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I guess I’m not following………. There’s left over tags because there was that many people “abusing” the “partying hunting” and so therefor now those same people don’t want to come buy a 500$ doe tag because in reality it was a 500$ neighbor, friend of a friend, Betty sue up the road, Tom from...

The 5-6 year wait in for archery tag. The issue lies the guys who abuse the doe tag loop hole during gun season. Those guys own ground, and then every member of their family will put in to draw, children, wife’s, grandmas, you name it. One draws and the rest buy doe tags. The farmer Joe blow...

I think Iowa tightening up our rules and regulations regarding non resident loop holes is a far better potential to see rec land prices fall, vs EHD. Like others have said, our hunting even at its worse is far better than majority of places in the United States. Historically my area is...

You’re not accounting for EHD. There’s years where counties have seen 50% of their deer killed off. Yet the deer harvests #’s don’t decrease? Meaning more of your mature deer are getting killed. Same thing with turkeys and same thing with waterfowl. Banding data showed record number of...

Follow the money. The only people saying the numbers are falling are entities that rely on hunters for an income. Government Agencies Outdoor magazines Social media “Professional hunters” Etc.etc.etc These examples depend on X amount of money coming in. At no time is anyone going to...

I think the disconnect is $$$$$

More and more hunters. Large parcels being split in half, therefor same acres with double the pressure. Less guys on the same page as guys like us (hunting mature animals) social media giving guys atta boys for shooting 110” deer. EHD. High predation, seems to be more disease running around...

I’ve got roughly 5000 acres of rye on the books to get drilled this fall. I’m watching an applicator run as I type this. We’ll be doing this until winter shuts us down or we get it all finished which ever comes first.

Congrats Skip! Absolutely wild deer!

It’s getting really bad last couple days. I found 4 on one farm in southern Warren county. Have noticed significantly more buzzards flying around, less deer on camera. Fixing to be a crappy fall if this weather doesn’t change and change fast. I know guys in Dallas county getting slammed too.

I do it for waterfowl hunting. Started it about 10 years ago just to keep tract of trends with movements and weather for my own personal keeping. Wish I would have started it 10 years before that. Cool to look back on and connect dots. I would definitely suggest doing it.

I think we as hunters are part of this equation by fear factoring one and other. Think about how many trail cameras each of you run today compared to 5 or even 10 years ago. Take that times the number of hunters in Iowa and that’s how many more trail cameras are being deployed. Throw in cell...

Yep that’s exactly what I’m seeing as well. Also side hills or very poor soil plots are showing just like this too. You going to throw some rye/oats down in to compensate? Or call it a year and it’ll be what it’ll be? I’m torn on wha to do. Felt like there’s enough food if the rain comes.

Agreed, southern Iowa needs to catch some rains at the end of this weeks. My plots are really showing some drought stress.

Where at are you in the Midwest? My clover got mowed today, southern Iowa. Good soil, plenty of moisture where this plot is; plus good couple chances end of next week. Deer prefer those fresh, tender shoots over seeded out, older plants. Just my opinion, but I don’t think it’s too late to...

But make sure you’re elaborating on the most important part of all this………..are you drilling your seed in or are you broadcasting on top, broadcasting on top and cultipacking……..all 3 of these will result in potentially different successes.

My career (agronomist) I help improve farmers profitabity and I do that on over 40,000 acres across several states; since it’s a competition here. I’ll post some pictures October 1st what my plots look like. Like I said, bad advice is bad advice anyway you look at it. Planting in dry soils...

Priorities I guess………. Plant now, with no rain will result in no growth, anyway you shake it. Relying on a pop up rain with today’s weather trends is just poor advice IMO. Birds will 100% hammer turnip/radish/rye/wheat seed.

I would disagree with anyone saying to plant now. How do you expect things to germinate? Morning dew ain’t going to cut it. Rain is the only hope. If you don’t get it, you’re feeding the birds. There is plenty of time as long as your soil prep work is done. I planted turnips in south...

It appears your phosphorus in these samples are your limiting factor here on the fertility side. Your samples P1 & P2 show those results. VH-very high, VL very low, L-Low, etc. P1 shows what’s available to the crop, P2 shows what’s in the total soil profile that was sampled. I would assume...