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An IPOD is an excellent gift along with other electonic gadgets you can add-on later. Even though alot of the farm equipment today has a stereo player the IPOD seems to be a hit in the field.
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We've been giving the same gift for several years now. One of the guy's in our group lives in Kansas, he raises all sorts of fruit bearing bushes and trees. He is a master jelly maker and puts up dozens of jars of jelly. I'm talk-in boysenberry, blackberry, raspberry, choke cherry, elderbarry, wild plumb well you get the idea.
He hands these out like candy, everyone asks about it when ever we talk to them through out the year. To the landowner they all save the mason jars and exchange them for full ones. This has brought more good will than you can believe, it's something personal and jogs people memories of times past when most people canned themselves and grandma always had the best jelly.
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My host landowner owns many hundreds of acres that I have free range on and he has about a hundred of it in Christmas trees. Around the first weekend of November I join him and his family and help to load about six-hundred trees to a truck on two flatbed tractor trailers. It's backbreaking work and it gets sap all over my hunting clothes but it is certainly worth it. He won't take money - he's refused it more than once but he's never turned me down when I put my work gloves on. They can always use some help with the "chores"
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A bit of farm work in exchange for hunting rights fosters some goodwill; gifts like food etc are good - especially if there is some specialty you have access to that you can offer. Handmade or otherwise unobtainable commercially is good.
One place I get to semi-regularly in the semi-arid west of NSW has some trees with amazing and beautiful timber (mulga, gidgee, bullock bush etc); I took some branches and trunks one year, and returned the next with a stool fashioned by hand with adze, drawknives, spokeshave, auger etc.
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There are several different private farms that I hunt - some of them owned by family and most others are close enough to be (or closer than) family.
I always make it a point to help out on any farm work or projects that arise when I'm available or around. Sometimes I help put up hay, I've put up cattle when they've torn down fences and said landowner was out of town, I've run equipment and cleaned up fields.
One dairy farmer was having a bad pigeon problem in his free-stall barn. The pigeons were building nests in his fans which eventually caused the motors to burn up or ruined a blade and cost said farmer several hundred dollars a pop. I took care of a whole mess of pigeons for him and he hasn't had a problem since - good shooting too.
Also, I always make it a point to invite landowners to hunt with me if I know they do any hunting at all. Some guys just like to watch the dogs work.
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