Stuttgart, Arkansas
Duck Capital of the World
MONSANTO FARM AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT CENTER
Welcome to the Monsanto Farm and Wildlife Management Center. Located a few miles south of Stuttgart, Arkansas, “The Rice and Duck Capital of the World,” this 3000-acre, working farm offers outstanding duck hunting, fishing and, wildlife watching along with, food, lodging and fellowship.
Enjoy a guided duck hunt each morning in flooded green timber in the heart of the Arkansas Grand Prairie. Relax in the afternoon or take advantage of numerous activities in and around Stuttgart. Hearty meals and comfortable lodging are part of the experience.
What to Bring
Bring your camera, shotgun, ammunition with steel shot, hunting clothes and personal items. For those who need them, the Farm and Wildlife Management Center can provide Arkansas hunting licenses, Arkansas duck stamps, federal duck stamps and waders.
Hunting, Meals and Lodging
Plan to arrive between 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. A light dinner will be served and hunting licenses will be processed after dinner. Every hunting guest must attend a short safety briefing.
Guests must adhere to all state and federal hunting and fishing regulations.
The first hunting day will begin with breakfast at 5:30 a.m. followed by a trip to the blind with your guide. After the morning hunt (Farm and Wildlife Management Center guests hunt only in the mornings; waterfowl are not disturbed in the afternoons), harvested ducks will be cleaned while hunters relax prior to a noon lunch. Relaxed afternoons can be spent in the meeting facility which offers pool, games, television and other amenities. Alternatively, visitors can find numerous interesting activities in and around Stuttgart. Dinner, prepared by local cooks, is served at 6:00 p.m. Your host will assign rooms in the main building or annex. Sheets and towels are provided. Visitors should bring their personal items. The second day’s hunt will end at 11:00 a.m.
Be sure to bring a cooler to take your dressed and frozen ducks home.
History
The original owners envisioned that the farm, with its 250 acres of surface water and 950 acres of floodable green timber, would be a duck hunting paradise on the lower Mississippi flyway. Subsequent owners built a hunting lodge. Out buildings were added and the site became a working farm that produces rice, soybeans and wheat. The Monsanto Company acquired the farm when it purchased the Hartz Seed Company in 1985.
Research and educational partnerships, along with wildlife management collaborations, form the foundation of the Monsanto Farm and Wildlife Management Center. Visitors may examine agronomic research and demonstration areas that include:
Continuous conservation tillage with Roundup Ready® soybeans, Roundup Ready corn and YieldGard® corn Bollgard®‚ with Roundup Ready cotton Innovative rice and wheat production systems Walking and riding tours provide opportunities to view the interface between agricultural production and natural resource management. Monsanto Farm and
Wildlife Management Center visitors observe forest and wildlife management techniques that include:
Prairie restoration
Moist soil units for waterfowl Supplemental food plots for deer, dove, turkey and non-game species
Wildlife woodlot
There are also ample opportunities to observe and photograph abundant and diverse wildlife populations that include songbirds, ducks, geese, deer, squirrels, reptiles and other species. Waterfowl hunting in the flooded timber and fishing in the farm’s reservoirs are excellent.
Meeting Facility
Today, the hunting lodge functions as a meeting facility that can sleep 24 guests comfortably and meals can be prepared on site. Audiovisual equipment and internet access is available.
Agricultural and Natural Resource Management
The Monsanto Farm and Wildlife Management Center is demonstrating that agricultural, forestry and wildlife enterprises can be integrated profitably on rural landscapes in a way that conserves water, preserves water quality, enhances wildlife resources, encourages biodiversity and fosters economic development.
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Enjoy a guided duck hunt each morning in flooded green timber in the heart of the Arkansas Grand Prairie. Relax in the afternoon or take advantage of numerous activities in and around Stuttgart. Hearty meals and comfortable lodging are part of the experience.
What to Bring
Bring your camera, shotgun, ammunition with steel shot, hunting clothes and personal items. For those who need them, the Farm and Wildlife Management Center can provide Arkansas hunting licenses, Arkansas duck stamps, federal duck stamps and waders.
Hunting, Meals and Lodging
Plan to arrive between 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. A light dinner will be served and hunting licenses will be processed after dinner. Every hunting guest must attend a short safety briefing.
Guests must adhere to all state and federal hunting and fishing regulations.
The first hunting day will begin with breakfast at 5:30 a.m. followed by a trip to the blind with your guide. After the morning hunt (Farm and Wildlife Management Center guests hunt only in the mornings; waterfowl are not disturbed in the afternoons), harvested ducks will be cleaned while hunters relax prior to a noon lunch. Relaxed afternoons can be spent in the meeting facility which offers pool, games, television and other amenities. Alternatively, visitors can find numerous interesting activities in and around Stuttgart. Dinner, prepared by local cooks, is served at 6:00 p.m. Your host will assign rooms in the main building or annex. Sheets and towels are provided. Visitors should bring their personal items. The second day’s hunt will end at 11:00 a.m.
Be sure to bring a cooler to take your dressed and frozen ducks home.
History
The original owners envisioned that the farm, with its 250 acres of surface water and 950 acres of floodable green timber, would be a duck hunting paradise on the lower Mississippi flyway. Subsequent owners built a hunting lodge. Out buildings were added and the site became a working farm that produces rice, soybeans and wheat. The Monsanto Company acquired the farm when it purchased the Hartz Seed Company in 1985.
Research and educational partnerships, along with wildlife management collaborations, form the foundation of the Monsanto Farm and Wildlife Management Center. Visitors may examine agronomic research and demonstration areas that include:
Continuous conservation tillage with Roundup Ready® soybeans, Roundup Ready corn and YieldGard® corn Bollgard®‚ with Roundup Ready cotton Innovative rice and wheat production systems Walking and riding tours provide opportunities to view the interface between agricultural production and natural resource management. Monsanto Farm and
Wildlife Management Center visitors observe forest and wildlife management techniques that include:
Prairie restoration
Moist soil units for waterfowl Supplemental food plots for deer, dove, turkey and non-game species
Wildlife woodlot
There are also ample opportunities to observe and photograph abundant and diverse wildlife populations that include songbirds, ducks, geese, deer, squirrels, reptiles and other species. Waterfowl hunting in the flooded timber and fishing in the farm’s reservoirs are excellent.
Meeting Facility
Today, the hunting lodge functions as a meeting facility that can sleep 24 guests comfortably and meals can be prepared on site. Audiovisual equipment and internet access is available.
Agricultural and Natural Resource Management
The Monsanto Farm and Wildlife Management Center is demonstrating that agricultural, forestry and wildlife enterprises can be integrated profitably on rural landscapes in a way that conserves water, preserves water quality, enhances wildlife resources, encourages biodiversity and fosters economic development.
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Horntagger's - First Waterfowl Hunt. January, 29th & 30th 2005
First and foremost I would like to thank the people from Monsanto Farm and Wildlife Management Center and the National Wild Turkey Federation that made this one of the best times I have had in a long time. From the Hosts, Guides, and Cooks by far you will always stand out as the most professional and courteous individuals I have met.
I would also like to thank the follow individuals for helping out and teaching me a few things along the way about duck and goose hunting.
Dr. James Earl Kennamer, Joel Pedersen, Jay Jordan, Greg Boozer, Bryan Burhans, John Adkins, Dennis Daniel, John Burk, Kirby Brown, Allen Royer, Jake Hindman, Tom Hughes, Terry Little, Ralph Hale, Kem Zulhke, Bryan Young, Dave Wilson, Dwane Rambo, and Jimmy Dickson.
Thank you all to a few day's early birthday gift. I was a great time to the end.
I would also like to thank the follow individuals for helping out and teaching me a few things along the way about duck and goose hunting.
Dr. James Earl Kennamer, Joel Pedersen, Jay Jordan, Greg Boozer, Bryan Burhans, John Adkins, Dennis Daniel, John Burk, Kirby Brown, Allen Royer, Jake Hindman, Tom Hughes, Terry Little, Ralph Hale, Kem Zulhke, Bryan Young, Dave Wilson, Dwane Rambo, and Jimmy Dickson.
Thank you all to a few day's early birthday gift. I was a great time to the end.
Sunset on Waterfowl Hunt
As the sunsets on the final day of duck hunting season and my first waterfowl hunt. The words friendship, brotherhood and laughter come to mind. Do you remember the feeling you get and the smile that comes across you face when you and your closest hunting buddy’s share the tall tales, back at camp after the sun has set on the horizon? Do you remember the feeling you get when joking among your close friends about the arrow that you stuck in the tree right next to where the deer was standing? Well this also goes for Duck and Goose hunting I have now found out.
Hope to see you in the woods or on the water. Horntagger
Hope to see you in the woods or on the water. Horntagger
Mallard from this hunt