Plant For Success

What are you planting into?nnI deal with clients every day that have a variety of challenges with their food plots. One of the biggest challenges is preplant soil prep. The average food plotter loves to spray herbicides. The common food plotter loves to till the soil....

Now what

You have your cool season food plots in and are waiting to plant your warm season crops, now what? So many food plotters are behind the 8 ball because they do not live near their property or perhaps life is busy. Once the seed is in the ground, you need to be thinking...

How Alive is Your Soil

nI have asked this question to my clients and the answer is usually that of confusion or unknown. In an industry where people are taught to take a soil sample, people are not taught how to effectively use those results. You go out to your plot; you take 10 different...

Building Healthy Soil

nBuilding Healthy SoilnMany food plotters focus on fall planted food plots. While these plots have their place for seeing deer and helping harvest deer, these plantings are for the now. Over 90% of food plots have imbalanced soils. They can be ether low or high on...

Clovers, Clovers, Wonderful Clovers

nOn a regular basis I see people recommend clovers as a food plot recommendation. The word clover is a very vague and general term. There are many different types of clovers. The common classes of perennial clovers include red clover, ladino clover and alsike clover....

The Ate What?

What do deer prefer to eat?nThis question gets asked on social media on occasion and asked of me several times throughout the year. If someone were following me around through out the year at my research properties or on property tours across the US, they would have...