Baiting is the direct or indirect placing, exposing, depositing, distributing, or scattering of salt, grain, or other feed that could lure or attract migratory game birds to, on, or over any areas where hunters are attempting to take them. A baited area is any area on which salt, grain, or other feed has been placed, exposed, deposited, distributed, or scattered, if that salt, grain, or feed could serve as a lure or attraction for migratory game birds. The 10-day rule recognizes that removing bait does not remove the lure created, and that doves will habitually still be attracted to the same area even after the bait is gone. A baited area remains off limits to hunting for 10 days after all salt, grain, or other feed has been completely removed. There is no set distance.
Court rulings vary depending on the circumstances.
Lands or areas where grain or feed has been distributed or scattered solely as the result of the manipulation of an agricultural crop or other feed on the land where grown. Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service recommendations for the planting of wildlife food plots. In States without official USDA recommendations for the planting of food plots, the seed must be planted in accordance with USDA guidelines for producing a crop. Lands planted as pasture improvements or for the purpose of grazing livestock. Standing or manipulated natural vegetation.