What Does it Cost to Install and Maintain a Food Plot? What a disastrous food plot year, with planting problems and record-breaking rainfall (who would have thought we would complain about too much rain.) After a particularly hard day of tractor work, trying to fix a failed plot, I turned to one of my clients …
What can a landowner do to get professional help to manage timber and improve wildlife habitat on their property without breaking the bank? Professional help is out there for very low cost with government programs. One of these is the Conservation Activity Plan through the NRCS. The CAP 106 Plans that I write are are …
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How to Fix a Failed Food Plot – What to do When Your Food Plot Sucks Every time i plant a food plot, I picture in my head what it will look like – amber waves of grain and lush forage with lots of great chow with dozens of deer feeding in the green field. …
There are a lot of questions and comments about liming soil and how best to correct pH. Some folks feel that pelletized lime is best, some say ag lime is the way to go. There are liquid products sold in jugs to spray on your plots. I think there is a lot of misinformation out …
How to Buy Hunting Land If you are like me, and had to hunt on public land all your life and your are ready to buy a hunting tract for yourself, this article will give you some advice on how to buy hunting land. If you are a serious hunter and are sick of crowded …
Wildlife Habitat Improvements on Small Properties I sometimes have requests to make wildlife habitat improvements on small properties. Some are wooded tracts in a large woods with lots of subdivided tracts around them. Some are grown over abandoned small farms or even cultivated fields of corn and beans. I’d rather have a small overgrown farm …
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The Forestry profession has done a very poor job of public outreach. Many Landowners do not know what a Forester does for them and some don’t know they exist. My graduate thesis studied Landower attitudes toward forest management in general and the Forestry profession. I sent a questionnaire out to 500 NIPF Landowners. NIPF is …
Cover Crop Cocktails for Food Plots Why multi species cover crops make great food plots Whenever I suggest multiple species plantings for food plots I often get the argument that a crop will grow better individually. That is true when we want to maximize production of cash crops, but what is the goal here? We …
The Best Spring Food Plots for Deer and Turkeys I was looking at the shiny bags in the store the other day and was amazed at the marketing effort, obviously successful, targeting hunters who want magic bag of beans to attract deer to their property. I picked up a bag of Monster, Super Giant Buck, …
Tick Bites and Disease Ticks and tick borne diseases…its not just Lyme Disease anymore. Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Powassin Virus, Erlichiosis and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever are all existing in ticks in the Mid Atlantic states. But that’s not all. There is a good pdf available from the CDC about all the diseases they recognize and what …
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