Ag Commish Andrew Gipson issued the following statement.
Today, Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson announced that the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce (MDAC) will begin accepting a new round of applications for its Wild Hog Control Program (WHCP) on Monday, May 1. The application period will remain open until Monday, May 15. All Mississippi counties are eligible for the application period.
“I encourage farmers and landowners who have experienced property damage due to these nuisance animals to submit an application for this program,” said Commissioner Gipson. “Those who have previously participated in the Wild Hog Control Program have seen positive results.”
In Mississippi alone, wild hogs cause more than $60 million in damages annually. Through the WHCP, MDAC provides “smart” wild hog traps to landowners and managers for the control of wild hogs on private agricultural and forestry lands in Mississippi. MDAC provides the training necessary to use the “smart” traps and technical guidance regarding the most effective methods to trap and control wild hogs on private lands.
Applications must be completed and submitted online at www.mdac.ms.gov/whcp. Submitted applications will be evaluated based on the number of acres available for trapping, historical agricultural losses caused by wild hogs on the property and current trapping efforts on the property. A cooperative application is encouraged for small acreage (i.e., adjoining land managers of small parcels should work together to submit one application). Traps will be available for one-month intervals, dependent upon use and success. One trap per 500 – 1,000 acres is recommended, depending on landscape and land use.
Visit www.mdac.ms.gov/whcp for program guidelines, applications and additional information. Submit questions regarding the WHCP to Chris McDonald atchris@mdac.ms.gov.
40 comments:
Under used resource. A lot of hungry people could be fed with the meat from all of those nuisance animals
just get the guys from swamp people up here to take care of the hog problem. shoot 'em clint, shoot em!
I clicked on that link thinking it would be an article about Ole Miss fans!
Misleading headline!
So now we have to have permission to protect our land from wild animals from the state of Mississippi? Not Me ! If I see hogs on my property and I have in the past I am going to trap, shoot and kill by whatever means necessary to protect my livelihood. If the state wants to fine me for doing so I will gladly take my chance before a jury and win. I have never seen a politician that did not love taxing the people in which they serve. Politicians do two thing and they do them well and that is TAX and SPEND and most times when new legislation becomes law we either lose a little bit more of our freedom or get taxed to practice it.
That hog meat is risky vittles, son.
@3:30
I think this is a program where they ll come kill them for you, or that's how I read it anyway
3:30 you didn't read the article. Hogs are a nuisance animal and are always killable.
Look up Yawt Yawt on YouTube to see a Mississippi trapper in action!
The meat is totally unlike the pork you find in the grocery store. Awful. Terrible. And I believe the number of diseases and pathogens they carry is around 84. If you kill one DO NOT TOUCH it without gloves.
"Risky Vittles"
Made me laugh and I call it for future band name!
@ 4:27,
I enjoy slinging some lead at a deer once or twice a year and hang around a lot of guys who do it quite a bit more than me, and not once.........have I ever heard that wild hog meat is any more dangerous than anything else you shoot skin and fry up. Me thinks you are speaking out of your derrier
4:27 You're not an "outdoorsman," are you? I personally know 100+ people who REGULARLY kill / eat wild hogs. So where exactly did you get your "information?"
The Hat don't want nothin to do with medical weed and his religion makes him back off from that responsibility, although it involves a CROP which, under any other administration would be the responsibility of HIS department.
But, he's quick to poke his sizeable nose into wild pigs which is the venue of MDWFP.
Wild hogs have taken over several counties along Big Muddy and not one damned agency in this state has talked about solutions. You and three hundred of your close cousins could shoot a hundred a day (each) and not make an impact.
The Hat, as always, is all talk and no saddle. But he'll pray for me come Sunday morning.
4:27, et al, hell, its in the bible not to eat those things.
Leptospirosis, toxoplasmosis, brucellosis, tularemia, trichinellosis, swine influenza, salmonella, hepatitis and pathogenic E. coli are just a few menu items presented by feral swine which can infect humans.
Perhaps hog eaters here could just bag limit themselves to the pigs offered nightly in South Jackson and deal with one disease at a time?
Commissioner Gibson is right, this is an extremely effective method of removing hogs. Hogs are very very smart, very sensitive to hunting pressure, and mostly nocturnal.
We had a growing problem at our hunting lease, but the problem started on an adjoining farmer's corn fields. Years of frequently hunting those fields at night (legally, with permission, using precision long range shooters with thermals) yielded only occasional, insignificant results.
You must remove 70% of the swine population every year just to keep it level. Any less than that and the population grows rapidly.
The farmer used this smart trap program. After a few months, the population was noticeably reduced. He was catching 15 at a time. 2 years later, we only occasionally see a few pigs on our game cameras, rather than having herds tearing up roads and food plots. But -- you gotta stay on 'em until they're 100% eradicated. Smart traps work.
My east Texas buddies tell me the wild hog isn't worth eating as well. Claim very strong taste not unlike the smell of urine.
Perhaps the best smoke pork I ever had was a hind quarter from a small Ferrel hog killed by a cousin. It was really good meat. The law should allow you to shoot as many as you want with no license. Only stipulation is that you must take them with you and have the meat processed.
Hog Season officially opens after your sixth beer.
@4:47....Im a Texan. We've had these feral pigs for years and in uncontrollable numbers. Ive hunted them for many years....not from a deer stand, but at night, with spotlights, on ATVs, sometimes with dogs..and its the most fun you can have with your clothes on. I was the same way as your friends, until I went hunting with some veterinarians who had pitbulls with kevlar vests, night vision scopes...and gloves and hand sanitizer. They scared the crap out of me. Then I did some minimal research. 84 diseases. Cooking the meat does kill the pathogens. The meat still sucks...these pigs arent fat and corn fed. Think wild turkey versus Butterball. Still preferable to entomilk, cricket flour and mealworms. Just not a good idea to be putting skoal in your mouth or pickin' boogars with fresh feral pig blood on your hands is all Im saying.
I prefer to trap em and feed corn for a couple of weeks, they much cleaner and don’t taste like dirt.
In these traps that capture 15-20 at a time, then what? Are they shot. If they're then shot are they buried on the spot?
Hog season is 24/7/365.
3:14 PM, that's funny coming from what is almost surely a State fan!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Wild pigs are the best reason to tell your wife you need NV and thermals.
Just a tip if you trap hogs. Adding powdered Kool-Aid, Gatorade, etc. to the corn will make it much more attractive to hogs. And, of course, soak the corn in diesel if you have a problem with other critters eating it. We drag big hogs (80+ pounds into the woods for buzzards to eat, and keep the smaller ones for ourselves.
And 7:59, the diseases you list are why we cook the meat before consuming it.
"Anonymous Anonymous said...
Under used resource. A lot of hungry people could be fed with the meat from all of those nuisance animals
April 27, 2023 at 2:59 PM"
Welcome to the 2020s, now there are exactly zero folks hungry in the land of plenty. In fact, the poorest folks are the fattest, for the 10k years of recorded history, poor folks were skinny, that is not the case anymore.
All the way from 'the cave man' to Ernest T. Bass, some folks will eat anything that don't eat them first.
As a State fan, I'd like to mention the popularity of Crock-Pot-Possum in the Grove on game day up in Oxfart.
“Shut up and send me more pigs to kill” -Fury
Wild hogs are classified as nuisance animals in Mississippi. There's no designated season for wild hogs on the National Forests in Mississippi; however, wild hogs may be hunted during daylight hours with weapons legal to use for the hunting season open at the time.
https://www.mdwfp.com/wildlife-hunting/wild-hog-program/wild-hog-faqs/
"Anonymous Anonymous said...
In these traps that capture 15-20 at a time, then what? Are they shot. If they're then shot are they buried on the spot?
"April 28, 2023 at 5:37 AM
This depends. Most likely shoot them (or at least some of them) and drag to a spot were they will feed the critters of the forest. Some shoot them and process one or two. I've seen some folks load live hogs up and transport them (don't know if this is legal), but you'd better have a super strong pen/trap, cause they can and will get out. They can be buried but you'd need a back hoe or bucket on a tractor which many small time landowners don't have. From what i understand, if you get a trap from the state, they require you terminate all the trapped hogs.
https://www.dailyleader.com/2022/07/01/law-banning-transport-of-wild-hogs-goes-into-effect/
JACKSON — The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks announced that House Bill 1065 went into effect July 1, 2022. The bill bans the transport of wild hogs which had perviously been allowed under a permit system.
According to the bill, hunters may not release wild hogs from a device or vehicle unless it was into an enclosure for the purpose of slaughter.
State game and fish brought them in here in early 80s to create another species to hunt. You could get two sow and a boar (European). They started this stuff. I think they are fun to hunt and good to eat.
I encourage commissioner Gibson to let me drink my dairy milk how I want to drink it.
All his talk of small government and being a conservative and yet the state of Mississippi literally has laws telling me whether or not I can drink raw milk.
Absolutely insane that a government can tell me not to drink milk the way it has literally been drank for thousands of years.
No, 3:14, it's the Miss Mississippi State pageant.
I bet the people who say wild hogs are a danger to eat would not even agree that an armadillo makes good eating.
Speaking of state government rules and regulations, did you know that the regulations codified by MDWFP contain more words than our state constitution?
If ever there was an agency of government that gets off on rules, you have met it. It's even illegal to squat over a log to take a shit if that log is less than 14 inches in diameter and unless you have written permission to do so unless you're on your own land, not within sixteen feet of any creek, tributary or other waterway under constant flow.
The next page of the regulations addresses taking a shit within thirty feet of any nesting area of any game animal.
"State game and fish brought them in here in early 80s to create another species to hunt."
That's very interesting, and good to know. The old State Game and Fish Commission also were responsible for introducing Israeli Carp to the Delta region.
The claim (in 1960) was that the carp would eat various grasses, plankton, etc that was taking over some of the small Delta lakes.
Now we have 'flying carp' in every Delta oxbow. The carp, like the hogs, cannot be gotten rid of and are ruining fishing and skiing all the way from Tunica to Natchez. Thank you to that agency.
MDWFP is one of the worst examples of political patronage in the state, if not the worst. Wildlife decisions are made not by wildlife biologists, but a commission comprised of politically connected businessmen.
MDWFP has a private hunting club for its commissioners up in the Delta. It was formerly Rosedale State Park.
Big Ears won't look into it. He's too consumed by county clerks.
Mdwfp, the hat, and a few other good ol boys also attempted to sabotage the outdoor show at the fairgrounds. That backfired and they have failed miserably trying to do so!
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