11 bucks a bag? Wow, I'm glad I don't have to buy corn up there! I recall it being 8 or 9 at one point, though, down here. Hopefully, the ethanol thing is winding down.
You can get hog hunting access for a lot less than deer or exotics. Farmers or ranchers that are eaten up with hogs and just wanna make a little extra off 'em don't plant for the hogs, have a skinning house, have a bunk house. They'll lease to someone who'll day lease it for them for a lot less due to less overhead and, the way hogs take over and multiply, you can have good hunting even if the hogs aren't particularly catered to or managed for. Some of the hunting can be real good, too.
If you want a catered hunt and can afford it, you can go with all the amenities. If you're just looking for a place with hogs to hunt, you can find that, too. That's why I say shop around. Most of the catered places have web sites and come up in search engines. Many of the lesser managed places just advertise in the local papers or maybe a near by big city paper. Some of them can be really good hunting, too, due to hog population dynamics and especially if there are grain fields about. You can find good hog hunting for 50-100 a day if you look real hard, no kill fees, no limits, take all ya want and can. Still not free, but the taxes on that land and the cost of farming it necessitate it being a business, as any ranch or farm is. You capitalize on any resource if you wanna make money on a farm. Heck, I've paid 400 a year just to shoot doves and geese on a 700 acre farm, before. Leasing is a way of life here, just the way it is, and as demand rises, so to prices because there is a limited supply. I might not like it, being a consumer of hunting, not a provider, but I understand it. It was, for a time, a lot cheaper to drive to New Mexico and hunt mulies in the mountains than get a less than stellar whitetail lease around here. Costs of both have gone up and my income has gone down, but I will do New Mexico again in the future. I'm not dead, yet.
