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Tips for Understanding Your Soil Sample

Tips for Understanding Your Soil Sample

Lime is the most overlooked tool in growing crops for wildlife.   Fertilizer and lime recommendations can be confusing. All the different printed numbers and suggestions can really make it difficult to understand what your soil and crops need in order to perform...
Planting a Soybean Food Plot

Planting a Soybean Food Plot

Good Planning Can Make the Most of Your Soybean Food Plot   Another deer season has come and gone. However, for a whitetail manager, the work for next season is just beginning. By this time, you should be wrapping up your dormant season fires and already have the...
What to Expect: Establishing Perennials

What to Expect: Establishing Perennials

Tips on establishing and maintaining perennials for maximum food plot performance.   Somewhere around 15 years ago I attempted to plant my first perennial food plot of clovers in the South. I guess I expected a big lush plot of clover to pop out of the ground in...
Food Plots: Prevention or Cure?

Food Plots: Prevention or Cure?

Weed competition—the number one problem in perennial food plots.   By this time of the year, most everyone’s hunting season is over or starting to wind down. Not many guys are thinking about growing plots or feeding their deer. With some nasty weather still...
Strip-Disking to Save Wildlife

Strip-Disking to Save Wildlife

Controlled burns and strip-disking during wintertime will mean better forbs and nesting areas later.   By now deer season has ended throughout the country. I hope you have that big buck at the taxidermist and you’re anxiously awaiting the opening of turkey...

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