Doves are easily attracted by planting grain crops in a field that has been plowed, disked and then scattered with seed. Wheat aerially seeded on cotton and soybean fields before harvest is a normal agricultural operation. Doves may be hunted over an area like this. It is not a normal agricultural operation to seed the same field repeatedly, to concentrate wheat in long rows, or to pile wheat on the field. The harvest of grain crops such as corn, wheat, milo, sorghum, millet, sunflower and buckwheat also attracts doves.
Seeds become available when they fall to the ground during harvest.
Mourning doves gather in these fields in large numbers. This is considered legal for dove hunting, if it is carried out as a part of a normal agricultural operation. Hogging Down . A third practice that makes grain available to doves is allowing livestock into the field to feed on harvested or unharvested grain, often sorghum or corn. Dove hunting over a hogged down field is legal.