Thanks JakeHofer for the great job interviewing my father about our farm journey…
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-land-podcast-the-pursuit-of/id1572511098?i=1000650376790
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Great haul, Skip! Love seeing the kids getting involved!
Re: deadheads— we found one that was on our hitlist last year. Prob 5yo. Part of the game.
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I’ve had good success with spraying Gly when brome is 6-9” after spring greenup to release the seed bank. Gonna be doing it within next two weeks.
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This year, we put out 4 mineral spots on our 400 acres. We used Skips formulae — 8% phosphorus (2 50 lb bags of Purina), ~30lbs dry molasses mixed plus some garlic. We put them in flat plastic tubs in high deer traffic areas. The mix should have been nearly the same for each spot. Put it out on...
Awesome thread. Love being among like-minded. Before we bought our first family home, I did the math and financially, it would have been better for us to stay renting and invest the difference than “investing” in a house. BUT 2 kids in a 2 bd apartment 6 plex wasn’t going to make a happy home...
Fascinating Drop-Tine podcast as Jason interviewed a PA state rep covering lots of conservation related policy issues. Worth a listen.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drop-tine-podcast-official-deer-management-food-plot/id1338891894?i=1000642787112
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Great questions! I think you’ll find detailed answers to all these questions on this thread: https://iowawhitetail.com/community/threads/mineral-to-put-out-now….63677/
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And the big 8 from the first post left his headgear somewhere in the snow. Of course this pic is on the opposite side of the farm of the first pic. :-)
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Combined corn (~100ac of the 400ac farm). 1 acre of standing/mowed corn. They are hitting the radishes/brassicas hard in our foodplots. And we put out 5 small alfalfa bales for them. That seems like much less waste than rolling a big round bale down the hill. Plus we have a ton of hedge mineral...
With this cold spell, I’m seeing several new mature bucks that I haven’t seen before. I don’t recall this being the case in past years. Habitat and food work may finally be paying off! Hope they stick around for next year. :-)
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