Waterfowl Food Plots - Wild Rice, sago, celery and freshwater shrimp

[LandDr]

Posting this to update anyone interested in waterfowl food sources.

I just got back from giving seminars at the Oregon Waterfowl Festival.  What really amazed me was how much "moist soils management" they do out there.  They plant there duck food plots in the spring and then flood them out in the fall for some great duck hunting!  Why don't we do more of that?

Ducks like water...but they like food in the water even better!

Like putting food plots out for deer and pheasants...this is food plots for ducks.

We will be harvesting WILD RICE in a couple of weeks.  For info on wild rice, see the MNO Habitat Outlet Store at www.HabitatNOW.com/go/MNO

Shrimp are available in January and February each year as that is the time we can harvest them.  You can also read more info on this item at the MNO site.

SAGO and Celery...we are harvesting these items right now and will have them available for the next couple of weeks or until harvest runs out.

Sago is one of my favorites and the ducks love the "nutlets" that form at the surface of the water.  Needs medium to mucky soils and 12 to 36 inch water depth.  A pond full of sago will really bring the ducks in.

Celery is a deeper water plant prefering 3 to 9 feet water depths and sandy to medium soils.  The big diver ducks are after the tubers with this plant.

Check out www.HabitatNOW.com/go/MNO for the Minnesota Outdoorsman Habitat Outlet for further information or post questions if you have them.

Any questions...give me a comment back.  I will post this in the waterfowl topic as well.

Thanks!

Kyle, PLM