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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Forest Management for Private Landowners Forest management is usually an afterthought for private Landowners. People usually call me to do a timber sale when they need money for something. That’s fine, except for once, I would like someone to call me and say something like “I just inherited, purchased a tract of timberland and …
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Selling Timber – Why hiring a Consulting Forester in PA is a good move. A timber sale is something you should enter into with great care. Start by informing yourself – read this: Sometimes I read an article by one of my associates and It is so good I just need to re-post it. In …
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What to Plant in spring food plots Summer is right around the corner and with all the rain we’ve been having is making everything grow and green up in our spring food plots like crazy. If you are thinking about planting a new plot and wondering what to plant in your spring food plots, read …
The Farm Bill is a giant comprehensive federal government expenditure that funds a lot of programs including farm subsidies and food stamps. One of the broad categories is Conservation. This category funds soil protection, forestry and wildlife habitat through landscape level initiatives that address protection of major watersheds, as well as programs for individual landowners …
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I got a phone call from a client that hired me to clear stones and plant some food plots on a hunt club property. He was mad…weeds had taken over the food plots. When I went to take a look, big nasty thistles were all over the place. There were three causes for this: …
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, …
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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 …
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