Mississippi 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) is offering a cost share opportunity to Mississippi private land managers that are battling wild hogs on their property. The cost-share opportunity was made possible by a time-limited, federal appropriation to MDAC for expansion and support for its Wild Hog Control Program. The most effective equipment used for the trapping of wild hogs will be the focus of this effort to remove these nuisance animals from private lands across the state.
Through the cost share program, MDAC will provide technical guidance and monetary assistance for the most effective equipment and methods to trap wild hogs on private lands across Mississippi. “Our goal is to provide one complete, remotely triggered trap for applicants within limits of the federal appropriation,” said Commissioner Gipson. “This type of trap has been vital to the success of our existing Wild Hog Control Program which began in 2020. In addition to complete trap systems, trap components such as cameras, gates and panels will be eligible for funding.”
The cost share application period will remain open Monday, July 17, through Tuesday, August 15, 2023. Private landowners and leaseholders in Mississippi will be eligible to apply. Applications will be evaluated and ranked by MDAC based on property use, past and current wild hog damage, past trapping efforts and the type of trapping equipment requested. For selected applications, MDAC will reimburse the landowner or leaseholder for a percentage of the cost for purchasing trapping equipment. Reimbursement payments will be provided on a 50 percent cost share basis and will be the lessor of either 50 percent of the applicant’s expenditure or a maximum of $5,000.
Visit www.mdac.ms.gov/whcp/costshare to submit an application and to learn more about the cost share program.
22 comments:
how does cowboy Andy work a banner with his face on it for the Hog traps?
Traps are boring.
Hog control via helicopters, belt-feds, and nightvision would get a lot more participation.
This reduction in wild hogs will surely alleviate traffic conditions in Starkville.
You better believe Andy would call in the choppers if he could.
''cost share'' and ''federal appropriation ''...........all just fake terms for federal money .
mr andy just can't bring himself to admit that he's part of the 3nd world country called mississippi that does nothing except sit at the doorstep of washington d c and beg for money.
What happens to the hogs that are trapped?…killed?…eaten?…relocated?…deported?
Yawt Yawt will knock em in the head. If yall haven't watched his videos, Look him up on YouTube. He traps hogs in west point.
I said it before...claymores.
12:48 PM, look for a hog adoption event in the Fondren.
@2:05 PM - Wouldn’t doubt it…sounds plausible. This is 12:48 PM - I went to the website of MDHC and found that the trapped hogs must be killed, then either buried or processed.
This is funny because the same people (MWFP) who are spending all this state and federal money are the same ones who brought these pigs in early 80’s to create a new hunting option. They would give you two sows and a bore to release on your property.
MS feral hogs are too diseased to touch.
" (MWFP) who are spending all this state and federal money are the same ones who brought these pigs in early 80's to create a new hunting option. "
???
Well, that's something I've never heard.
Any sources to back that up ?
I've always heard the current hog problem is a cross between escaped domestic hogs that bred with the offspring of Hernando de Soto's hogs that escaped during his 1540's road trip through the magnolia state.
It does no good to waste this money when the feds will not trap the hogs on their land. This is a complete and total waste of time and money.
Pigs are smart. Can the Ag Commisioner teach them to eat Kudzu?
Old (MS & AL) story is traveling salesman walked a long dirt road up to the farmer's place, and saw a pitiful pig pulling itself along with two front legs, it's back legs missing.
Asked the farmer about the pig and farmer exclaimed as how the pig saved his son from drowning and, later, dove deep into mud to dig his tractor out. Said most gracious unselfish pig ever lived.
Salesman pleaded, but why'd he lose his back legs? Farmer says I only smoked two hams off that hero , you just don't eat a pig like that all at oncet!
https://www.ms-sportsman.com/hunting/hog-hunting/mdwfp-officers-bust-wild-hog-ring-arrest-four/
Why only this trap?
The pig brig is a much cheaper and better trap, and you don’t have to get up at night to see when to trigger.
What happened to the four arrested for importing and selling wild hogs?
Did they get the catch and release treatment?
"Anonymous said...
Why only this trap?
The pig brig is a much cheaper and better trap, and you don’t have to get up at night to see when to trigger.
July 12, 2023 at 10:12 PM"
I checked that out, will it hold up? Every video I've seen is of hogs going crazy when someone drives up, those hogs seemed pretty calm.
We participated in this program last year. An agent dropped off a pig brig trap that sat all summer and only caught one pig. We typically catch 40-50 per summer in homemade cage traps. If you participate in the program the agent will not allow you to use your own traps and then tries to sell you the trap that they used on your property.
12:29 - Especially on Sorority Row.
Wild Hog control, like the control of flying carp, is the bailiwick of the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. The Department has sponsored the influx of BOTH, yet gives not a rat's ass about the eradication of either.
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