Recent content by MOVol

I have tried fighting bush honeysuckle with fire using both dormant and growing season burns. Both were failures. In fact the dormant season burn, when fire actually carried through and top killed the honeysuckle, resulted in an even stronger stand of honeysuckle by the next year. I tried...

Your drone pictures are incredible. Thanks for sharing them. I’d also like to echo the previous thank you for sharing your story, experience, and updates on your work. Your pictures have helped me show my kids, father, and friends examples of what I’m trying to accomplish on my property. I...

Beautiful buck. I hope he sticks around, and I hope you get him. I’d have a hard time focusing at my job if I had a buck like that in my place!

Amen. Like many others I feel like my farm gets relatively consistent rain until I try to plant something. As soon as seed hits the soil the spigot shuts off. If anyone on this forum is trained in performing a rain dance I’ll gladly pay their travel expenses and send GPS coordinates to my...

I thought it was worth updating the thread I started last year with the results of trying out Dr. Harper’s recommended blend of 15 lbs crimson clover and 40 lbs of awnless wheat per acre as a fall planted food plot for deer with the intention of providing good turkey brooding habitat in the...

In my experience burning during the growing season can help control but not eradicate blackberries. It normally takes me a couple of burns over a 2-3 year span to really set them back. Burning in the dormant season, which would be ideal for NWSG, seemed to help propagate blackberry on my farm...

Absolutely incredible. Watching that video made my day. Thanks.

I’ve been following along with your thread for several years. In fact I stalked the forum for a few years before I made an account, in large part to view the property tours of guys like you, Native, and many others. You’re an inspiration to habitat junkies, and your photography skills are...

It’s funny, previously I wouldn’t have considered myself as a “turkey first” land manager. My primary goals were always deer centric with the hopes of getting my dad and kid’s opportunities to see and harvest mature bucks. I’m not that selfless though, I wanted my chance too. Up until the past...

The crimson clover wasn’t inoculated. I just bought the seed today, and I had to purchase the innoculant separate. The germination rate on the printed tag was only 90%, so I had to purchase the addition balance to try to get to the true 15 lbs/acre. I agree the 40 lbs seems really low for the...

At least it sounds like it! There’s always 100x more projects than there is time and money. With my father getting older, and moving 4 hours away from the farm I’m learning just keeping up with what we’ve already started takes most of our “habitat” time. The deer have responded well to our...

Also, your recommendation of crops as brooding cover is a great one. We have two plots that are both 5-6 acres that we alternate planting each year with either Milo or soybeans. Both plots have a decent stand of ladino and medium red clover in them. We drill the Milo or soybeans into the clover...

I appreciate it. We’ve spent a lot of thought and energy the last few years converting old pastures into early successional growth to better wildlife habitat. We are doing our best to keep those fields in a matrix of 1-4 year old growth with burns in both the dormant and growing seasons. It’d be...

Thanks Yoderjac. That’s helpful. My farm is in southeast MO. I’ve had great success with getting crimson clover to reseed.

I am seeking advice. I had planned on planting a mix of crimson clover (15 lbs/ac) and awnless wheat (40 lbs/ac) in some of my plots this fall per recent recommendations from Dr. Craig Harper on the Wild Turkey Science Podcast. The idea is to provide food fall-spring and then allow the plants to...