Coy Franks
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Snox, I've only been farming/ranching for over 50 years so I know a little something about government money. I also own, lease and oversee over 5000 acres. In Texas I know for a fact that nothing is paid for feral hog damage by the state and for a fact Federal Crop Insurance does not pay for damage from hogs. We killed our first hog in this county in 1988 and no one has ever received any compensation for damage since then. I have been a director on a State Conservation Board for over 35 years and work closely with the feds. I also work with the Texas Parks and Wildlife with mule deer research. I attend on average 5 feral hog meetings a year with state and fed officials. We PAY a local organization that we set up and the state government for the use of a helicopter for hog control and we are blessed to have this. My son works for a huge crop insurance co and he says no money is paid by the feds for subsidizing any insurance for feral hog damage.
I'm not some keyboard expert that knows someone who has a neighbor that his cousin told him about federal money for hog damage. I'm living and breathing it in real life. I'm paying my dues every day.
I don't know what happens in Michigan but I know dealing with the feds they only offer one shoe for everyone and you have to make it fit.
I've dealt with hog hunters for 26 years now and they are full of empty promises and assurances of how they will control your hogs. Just like you they show up a couple of times a year and the rest of the time they are doing something else. The hogs keep breeding no matter what. You have to kill 80 percent of the current population just to keep it from expanding. No hog hunter can do this showing up a couple of weekends a year. Even the helicopter struggles to maintain this ratio.
So the only compensation we get in Texas is what we charge hunters. That's all.
Back to your blanket statement about fed money for feral hog damage, I still say BS.
I'm not some keyboard expert that knows someone who has a neighbor that his cousin told him about federal money for hog damage. I'm living and breathing it in real life. I'm paying my dues every day.
I don't know what happens in Michigan but I know dealing with the feds they only offer one shoe for everyone and you have to make it fit.
I've dealt with hog hunters for 26 years now and they are full of empty promises and assurances of how they will control your hogs. Just like you they show up a couple of times a year and the rest of the time they are doing something else. The hogs keep breeding no matter what. You have to kill 80 percent of the current population just to keep it from expanding. No hog hunter can do this showing up a couple of weekends a year. Even the helicopter struggles to maintain this ratio.
So the only compensation we get in Texas is what we charge hunters. That's all.
Back to your blanket statement about fed money for feral hog damage, I still say BS.
