Farm Tour
Brown City • Carsonville • Yale • Hastings • Silverwood • Saint Johns

BROWN CITY AREA

Farm 1 (1 - 4 Hunters)
CRP Native grass planting with food plots of sorghum makes this one of our best farms. Great for pointing or flushing dogs. Most groups of hunters will be kept busy for the better part of a day to hunt this farm thoroughly. The CRP cover seeding is well established and very prime. Even if we have snow, it has little effect on the heavy marsh grass around the pond, and the willows in the ditch hold up as good winter cover under any weather conditions. There are patches of extra heavy grass in the fields and along the big ditch, and the edge along the R/R Track is always worth hunting. This farm is producing well, so bring a friend or two and come out. Some large sorghum plots have been added to enhance winter hunting on this farm.

Farm 2 (2 - 6 Hunters)
This is a big beautiful farm - alternating strips of hay and corn or beans provide lots of edge cover and the miles of great fencerows will make this a favorite of hard core hunters.

Farm 3 (1 - 4 Hunters)
This medium farm has lots of room for dogs to work and some real great pheasant cover. It's ok to hunt around the abandoned buildings of this place.

Farm 4 (1 to 4 Hunters)
It can't get much better than this farm. Much of this large hunt is harvested cropland, rotating from corn to soybeans to alfalfa. There are some great ditches with heavy sawgrass cover. Out in the middle of the farm is a small grove of trees surrounded by a swail that is usually dry during our season. It's like an island of cover in the field ocean, and it's usually a birdy spot. It's also one of the best spots in all of the farms to find rabbits. One large field is in the 10 year set aside (CRP) program, and it will just keep getting better. An excellent border of Sorghum provides winter food and cover adjacent to the grassland areas, supplying ideal habitat for birds and other species. Up to six hunters will have lots to do on this excellent farm.

Farm 5 (1 - 4 Hunters)
This is a small to medium hunt. Some of the harvested cropland doesn't have to be hunted very hard, but excellent fencerows and a CRP set aside area provide excellent cover. Weedy areas and the wheat stubble should be hunted, and the big ditch is always a good place to find game, especially at the West End of the farm, by the R/R Track.

Farm 7 (1 - 4 Hunters)
This is a very scenic farm, with frequent deer sightings. Alfalfa, corn/beans, and CRP set aside about evenly share the cultivated land, and a woods, a great ditch, and a small swampy area with trees and brush add lots of good edge cover. Large sorghum stands left along the edges of the woods are great places to hunt with both pointing and flushing dogs. Don't be afraid to follow pheasants into the woods. Good farm for rabbit and squirrel.

Farm 8 (1 - 4 Hunters)
A real sportsmen's challenge. This farm has all the cover Michigan has to offer. A small swamp area with trees and brush, good ditches with grass and brush, wheat stubble, corn stubble, sorghum, brushy fencerows, and a classic overgrown orchard all combined into a beautiful, challenging hunt. This well protected farm is the best place you can be at Farmland on a real windy day, and the protection makes it warmer on frigid days too. Reserve early to get this popular farm.

Farm 9 (1 to 6 hunters)
This is our most popular and one of our most productive farms. Some alfalfa, some corn or soybeans, and lots of CRP grass combine to make this an outstanding hunt! Add a sorghum food area, two great ditches, and the hedge along the RR Track, and it's easy to see why this farm is very popular to the pheasants in the area as well as to the hunters. Single hunters taking on this farm better be good walkers, because up to six hunters can have a busy productive hunt here.

Farm 10 (1 to 6 Hunters)
This 1/2-mile X 1/2-mile farm is usually almost all soybeans or corn or a combination of the two. A small CRP grass area at one end, and a Great Ditch running right across the middle of the farm with a60 foot wide buffer strip of sorghum to stop erosion, makes this a super hunt. Birds flushed at one end will fly out over the crop stubble, and nearly always will circle around and land right back in the sorghum. If you hunt hard, across the ditch and back twice, you will invariably move birds each time you go, and after lunch hunt it again and you'll probably see more birds. Like farm 9, this farm is very popular with the pheasants. Alfalfa on the south side of the ditch adds diversity to the cover and enhances the hunting.

Farm 11 (1 - 4 Hunters)
There's lots of land, but after the crops are harvested this is a smaller hunt. This farm is mostly corn or soybeans, with a strip of sorghum and Sudan grass running up the middle. Because of the condensed cover left after the crop is combined, this farm is good for pups or other inexperienced dogs. It even will produce well for hard hunters without dogs. The open area, and the relatively uncomplicated hunt, makes this an excellent place for young inexperienced hunters to start, too.

Farm 13 (1 - 4 Hunters)
Hay and corn make this large farm birdy. There is one house on this farm at the NE corner and hunters will need to Respect their space, but even considering that - there will be lots of great hunting here. A good-sized sorghum plot provides winter cover and food for the game.

Farm 14 (1 - 4 Hunters)
Sorghum strips - a nice old farm lane and great grass cover around a pond make it interesting and fun. Corn, beans and wheat are rotated as the main crop on this farm. Usually 2 of the 3 are present, providing good habitat and excellent hunting.