Hello to all. I’m Mike and I just joined today. I’m 61 and own a portion of a family farm that has been in my family since 1873. I’ve been deer hunting this property all my life. I’m a graduate of North Carolina State University with a degree in Soil Science and a minor in Forestry. I have worked I started out working in my degree field but transitioned to construction and have owned and operated a small construction company for the last 25 years. My hunting group is composed of me, a couple of nephews, and a couple of great nephews. We have about 150 acres that we manage and hunt. The majority of the land is in managed pine forests with small areas of hardwoods along creeks and around several old homesites. We have a natural gas pipeline bisecting the property that provides a great area to hunt. We also have 10-12 acres that are managed as food plots. We have 4 old tractors and an assortment of used equipment I’ve picked up and refurbished over the years. My wife and I are retiring in 2-3 more years and moving to the original 100 year old farmhouse my grandparents built on the property. We are in a sparsely populated area and many tracts of land around us are much larger than ours. One of the biggest being several thousand acres owned by a local lumber company that manages the timberland and leases out the agricultural portion. Nearly everyone in our area is trying to manage for quality deer. Even though I’ve been doing things on our property for years to enhance hunting I still have plenty to learn. I’ll be more than happy to provide any advice I can. I look forward to reading more on the forum and contributing where I can
New here from North Carolina
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Welcome Mike. Have a brother who moved to NC for work but stayed for the offshore fishing...well mostly. His ex and kids live in VA. Anyway nice place and hopefully you can connect with others in your area. Sometimes well meaning advice does not translate to different parts of the country very much.
For clarity, are you in eastern NC or way West for instance as expect those regions take some different management from each other. Much like northern WI and southern are way different in agricultural influence on critters as much as the weather. Also is dog hunting allowed in your county? No experience with that but sure it changes practices some and good info for others to keep in mind
For clarity, are you in eastern NC or way West for instance as expect those regions take some different management from each other. Much like northern WI and southern are way different in agricultural influence on critters as much as the weather. Also is dog hunting allowed in your county? No experience with that but sure it changes practices some and good info for others to keep in mind
I should have clarified my location a little better as North Carolina has huge differences in climate, terrain and plant species with our borders stretching from the mountains to the coast. I’m in Montgomery county which is in the south central portion of the state. Im just south of the uwharrie national forest and about a mile east of the pee dee River. We are predominately georgeville series soils which are good agricultural soils but highly erodable. Our native forests are a pine oak mix but most land in the area has been converted to pine plantations if it’s not in ag production. I was at my farm this weekend and overseeded 6 acres of oats I planted three weeks ago. The rain over the last three weeks got my oats(100 pounds to the acre planted with my old van brunt drill) were about 4 inches tall. I put 8 pounds of crimson clover and 3 ounces of purple top turnips to the acre out over top of the oats with my earthway bag spreader. We have had over 3 inches of rain in the last two days which should do a nearly perfect job of getting my clover and turnips covered deep enough to take off. I’m looking forward to what I see in two weeks when I’m down there again
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