Ag Commish Andy Gipson issued the following statement.
Today,
Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy
Gipson announced that the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and
Commerce (MDAC) will be accepting applications for its Wild Hog Control
Program (WHCP) Monday, September 28,
through Monday, October 12.
Through
the WHCP, MDAC will provide “smart” wild hog traps to landowners and
managers for the control of wild hogs on private agricultural and
forestry lands
in Mississippi. Traps will be deployed in concentrated focal areas
across the state, which will be determined by MDAC through the
application process. MDAC will provide 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.
“We
are excited to offer the ‘smart’ traps to private landowners and
managers to help control invasive wild hogs on their property,” said
Commissioner
Gipson. “We have been in a test phase for the last month, and now we
are ready to offer the Wild Hog Control Program to the public. As part
of the program, our staff will work closely with participants to ensure
that they have the required knowledge and training
to successfully use the traps. This will be a great opportunity for
farmers, ranchers and landowners to use some of the best trapping
equipment available today.”
Submitted
applications will be evaluated based on the number of acres available
for trapping, historical agriculture losses caused by wild hogs 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 1,000 acres
is recommended, depending on landscape and land use.
Applications will be available for download at
mdac.ms.gov/whcp, and can be submitted by email or mail. If submitting by email, send applications
to MDAC’s Director of Federal and Environmental Affairs Chris McDonald at
chris@mdac.ms.gov. If submitting by mail, send applications to the Mississippi Department of Agriculture
and Commerce WHCP, 121 North Jefferson Street, Jackson MS 39201.
The
WHCP is the result of legislation passed during the 2020 Legislative
Session, which authorized Commissioner Gipson to operate programs to
fight nuisance wildlife species on private agricultural
and forestry lands. In Mississippi alone, wild hogs cause more than $60
million in damages annually. The WHCP will provide the equipment and
technical guidance needed to control wild hogs across the state. The
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation provided key
support to the program with the acquisition of additional traps that
will be deployed to help control wild hogs on private lands.
Visit
mdac.ms.gov/whcp for more information about the Wild Hog Control Program, program guidelines and
applications. Questions regarding the WHCP can be submitted to Chris McDonald at
chris@mdac.ms.gov.
35 comments:
Dear Andy: Please expedite our application and deliver 1 hog trap to the Visitor's Locker Room, Davis Wade Stadium, no later than 8 AM October 3rd. Swing Your Sword! ML
10:26, you'll just end up w/ a butt ugly idiot dog sitting in there
Some of the best pork I ever ate was a small hind quarter from a wild pig, smoked long and slow using hickory. Another memorable meal was wild pig sausage a friend made after a hunt. It is a shame there is no way to sell wild pork, cooked as smoked meat, or sausage.
The herd needs to be thinned somehow.
Zerobear
Dear Andy: If you loan me and my buddies of of them there tarps you all talking about we promise to have a great big bbq with them hogs what we catch in the tarp.
Fixin to have banjo music so send us one of them tarps.
I just got my NFA paperwork for a machine gun. I will be hunting full auto!
here's the real life version of what's going on.......and you guessed it, it's all about the money. a stinking administrative agency, in this case the ms dept of ag and commerce, that was created by the legislature, (BTW, administrative agencies are created by the legislature so politicans can hand out high paying, do nothing jobs) manages to secure a federal government GRANT through the department of agriculture located in the beautiful, historic, washington d c. you know , that town up east where the print all that money.
quick point..... a federal grant is free money, an the feds will ship that free money to the mississippi state department of agriculture.
grants are not loans, you dont have to pay them back.
at the receiving end of this free money pipeline here in the third world corruption and fraud capitol of the world , affectionately called mississippi, there will be dozens of corrupt state employees, private sub-contractors (you know, kinda like the new family, and the professional wrestler diabase ), already wealthy land owners and the usual assortment of SEC white trash pretty boy hustlerswho hold themselves out as wildlife management experts, waiting to pounce on it and start feeding at the trough............to coin a phrase.
12 months from now there will not have been enough pork trapped to make a jimmy dean sausage.
shad white will then be called upon to figure out where all the money went.
no different than that clown bill walker stealing millions from the dept of marine resources, chris epps plundering the dept of corrections, and the new family and the professional wrestler pillaging the dept of human services, which all came crumbling down back in february of 2020.
you want to control hogs for just pennies on the dollar with minimal government participation and minimal tax payer money? ...well its called a BOUNTY.....maybe you have heard of it. the same type of bounty that was at one time put on wolves, panthers, bears, foxes ,coyotes beavers, nutria, and any other invasive or nuciance wild life.
just turn this hog program over to good old free enterprise. but here , free enterprise seems to be a dirty word and a big dollar federal grant is a lot more sexy.
put this in you archive kingfish and run another article on this ''program'' in a couple of years and you will , once again, see just how much corruption exists in this stinking third world backwater of mississippi.
I bet your not brave enough to put your name on here. Mr. Know it all.
MDAC hog trapping will be as big of a hit as UMC in the gym business.
I’m just a dumb, no political clout taxpayer, but my question is why isn’t the Wildlife,Fisheries and Parks people involved in this? I get why the Ag Boss wants to maybe shoot some pigs and pose with the carcasses, but isn’t this more hunting than agriculture? Or have they’ve already combined everything under one expensive barn roof?
Gipson is bringing home the bacon, so to speak.
Why isn't there a bounty? What a scam.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought wild hogs could be harvested 24/7 365 without any permits.
A "smart trap" for a major threat to our farmers ?
What's the deal ?
11:28 AM made many good points.
I can only guess Commissioner Gipson wants to upgrade the piglet races to wild hog races.
Kind of like upgrading a racing venue from Busch to Winston Cup.
( Yep . . . that's old NASCAR speak ).
1:31 because the MDWFP wants to figure out how to make a dollar out of it and have limitations so they can write tickets for a nuisance animal. See their alligator program for example. If you read the fine print on the rules, if you have one minor violation(boat light, skunk hot beer in some compartment o of the boat) it is immediately subject to a class 1 violation. MDWFP is a money generator. What about all this public land they buy then make you purchase a several hundred dollar permit to hunt it....
1:31 - I'm not sure how to answer your inquiry, but, I can tell you MDWFP ain't done shit in twenty years to eliminate flying carp...and has done nothing to deal with wild hogs. But, they can allow Illinois fishermen to come down here crappie fishing every spring and haul off 600 pounds each of crappie filets to sell back home. And they can scout private hunts for governors and other dicknitaries'.
I've instituted a better program for only 100k payable to me in advance. Its titled "here's where the hogs are, come kill them"
to the wiseass at 12:35..........11:28 is foretelling the exact truth...............no signature required . you dont know much about how the government pig trough works , do you 12:35?
With the methane gas from all the hog shit, shouldn’t the Mississippi Energy Institute execs. be involved in this effort? It would give them something to actually do.
to 1:31...yes ..by definiton MDWPF should be involved with this , BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT. the point is what administrative agency can con the federal government out of millions of $ in grant money , so the department head can spread it around to his buddies.
@11:28...You describe the Federal Grant programs too well. It is always about the money, & most of it goes to someone's connected friends. A well connected businessman hosts hunts for the Commissioners & Wardens on his private Fenced Preserve. No one has said a word about the imported deer to improve his herd. Unfortunately it has also brought Chronic Wasting Disease to the area, where as the native population hadn't been exposed to it yet by natural migration. Some deer with CWD escaped the preserve & now it's showing up outside. The Commissioners know his herd was the 1st to have it, but the Dept Officials all got Trophy Bucks, exquisite meals cooked by the Preserves Full time Kitchen Staff & all the Alcohol desired, among other "things". The Preserve even received paid interns from state Universities....MS Politicians are cheap, the poorer the state, the cheaper the politicans.
The state needs to regulate like they do on snow geese. You call wildlife. They give you a “license” number. It cost the hunter nothing. Your only responsibility is to call the dept. telling them how many were killed and where. However, that appears to be too practical.
@ 727- Where's the money in that? if the fat cats can't get fed some way it's a non starter! Makes no difference if the citizens are paying the wild hog tax with all the damage the hogs cause to their property.
Attn 11:14 Meanwhile, hogs are multiplying at phenomenal rates, but MDWFP is raking in “license” money while farmers are having their crops devastated. Maybe if MDWFP is threatened with reduced funding, Mississippi can legislate ways farmers can reduce these crop losses.
"Chronic Wasting Disease "
(The Covid 19 for our Whitetail deer).
And yeah, I know CWD is a serious problem too . . .
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/2017/09/15/deer-linked-cwd-positive-facility-mississippi/669288001/
https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20180815d98
MDWFP IS the most useless administrative agency in this state. they have never done shit to preserve or enhance any wildlife. they have allowed both bobwhite quail and rabbits to be decimated by stinking fire ants , and have done nothing to preserve waterfowl habitat and hunting areas that once brought millions of waterfowl to mississippi during winter. its fucking disgraceful.
tell me ..................when was the last time anyone you knew went quail hunting other than shooting lame and tame birds on a stinking preserve?
September 24th 11:28 needs to head up a bounty program. I offer a bounty for each pig killed on my property in Madison Co. and it has worked well over the years. Just wished I could get neighbors to do the same. Wonder if the public will be told a true # of animals that are caught and in what areas. BOUNTY BOUNTY BOUNTY
8:04 is exactly right except for the fact that Phil Bryant was/is a well known quail hunter who frequents the 'Clip Wing Preserve' up in Winston County.
to 4:22.........i don't have any trouble believing that about bryant, however people who go to shooting preserves are ''shooters'' not ''hunters. ''
for many years i guided waterfowl hunters in louisiana along the arkansas border at a well known club. the worst customers we had were big time sporting clay and skeet shooters and people who routinely ''hunted '' on shooting preserves and high fence operations. they always fancied themselves as hunters, but the only thing they could consistently hunt up was the bar and the hot tub at the club house.
Dear Andy: Please cancel our order for a hog trap. We're sending you a platter of deep fried Cajun shrimp, and BBQ tiger steaks. We only need the Fisheries Dept to send over one small fishbowl, around Thanksgiving, for one Oxford Guppy. The Lame Train derailed in Game One, and we rolled over Coach O like the City of New Orleans. Condolences to Tiger Fans of the Cajun Navy, our own Pirate Rescue force.
Swing your Sword! And Pass the Margaritas!
ML
"MDWFP IS the most useless administrative agency in this state."
And many of their "game wardens" think they are they are equivalent to US Navy Seals.
Mandatory steroid tests should be administered weekly.
Hell, I'd rather deal with a young State Trooper, fresh from the MHP Academy.
BTW 11:43 AM,
The first weekend of SEC play does not define a season.
I can only hope that not TOO many Starkville farm animals were traumatized last night.
AT September 24, 2020 at 3:17 PM:
Here is how the MDWFP citation system works: It is the county where the citation is written that gets ALL OF THE FINE MONEY (for a Class 1 violation this is $2,000-$5,000) AND ALL OF THE COURT COSTS (several hundred dollars. MDWFP GETS ZERO. A talk with your local MDWFP Conservation Officer will confirm this.
September 24, 2020 at 11:28 AM:
The real version of what is going on is that free hog traps are available for request. The article says nothing about a grant program (think money) to the MDAC. Unfounded speculation and the blame game against any government entity makes fine banter but get your facts straight before posting. If you pick the phone and call the MDAC about this program you can confirm the accuracy of my post.
to 3:16...tell us ....where did MDAC get the money to buy all those expensive traps? did they find it in the backseat of a taxicab or did they have a bake sale?
At Sept. 29 at 6:49 pm
Call and ask MDAC
to 4:54...i tried that, .......noone answered the phone.
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