I've been reading a few articles that state that the folloding in the midwest has wiped out a lot of the pheasant nesting habitat in Iowa.  That's bad news for hunters.   In addition and perhaps a bigger problem is that with the high prices of corn and grains these days more and more crp land which is directly responsible for boosting pheasant populations is being converted into crop land.  One article I read said in South Dakota alone over 300,000 acres of land had been converted from CRP back to field crops this year.  I guess that's good for the farmers but bad for the pheasants.

With the loss/changes to CRP and the shear amount of rain and snow from this last winter, I'm not holding out high hopes for big numbers.  My friends in Iowa tell me the same thing.