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It is pretty obvious that EHD is location and weather dependent. Last year was a particularly hard year for EHD in our neck of the woods in northern Missouri. We own a few properties along the same creek and in sections of this creek beavers have begun to dam it up and slow the water movement...

What is the ideal breed as a companion dog when working on habitat around the farm?

A friend was cutting through my place yesterday to turkey hunt the neighbors and came across these three pups that had gotten out of their den which was a few feet away. We are assuming they are very young as they are barely opening their eyes. I'm having my brother put a couple of great...

I'm wondering if anybody is familiar enough with Roundup ready alfalfa bailing. We currently have around 60 acres of pasture that are getting bailed. They are mostly cool season grasses and clover. The pastures are only getting bailed one time of year and it is typically in late July or early...

Driving to the farms tonight I saw two different foxes and it got me thinking. We have not seen a single fox on a trail camera or in person on our farms in Northern MO in at least 8 years. We have quite a few coyotes but almost no one traps or predator hunts. Is this typical? What are others...

I'm wondering if anyone here has any two radios they could recommend. We have a couple farms that are all within about 1.5 miles of each other. There are about 2-3 ridges that are maybe 300 foot elevation change between the two farms, and of course, quite a bit of woods. I know almost nothing...

I was a little too ambitious this winter/spring and grew too many trees from seed. I have a couple dozen hazelnut trees leftover and about 10 'Marrisard' chestnuts remaining. The hazelnuts (all labeled) are either wild American hazelnuts collected from central MN or northern MO, 'Yamhill'...

For reasons out of my control, I won't be able to plant the main food plot on the new farm this year. The field was mostly cool-season pasture that was recently terminated, but I won't be able to plant what was intended to be a perennial plot of clover, alfalfa, and chicory until July 3rd at the...

We have a couple sections of woods on the new farm that have had cattle throughout for the past 40 years or more. I am assuming at one point these areas were a mixed forest that was eventually clear cut except the hundreds of white, red, and black oaks that remain. There is almost zero...

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Assuming you have similar topography and cover throughout the property, would you rather have smaller kill plots that are scattered throughout the property with varying quality levels of access, or larger feeder plots that are fewer but more centrally located with easier/moderate quality access...

I don't think I've seen this talked about on here yet, but I'm curious what others are doing when they have guests come to hunt on their property. How do you determine who gets to hunt where?

Talked about doing this in the Live from the stand thread. This will be a place for people to post video clips from their hunts. To get things started, here are a few clips from my first couple of hunts on the new farm in Northern Missouri: I have had a few encounters with the bigger of the...

On the new farm, we have a number of old dead oak trees that have been dead for a number of years. I am assuming they were killed by cattle and most of the bark has fallen off. We burn some wood for a heat source so these are obviously appealing. I have heard from some that really dead and dry...

https://blog-crop-news.extension.umn.edu/2022/10/intermediate-wheatgrass-new-perennial.html Just wondering if anyone here has read or thought about using this as a potential food plot/revenue source? I have been reading up on it after seeing some plots of 'Clearwater' Kernza (which is the...

This is from a bur oak in my gravel bed in MN. It started aborting the acorns a few weeks ago and most are done dropping now. Most are about the size of a pea or a dime. I have no idea how palatable these will be, but for what its worth, I haven't seen a squirrel or chipmunk touch them yet. I...

For the last three years or so, we have been noticing more East winds at various times throughout the year. What got us thinking about this is that we have been looking at weather forecasts during the hunting season and have been seeing several days in a row with east winds. Nearly all of our...

I normally don't start "scouting" quite this early. One of my nephews is starting to get into hunting and was up for going so we decided to check out the new farm I just bought in March as well as our neighbor's bean field next to the home farm. For the new farm, I had no idea what to expect. We...

Situation: This is in northern MO. Have a drill for May planting, but may not have one for the fall planting. We do not own or have access to a crimper or cultipacker. Fields are currently planted with a decent stand of cereal rye. Soils are a medium textured silt loam with 4% OM. Deer density...

This is in Northern Missouri. I've never seen the fruit on these trees and don't remember them flowering so much.