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As a buyer, I’ve struggled to get a realtor to consistently be responsive and helpful. Is it OK to call a listing agent for info but still use my own buyer’s agent as a representative on the purchase, understanding that I didn’t really occupy the listing agent’s time, other than for a couple of...

I picked up a used 2-row IH 800 planter several years ago. We primarily plant a dove field with it, sunflower, buckwheat, peas, sorghum. It has double offset disk openers and cuts a beautiful trench in my ground. I’ve always dealt with poor trench closure, though, and I’m not quite sure how to...

I was doing some pondering the other day and it dawned on me that you folks may be able to help. I have hunted a specific lease my whole life. One constant has been the lack of afternoon sightings. The property is virtually all hardwood timber. It’s selectively thinned every 8-10 years and it...

With all the talk of land values and changes in hunting quality, I’m curious about how much we’re all driven by the hopes of big antlers and how much big antlers drive the allocation of our time and money. I’ve been thinking a lot about how big deer move the land market or not. Based off of...

Has anyone used their iPhone for tractor guidance? A quick look tells me there are some apps out there. What I think would be really handy is an app that helps keep rows and spacing more consistent. From what I’ve seen of various iPhone apps that use gps, though, the iPhone gps is not accurate...

Hypothetically, if I wanted to do this, what is the most cost effective method? I have used a dozer on a couple separate occasions but didn’t feel like they were as efficient at making openings as I wanted. Better for making roads and trails. I’m feeling like a skid steer with grapple or a mini...

65 acres down the road from some other hunting land I own. My objective is to have 2-400 acres contiguous, secluded, quiet. This parcel isn’t located where that would be an ultimate outcome. With that said, it may be available at a good price, and until I’m able to really have that dream spot, I...

I’m not a GIS professional but have geeked out over mapping tech since GPS and Google Maps hit the scene decades ago. I’ve started using some free open source software and lidar data to make some topo maps that have been super helpful for hunting and assessing properties before I even visit them...

I bought an IH800 planter several years ago that rocks as far as planting the stuff I’ve tried, even in a notill situation. It cuts thru any residue I’ve put it up against, much less the dirt. Most of the use has been with varying mixes of sunflower, sorghum, cowpeas, and millet. Mostly sorghum...

For those of you that are in tune with land values in or around CWD zones, how have they performed? As a land investor, should I be afraid of growing CWD prevalence in my state? I don’t want this to be a debate about how serious the disease is or isn’t, just about how land values have responded...

Are there ways to leverage the fact that a property produces regular income, albeit small in relation to its value, for further benefit? For example, I’ve read much about timber tax. Landowners can deduct expenditures related to management, maybe even including cost of visiting the property, if...

My road maintenance mowing would go much faster if I could eliminate brush encroachment at heights 4-8 above the ground. Young trees, shrubs, and blackberry that sprout well off the roadway naturally want to encroach into the sun light. I was wondering about these PTO sprayers I see with 2...

I have a food plot currently in rye and crimson clover and (unfortunately) ryegrass. Most summers it gets a flush of dense volunteer ball clover. I want a field to dove hunt on. Sunflowers in the past required an e-fence that I’m unable to swing this year. I’m considering the following sequence...

I’m in the preliminary stages of a potential land purchase. A condition of my moving forward is for a neighboring landowner and acquaintance (with which my family has been on good terms for many years) to provide a deeded easement. He’s let us access the property of interest by permission only...

Of your net worth, including retirement accounts, brokerage accounts, cash, other investments, real estate, rental property, crypto, home equity, etc. what percentage of your net worth is your hunting property equity? If that’s too personal a question, what percentage do you feel is a...

We plant ladino white clover in a mix every year. Last year we got a flush of this clover, and this year it was even more prevalent. I do not think this is the same variety of white clover that we plant, but that it is native in the seed bank. The first photo shows one sprig of the ladino we...

My parents own 130 acres in MS. Dad and I looked for hunting land to buy for awhile before he found this place. It was a little less $ than we’d considered but was in a neighborhood we really liked. He bought it, and about 2 years later I bought 85 acres of timbered land about 3 miles away...

I’m in SW MS and I have some spots of Chinese privet that I’m wondering what to do with. These are not areas thick enough to provide bedding and most of the plants have foliage out of reach of deer. They are spots where it seems to have a dense enough canopy to shade out new growth. The first...

I’m in SW MS and I have some spots of Chinese privet that I’m wondering what to do with. These are not areas thick enough to provide bedding and most of the plants have foliage out of reach of deer. They are spots where it seems to have a dense enough canopy to shade out new growth. The first...

I have a detached garage and some landscaping between it and the house. There is a large pear in there that is about 12” dbh, and has made some pears the last 2 years. It is incredibly poorly formed and is in a bad spot. I’d really like to remove it. It has an offspring farther away from the...