URBANA, Ill. (WAND) — A local conservationist group will be distributing free seed for wildlife habitat plantings to Champaign County landowners this month.
The Champaign County Chapter of Pheasants Forever (CCPF) will be offering sorghum and sunflower seed for food plots, grasses for nesting and winter cover, and forbs (wildflowers) which benefit pollinating insects. CCPF Habitat Chair Bruce Stikkers will be available to offer advice about which species to plant.
The distribution will take place in the Illini FS parking lot, 1509 E. University Ave., Urbana on Saturday, April 19, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Attendees should look for the white CCFP trailer.
Food plot seed is available free to all Champaign County landowners. Other seed will be provided free for plantings of up to five acres, to landowners who do not participate in USDA conservation programs. For plantings of more than five acres, the degree of cost-sharing for grass and legume seed will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
Those enrolled in USDA conservation programs are not eligible since those programs reimburse owners for most of the seed cost. However, the chapter does provide free use of planting equipment.
If you cannot attend the seed distribution event, but would like to arrange to obtain seed, contact CCPF Habitat Chair Bruce Stikkers at 760-793-5825 or bjstikkers@sbcglobal.net.
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