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This the kind of crap I'm talking about. It almost encourages poaching. If a poacher gets caught half the time, they're in the black. I have never been checked for a tag while hunting, ever, anywhere. I have been checked for a fishing license several times in Ontario and once in Norway. The...

Generally, I do 2 buds on a bench graft. Exactly like people said above, the second one is just for insurance. In winter, the shorter of the two gets clipped off. When field grafting, I am starting to use larger and larger scions. I'm using a technique I can't remember the name of, but...

I think wildlife violation penalties are so far behind the times that every new law needs to include an inflation clause. There are so many states where the fine for poaching is equal to or less than the cost of hiring an outfitter. And of course, enforcement is generally pathetic. I have...

I'm not sure. I hunt in Holmes county in Ohio, where it's not much of an issue. The one time there was a scare, we did drive all our deer in to be tested. Because I'm outside the US now, a lot of the state level websites are blocked for me, so I am unable to check the details.

But do you wear your seatbelt when you travel in a car? Do you have insurance on your house? Do you concealed carry? Why not have your deer tested for CWD? Or are you saying you would eat it regardless of the results?

Yes, but not by much. It is not well understood, and testing/reporting is imperfect because it's such a rare disease.

Well that's scary as hell. We know scrapie jumped to humans via cattle. Now it seems even more likely that it can jump to humans via deer.

That's not accurate. Hundreds of people die every year from CJD in the UK and US alone. A few dozen of which are variant CJD.

Unfortunately, culling deer is currently the only way to slow the spread of CWD. Based on what we know about BSE, it's a miracle no humans have contracted CWD yet. It's a really nasty disease. I wish the government would put more resources into researching CWD so we could figure out how long...

You might have to spray to kill off the regrowth. I think you should first identify how the 15 acres fits into the rest of the surrounding property and let that help decide where you want bedding and where you want food. Also, what is the soil like? Is it piled up overburden like a spoil...

Can you use the same herbicides on your beans as you can use on your sunflowers? If not, then the herbicide resistant traits will not work together, and you will end up terminating one of your summer crops. You could plant part of the field in sunflowers and part of the field in soybeans and...

In that case I would plant a good fall blend including buck forage oats and brassicas or whatever worked for you last season. I'm a big believer in blends, as I believe it's good for the soil, and that makes the plot more attractive to deer.

If you're planting a summer plot, nuke it and plant your summer blend. If you're only doing fall plots, wait until the brassicas bolt and mow it to see what clover and/or weeds you have growing and go from there.

Short answer is yes, you can. You can then come back later and spray herbicide over your Roundup Ready beans and Clearfield sunflowers. However, I am a little confused by your objectives. Are you growing forage beans, or are you growing ag beans? Are you growing sunflowers for forage or...

Those are indeed half-free morels. They make up the majority of what I find in Ohio, too.

The location for your bedding sounds great. Is there a reason you only want to do a few locations along the military crest rather than the whole thing?

I think hawk populations are higher than any other time in my lifetime. Last time I drove I-75 in Ohio there was a hawk every few hundred yards or so just sitting on a fence post. In Ontario last summer I was getting dive bombed by hawks in the forest. I've also seen a flock of several...

Fox squirrels like them. They will shred them one by one to get at the seeds. Never seen anything else utilize them.

I'm at least 6'2". But yeah, that ship makes anyone look and feel small.

I wish I could explain everything in English, but unfortunately I learned all the terms in Norwegian. Basically, we would loosen the ropes that trim the sails (sheets?), and lower the yards, and then run up into the rigging and out on the yards to pack up the sails. If we needed to set a...