Hunting lands

With the baby boomers getting older and the lack of young hunters being introduced into the sport I am thinking that hunting land will become much more available in the near future. I also believe that a lot of cane, cotton, and other crops are going to be converted to corn in Louisiana due to the paranoia of the masses and the need for ethanol. What does all this mean? The few young hunters that are introduced to hunting now will have their pick of cheep quality hunting land 20 years from now. Just a thought.

Because of rising price of corn, some of that "cheap" hunting land will be cleared off to plant more corn and other crops to produce ethanol. Because of the rising price of corn, it's going to become increasingly expensive to feed animals for food. Rising prices for gas, meat poultry, milk, as a result, will reduce our ability to afford to pay for hunting leases and hunting clubs.

could be wrong but dont think hunting land will go down. i belive it will go up with everything else (except my weages!!!lol)agree with the ethanol corn statement!!!!but i think they can also use sugar cane also.

In it’s simplest form I am talking of supply and demand. I believe the supply of land will increase due to a decrease of hunters. Therefore as the demand decreases so does the price, just as it does in most economies. Even if inflation results from more corn going to cars than cows there will still be more available land.

Drew i do hope you are rightand understand what you are saying but the way it is going in my neck of the woods each time a new parcel comes up for lease the wealthy bid extremly high if they dont buy it first!!Not faulting them for it but ive seen over 2000acres disapear right here at the house within the last year so they can make exotic hunting ranches on it. Could be localized i guess though

wish there were more youngsters getting into hunting though!!even if it means higher leases!!!

Not if the land is being cleared to plant more corn.

I like your train of thought and I hope your train is on track-but I see way too many woods being converted to clear cuts and concrete. Other areas I once hunted now are high fence enclosures.
It could be just in the areas I live and hunt-but it could also be coming to an area near you.
May be in regards to this topic I see the glass as half empty.

In my neck of the woods if it's not a swamp it's a sub-division.

There ought to be a hunting season on "developers" and "land managers".

One thing they don't make anymore of....prices will continue to climb. Land price is not based solely on hunting. It is also based on joe bob needing a place to put his trailer, and his kids needing a place to put a trailer. It will never come down.

Judging on what I read and what my farmers tell me, they won't jump on the ethanol bandwagon as long as the other crops bring a decent price....however should the ethanol joke become serious it only takes them a short period of time to switch.

Hunting land won't suffer from farming, housing will take care of that.