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12 yr old Granny Smith. Is this fireblight?

I have sprayed these things so much I worry about eating the fruit if I ever get a fruit.

Top picture is a shinseiki pear and the bottom picture is a dolgo crab. These trees have been sprayed eight times this year, starting with two dormant oil spraying in Feb and a half dozen sprayings every other week since, of bonide fruit tree spray and daconil mix. I am determined to get some...

I have not read of anywhere else that the infection rate is anywhere near 50%. The infection rates in Illinois are single digit percentages (if true). While I am not an advocate of intensive herd reduction - it does seem like it reduces the infection rate, even if it does not slow the spread.

I have heard from other hunters in our state’s cwd zone that the herd has declined as has the number of mature bucks. Our cwd regs did away with the three point antler restriction and in addition to our already existing two buck limit - removed the requirement to count button bucks as bucks...

A boat is a hole in the water into which you pour money!

I agree - like the county(s) in WI with infection rates of 50% or more. Are there few mature bucks? Do folks actively hunt those counties? WI claims a growing deer population due to declining hunter numbers. Is high infection rates of CWD reducing hunter participation?

Almost getting time for the coons and possums to enjoy the peaches

Spring spiderlily - or locally known as texas star taking over a lot of my bottomland food plots. They will grow in water

i was one step behind trying to catch up with these pigs. That first feeder is 400 yards from the house. Pulled my boots on and grabbed a rifle and headed to the feeder. They were already gone, but on my way back to the house, got another picture of them at a feeder another 500 yards away...

All kinds of vegetation starting to come in. I usually spray it in June - but it seems like the wheat has browned up earlier than normal and the weeds are coming in earlier than normal. Are seed heads mature at this point or still maturing?

I want to spray this wheat field with gly to keep it clean for doves. Is it done maturing where I wont hurt it with gly

I dont know about WI. But in my home state, if you shoot a deer and it goes unrecovered until the next morning - it is likely to be a skeleton. Within three days, you wont even find a bone. I suspect predators catch and consume most of the really sick cwd deer before they even die. I have read...

The fawns that are born I believe are primarily falling prey to coyotes and bobcats. We have quite a few twin fawns in July, but almost no twins by camera survey time in Sept. But according to at least one of our state biologists, there may be an underlying problem that may be affecting the...

While I understand there are isolated occurrences of areas that produce larger bucks than average, outside of the large river systems, I believe we are a long ways from wide spread “trophy” quality antlers across the gulf coastal plain, Ozark and Ouachita Mountain systems. While we have a fair...

While you either believe all the g&f data or you dont - it is what we have. One thing that most of us in the south understand - while we produce a fair number of 5 yr old bucks - the antlers on those bucks over much of our area do not compare with the antlers on the same aged bucks in the...

Our G&F Commissioners are pushing for allowing straight walled cartridge use during ML season and also during the small part of the state in farm country that permits only slug or ml. There are a lot more folks excited about getting to use those cartridges than folks that consider if it is good...

The Dec gun season keeps the Iowa herd from being decimated. Our 50 days of modern rifles, dog hunting, rut hunting, baiting, five months of archery - including crossbows - and we still kill a smaller percentage of the herd than they do in Iowa. Our season is that liberal and we only kill kill...

I agree 100%. We have age and genetics but lack nutrition. The AR delta has all of it, but very limited hunting opportunity. Iowa has nutrition, genetics, and nutrition widespread across most of the state. And to be honest, many of the subpar areas in AR are improving - largely as a result of...

in my opinion, saving bucks for another year is what increases the number of mature bucks. Arkansas does that with an antler point restriction. Arkansas hunters kill a lower percentage of their deer every year, both bucks and does, than does Iowa. At face value, that would also indicate more...