What are people offering, if you know?
We had a lease in El Campo for $1,250/person for 10 hunters, and if needed we had to pay for more water. Land owner went through some family hardships and we actually met with him last year, but he kinda just vanished on me and I figured when we stopped returning phone calls and emails that I should just let sleeping dogs lie.
Had about a quarter section to hunt, of cut rice and fallow fields; and the farmer would work with us on throwing up small containment levees for hunt compartments, we provided diesel.
If I am way off on pricing, then I am; and I guess if every hunt club out there is beating the bushes trying to lease up the land, then so be it. But, I've had an amazing success story through TexAgs and maybe I'll get lucky again.
For anyone who is interested or may know of someone, I used to work for the biology side of things for Texas Ducks Unlimited and am still tied in with them well. For farmers, there are quite a few incentives out there, to work with hunters/DU if they farm rice, and I'm willing to put in the leg work and paperwork needed to help with that if that makes any difference; this can work out to be a few extra hundred dollars per acre they get back from DU.
