. A crop may be manipulated for the hunting of doves but the same practice can not be utilized to hunt waterfowl.

Federal Regulations allow the growing sunflowers and mowing them down is a practice completed by various properties across the state for dove hunting. However, waterfowl cannot be hunted in the area of the sunflowers. States do not regulate migratory birds. The states adopt the regulations established by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

The state does determine the regulations for Deer and Turkey including the baiting laws.