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HI All - unfortunately I may be in the market next year to sell my place in Van Buren Co.....100 acres of probably 40% timber, 40% native grasses and then a small hay field as well as a pond. Just curious if you all have experiences selling property and what the best balance of cost/time is...

Haven't ever focused on hunting turkeys in the spring, always had other work and kids activities get in the way but this year my sons really want to go and we have been watching videos etc to sort of "have a clue" when we go out. Our place to hunt is in southern Iowa and we are up in the QC so...

Hi All - spent a few days hunting and am concerned with the amount of prickly ash in my understory(always thinking of the work ahead I guess). it is downright thick in my main section of timber. I mowed some paths the last two summers and I don't think that helped since they seemed to sucker...

My wife and I visited a lawyer recently to update our will and establish a "trust" where we are putting our land/house into this trust to avoid probate later. As part of the questioning from our lawyer with regards to "what if" type questions, he asked what we would like to happen with our...

Hi All - I have been doing some cutting of ironwood/shingle oaks recently(and over the years) and I routinely get beat down by putting down my herbicide(usually tordon rtu) running the chainsaw then having to put down the saw and grab the herbicide for application. Do any of you have some kind...

I am very hesitant to post this question after seeing some replies to a thread back in August...so please be gentle with me :o I am a landowner of just under 100 acres. I do not farm the land, but I have done TSI, planted large areas of CRP (but I am not getting any income or enrolled in...

Hi All....I let a few acres of pasture "go" when I bought my place years ago. It turns out these two areas are all shingle oaks and it is very dense and almost impossible for me/deer to walk through. Most of the trees are 1-6" diameter and 8-20 feet tall I'd guess. I left the shingles go just...

Hi All, a friend of mine at work hunts coon at night with flashlights scanning the trees. He does well and it sounds like a good time. He hunts on the IL side and I looked into the regulations on the Iowa side and I saw that you are allowed to hunt with the aid of a light "with dogs". Does...

Hi All, a friend of mine at work has land on the IL side and walks the woods with lights shining for coon and takes them that way out of trees. It sounds like a lot of fun and he does well. I see in the IA regs that you can use hand held lights when hunting with dogs for coon. The last part...

Hi all, as a weekender to my farm I am on about the third year of rotations on three different plots on my land using information from Dbltre's thread which has been a lifesaver. I have a question I am unsure of. Last year was my first planting brassicas and I followed it up with berseem clover...

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/no-kidding-these-goats-are-for-hire-b9918099z1-209022451.html?ipad=y Cool little business this guy has, would be interested if anyone knows of a business like that in Iowa?

Hi All. After being in my woods(southeast IA) recenlty on stand, I realized how many undesireable trees I have in the understory. It is getting pretty thick and doesn't offer much in the way of shooting alleys at all. I have looked on the IA State tree identification website to try and find...

Hello all-I have 35 acres of timber in 2 tracts. One tract has a large portion in hickory. Smaller sized maybe 5-10 inches diameter with some larger ones. I have an infestation of prickly ash in some of those areas. Have any of you had luck with getting rid of pr ash? I have some tordon rtu and...

I have some acreage in SE Iowa(I grew up hunting in WI) and am new to the honey locust "problem". I have 50/50 timber and grassland. I have many(very many) small locust trees all over the grassland(cattle grazed the property for years before I purchased). The trees are under an inch in...

Anybody have an idea(when looking at this years Iowa Deer regulations) why someone who choses early muzzleloader statewide license cannot hunt shotgun 1 or 2? The regulations seem to force the early muzzleloader to buy a bow to fill the other tags? I was hoping to hunt early muzzleloader and...

A legal question to ask of you all: I am seeing alot of coyote activity in our area (screaming at night and chasing turkeys during the day) so I was going to go out in the woods with a rifle to try to get one or two. If I do this during shotgun or late muzzleloader, am I breaking the law by...

Howdy - I am looking for a shooting range to sight in a muzzleloader(new to the muzzleloader scene and relatively new to the Quad Cities). Are there shooting ranges between or in the Quad Cities and Mt. Pleasant? I can't seem to find one that has all the right stuff to sight in a rifle. I...