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My son recently found a dead buck while shed hunting that we were pretty sure was laying out there somewhere, as he has been a regular for a couple of years at least and then just went AWOL sometime in August I believe, maybe Sept. We were pretty sure that he was one of our EHD casualties and...

I am strongly considering getting a different NT drill this year and I am curious what input people here would have. I currently have a pull behind drill that has been mostly adequate, but I am thinking that I want a 3PT model. My tractors are in the 40HP range and therefore I think I would be...

The good news is that my son Mark got our #1 target buck this morning. A big bodied, modest racked 7 year old. He was the true definition of a "bully buck". He saw him two separate times this morning as he was prowling for does. Mark also saw him with a doe last Sunday on our place and a...

Three separate neighbors reported finding dead deer around water(ponds) on their places this past weekend. The carcasses were relatively fresh and all were does as I understand. One immediately across the road to the north of me, one more on the property north of him and then three on the...

All...just because this subject gets discussed here at times...from a recent Farm Bureau publication (Spokesman), refer to the snippet below regarding land ownership in Iowa. "As Iowa’s farmland owners continue to age, other trends in land ownership have emerged, according to an Iowa State...

I was marking trees this past weekend for an upcoming timber harvest and I had a couple of trees like the one shown below. Because I prefer to keep a fair number of white oaks, I am only taking white oaks where I have others nearby that are also either mature now OR 2/3 of the way there. The...

All - I am planning on having at least some part of my timber logged sometime relatively soon. If I could describe it in general, I would say that I have plenty of hickory, mostly shagbark, some pig hickory too, good amounts of white oak in some areas and fair amounts of red oaks in other...

In the front yard of the next door neighbor to my son's rental house in Iowa City.

My son shot this one this morning after he came back a second time. He went through earlier and Mark let him walk, but after checking pics and with a neighbor he thought he should have cracked him. Oh well...but then he came back an hour later and got too close to resist.

Here's a scenario for the astute IW habitat dudes... Suppose a neighbor has a LOT of serecea lespedeza in one of their fields. The land borders mine, BUT, the field with the serecea does not. It is probably 1/2 mile away. I am not interested in this spreading to my place though and I am sure...

Within the last hour, at my place of business in the city limits of Iowa City...we had a legit BOBCAT in one of my warehouses! I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it myself! We had a guy working by himself in one of the back warehouses and he had the overhead door open while working up...

Realistically, there is probably only one deer that I am for sure to shoot tonight. A 7 or 8 old bully buck. I will crack a doe with this tag, but probably not tonight. But a pretty night, pretty windy that is.

I am on a bit of tree planting kick here lately. I planted 10 chestnuts a couple of weeks ago and will soon be planting 8 more pears. I have considered tossing a couple of crab apples into the mix, but am curious if I would be better off sticking with more conventional choices or if it would...

I just received my shipment of chestnut trees yesterday and I am going to plant them this weekend. What advice can anyone offer in terms of spacing, best locations to plant, etc? I have an area in mind that has some slope to it, but it is well positioned in the middle of my farm. I think I...

Both of my sons have purchased new houses somewhat recently and due to associated remodeling or new construction activities on each property, they will have large areas of their yards in bare dirt. I happened to think that I might use my tractor and tiller and plant a mix of rye grain and grass...

I have been doing my annual spring food plot dance that is always replete with new and interesting ways for something to break and/or fail...and now this. I have been drilling beans into corn stubble lately and when I returned to the farm yesterday to continue the effort I found three flat...

Short story, I plan on using a pre-emergent for beans this year, first time for me on that front. But, the chemical is out of stock at the moment, supposed to get some more in Tues/Wed next week. Do I dare drill beans in tomorrow and then follow with the pre-emergent spray next weekend? There...

I believe this idea has been discussed somewhat here in years past, but I really thinking hard about installing a bridge or two on my farm. Short story, I a couple of areas where the ditches are DEEP and STEEP and while the deer will cross through there, it isn't as often as I think it should...

Primarily so I can purchase and apply atrazine, I would like to get my RUP license. Does anyone have any advice or experience on that? TIA

Just returned from a trout fishing excursion out west, Oregon, and I had excellent action and caught many true wild stream trout.