Wildlife habitat imporvement methods and studies
How to Create Buck Bedding Areas Buck bedding areas are not created but can be enhanced. The most important factor in a buck bedding area is the location and position on the terrain. The second factor is solitude and freedom from hunting pressure and social pressure from other deer. You can’t make a buck bed …
How to Tell if There are Too Many Does on Your Property? If there are too many does on the property, you will see overbrowsing of available food sources. Either food must be increased or deer numbers must be reduced. Every hunter knows that harvesting does is an important part of good deer management. But, …
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Attracting and Holding Deer on Your Property A common problem with hunting landowners is they often fail to attract and hold deer on the property for observation and hunting. Everyone wants more deer on their hunting land but not everyone knows how to create a place that will hold deer. I will break down the …
Food Plot Soil Health Today I would like to write about soil health. Everyone knows we have to lime and fertilize our food plots, but why? When? How much? How often? Once you have your food plot soil corrected in terms of pH and fertility and plant and animal communities working correctly in the soil, …
Recently, the question came up from a couple of clients and information seekers about what to plant in summer food plots now that its hot and too late for clover. Although the past couple weeks have been great for clover or just about anything you want to grow with consistent rain events and cool temps, …
Establishing Food Plots in the Summer for Winter Cover Read More »
Just as hard liquor is better when mixed, cover crop seed is better when combined into a diverse mixture of plants that benefit the soil and the wildlife and maximize the biomass being produced about ground as well as the biomass of bacteria and fungi below ground. Year round food plots require multiple crops and …
Soil Test Report: PH is the Most Important Characteristic to get Right I recently received a message from a client who, after sending in his food plot soil test and getting the result was asking me to get him a delivery of lime. He told me his test came back with a 6.2 pH, close …
Food Plot Soil Amendments – How to Interpret Soil Test Results Read More »
You want to have a food plot on your land but it doesn’t have any open ground or fields. Where do you start? First of all, your land is not farmland for a reason – nobody cleared it to farm because it wasn’t suitable for farming. The early settlers where adept at locating soil that …
A site visit to the NY property revealed a rare problem, that is, too much rain. Never thought I would be complaining about too much rain, but we have fields now that are waterlogged and plants suffering from lack of air. There is a lot of yellowing in some fields and the neighbor’s corn is …
Update on Spring Plantings and Last Year’s Habitat Work Read More »
Recently, I have had a couple of landowners ask me what to plant now that it is June and they haven’t planted their food plots yet. Now that summer is well underway and we can get some very hot, dry conditions, it is too late to plant tender perennials like Ladino Clover. Although the past …
