Ep. 398 Hunting Trail Cameras, The Upcoming CRP Cliff, and Why Land Prices Are Stagnant

Realtor and CRP planter Steve Hansen joins Nicolas and Kent to test a new Friday format: a rolodex of topics. They cover Iowa's public land trail camera ban, drones in hunting, the 2016 pollinator CRP boom, 44% of Iowa CRP expiring in 2027, farmland values, and whether elk could return.

 

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Chapters:

0:00:00 Intro with Steve Hansen

0:02:00 Sponsor and Harvest Day

0:04:00 High School Workers and OSHA

0:06:00 Why Steve Is Back

0:08:00 Trail Cameras on Public Land

0:12:00 Hunting Stories

0:14:00 Old World Hunting Laws

0:18:00 Technology Moving Faster Than Ethics

0:20:00 Drones and Hunting

0:24:00 Drone Perimeter Systems on Farms

0:26:00 Early CRP Seed Mixes

0:28:00 Burning CRP Fields

0:30:00 Photo Monitoring a Planting

0:32:00 Working with Landowners

0:34:00 Using CRP Strategically for Deer

0:36:00 CRP Paperwork

0:38:00 The Dust Bowl and Where CRP Came From

0:40:00 Railroads and Public Land History

0:44:00 What the Prairie Would Look Like

0:46:00 Paying Landowners for Conservation

0:48:00 Interest Rates and Land Loans

0:50:00 Who Is Buying Farmland

0:52:00 Development Around Pella

0:54:00 Realtors, Commissions and Land Prices

0:58:00 Handling Land Sales Quietly

1:00:00 Terrace Repair and a Lawsuit

1:06:00 Frivolous Lawsuits

1:12:00 The Expiration Date on Ethanol

1:16:00 AI and Universal Basic Income

1:18:00 Land in Southern and Northeast Iowa

1:20:00 How Steve Uses AI

1:22:00 Movie Recommendation

1:24:00 Land Values by Region

1:26:00 Wrap Up