Is anyone planning a burn?

[BLACKJACK]

 Originally Posted By: Tom7227

You can contact a Pheasants Forever Habitat team and they will work private land.

For a pretty steep price, it would cost me thousands to have them do my burns.

[kobear]

If it's CRP you can try for Mid-Contract Management dollars. Right now they are authorizing up to $40 an acre as cost share for a hired out burn. That would work out as you get approval for management and cost share from NRCS and FSA, hire out the work and pay $80 an acre for someone to burn, submit the bills and get 50% back ($40). If you hired someone and spent $100 an acre you would still only get $40 as that's the max rate. If you spent $60 you would get $30 back. Landowners can burn privately and get reimbursed upto $30 an acre, again get your ducks in a row with NRCS and FSA and GET ALL THE REQUIRED PERMITS!

No gaurantees with FSA and cost share there can be lot's of hoops there, especially with no approved farm bill, it expires tomorrow, again.

[muc33]

Great info kobear, thanks for posting that!

[lawdog]

What is the acceptable time frames for spring burns in our area MUC33? I've not got my ducks in any sort of a row yet...

[BLACKJACK]

Lets do some more math, if it costs me $80 an acre to get someone to burn my CRP, and I get cost share of $40 an acre, that means it cost me $40 an acre times 80 acres, thats $3200 to burn that CRP. The wife will be impressed with that idea!

How many of you have $3200 laying around - to toss into a fire?

And then to realize that you need to do a burn again in 4-6 years.

What I'm getting at is that it would be nice to get some help from the DNR or PF on these burns, its cost prohibitive for individuals to do it and they have the equipment. We all know a fire is great for CRP but talk is cheap, its harder to get it done that you think.

[muc33]

Lawdog, you still have time, I have seen burns go to mid May. But call your soil and water conservation office they will give you better tmeline.

[goblueM]

with all the rain we got, then the warm temps, everything is greening up around the cities really quickly. I don't know about other areas of the state, but I know St. Paul Parks thinks they're pretty much done burning since it greened up so quick. Real crappy year for it