Is it really necessary? I mean you planted the seed, you have gotten timely rains, the plants seem to be growing well enough. So is it worth the extra time and money to fertilize your food plots? First off have you done a soil test recently? Did the results of that soil test indicate that you had sufficient fertility levels to produce a crop at a high level? Is the pH of your food plot soil in a range that will allow for easy uptake of those nutrients by your crop? Scientific

With insane land prices many of us cannot buy large tracts of land for merely recreational purposes. Even if we can, isn't it still a positive to make some income off of that land? While timbered areas can provide logging opportunities, grasslands provide income most often from grazing or haying. Depending on the topography and our available resources to either put up our own hay or finding someone in our immediate area to hire to put up hay, grazing may provide a less costly

In the last blog I touched on the value of shrubs as a food source for White-tailed deer, I will continue on with the shrub theme this week. Dormant shrubs provide most of a deer's browse in the Winter months, especially in non-Ag areas. Shrubs also benefit other wildlife besides deer. Shrubs go well beyond being beneficial for just deer. Shrubs when strategically planted can be a big boost to turkey populations. Obviously, turkeys will eat some of the berries produced by shr

This is about the time of year we start noticing bucks dropping their antlers. Some may have dropped their antlers quite some time ago. If a buck dropped his antlers a good while back, especially a large mature buck, that could be sign of poor body condition, high stress levels or injury. Antlers are secondary to a buck's overall body condition. In the previous blog I talked about "Maternal Effect", in a sense antlers are an indication of a bucks overall quality of health. Do

Maternal effect has a big role in just how big those antlers will be on that mature buck

Does trapping pay? I am not talking about in terms of dollars and cents. There are two camps when it comes to trapping predators. Those...

While all living creatures need water to some degree should you bother with including water sources on your habitat plan? I say yes. Just...

In the last blog I talked about food sources, both native and man-made (food plots) and considerations to take into account regarding lay...