I'm a member of AGR fraternity and all the brothers talk about is the price of corn and beans and beef. Trying to encourage them to farm less ground is hard when they all have big bills to pay for seed and fertilizer etc. But I do my best to convince them to keep the fence rows in place and to conserve the soil and to avoid erosion. The county agents are out there talking to farmers all the time.

I'm doing what I can personally by trying to kill coyotes which are a major predator of quail, rabbits as well as mice and voles. So Coyotes are sort of good and bad. Good that they eat a lot of mice and vots and bad that they eat a lot of rabbits and other small game and game birds. Not to mention young fawns of the White Tail Deer.

My major at Purdue was Conservation of Natural Resources and Environmental Science. So my professional training is geared towards studying the environment. I at one time though about going into wildlife bilogy and took a lot of wildlife bilogy classes my Senior years. I met the current IDNR Fish and Wildlife Director in one of those classes. We had two different classes together my senior year. He like to hunt Deer and Turkey and bought a small farm where he plans on retiring to some day after he's finished working with IDNR. He said he has a few more things he would like to work on before he leaves IDNR. So we have the right professionals in the Fish and Wildlife Agency. We just need to convince the Governor and the State Legislatures to spend more money on Fish and Wildlife Activities in the state. Purdue does a good job helping the farmers in this State.