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Planting starts today! Yipeee! Planting about 50 acres of summer annuals plus 20 acres of joint vetch and an 11 acre sunflower field. Big fun. The summer annual mix: 30 lbs cow peas 10 lbs lab lab 10 lbs mung beans 10 lbs sunflower 10 lbs buck wheat 3 lbs okra 2 lbs sunn hemp Notice no...

Great thread just catching up. Was just up towards your neighborhood hunting turkeys on Ashbrook Island on the ark. Ms. La border. Lots of gobbling but the birds were smarter than me. Your place is beautiful! ( Deer hammer my verbena!)

If the question is.." Are the glory days of hunting coming to an end " Ask this little buddy what he thinks. Louisiana---Sportsmans Paradise!

My orchards look same. Figs especially got hammered. same on fields . stunningly beautiful with crimson but spring green up in full bloom. Chance of rain starting tomorrow. Be very timely.

We did a control burn on about 50 acres yesterday. Went very well and with rain in next weeks forecast should turn lush green quickly.

They will definitely find it assuming the grass is such they can move thru it. Any small seed will work including sunflowers which would also help doves. Of course gotta be careful as dove season approaches for baiting laws etc.

BTW a quail biologist taught me that trick . Helps even out the giant swings in quail populations year to year.

Your gonna love my answer.... Put a seed spreader on the back of a sxs and drive down your roads and area around field your discussing broadcasting milo. This will help them overwinter into springing by broadcasting over a long distance keep them protected from predators. This is the best...

Short video showing various nutrition strategies with food plots. First time using drone. Fun but I still need practice.

We are having a little better luck down here. Course, I think the glory days of hunting are ...now!

Planting crabapples, jap persimmons, and pears

That suggests that everything from Ft. Collins to the gulf where any flooding takes place is exposed. Which would also hold true for waterways everywhere. Which also suggests when you couple water ways as a vector along with " particulate transfer ", hunters moving dead animal parts around, live...

Regarding reasons for the spread of CWD I offer the following that suggests there may be more to the story than we know. I grew up on a 8000 acre property in north east La. It is bordered on one side by the Ms. River which is over a mile wide at that point. Another border is Lake Yukatan which...

Mongolia is a fascinating place to hunt. Nomads. Marmot hunters. Superstitous people. Witch doctors. Camels Very old mountains so not nearly so strenuous as sheep hunting N.America. The largest sheep in the world. Ibex in the Gobi desert. A bazillion square miles without a road. All a very wild...

You asked... It was about 35 years ago my girlfriend and I were hunting Zimbabwe on a rather large concession. We were driving thru a valley in an open air jeep with the PH and a couple trackers when they spotted smoke coming from below. A camp fire. After a brief huddle they told us not to...