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If it's all cash, there's no end in sight.

Using the $$$ as it was intended….. I’d like to know how much of that $$ didn’t go to the workers. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s just seems as if we’re about to this point in the market, but maybe there isn’t a ceiling to be had…. Are a majority of these farms being bought without a loan? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's why I gave it up personally. There's plenty of times they get out of the box searching. Some dogs will go a mile or 2 to get treed.

I've walked by deer bedded within 100 yards of treeing coon dogs. One time there was a gobbler in the same tree the dogs put a coon up in. A half mile isn't anything for most hounds to go. Granted I don't think coon dogs have near the same intrusion factor as coyote dogs do in the daytime if...

It's a "keeper" apple where it lasts after dropping till July. I'm not certain on the month that it drops.

This is going to be a fun one to watch in the coming years. Was able to secure some scions of this once thought extinct apple. I can't imagine an apple that's edible in December lasting till July.... It should make for a great late season food source...

Apps and books are a great place to start, but nothing works as well as boots on the ground applying that knowledge to learn the trees.

I've used parking lots where oak varieties are growing that I'm interested in. The acorns fall on the asphalt, and I sweep those up into buckets on heavy producing years. Another option I've used is to spray roundup around an oak tree in spring/summer to kill off the vegetation that I want to...

If that were my situation, I'd spray the MFR when it's blooming using a dye in the sprayer with roundup to confirm all plants have been treated. It's easy to miss some walking around the woods. I'd go hit the BH this spring with roundup when it has more vegetative growth than the natives...

What a project! As close to a blank slate as anyone can get today. Planting any shrubs/trees on the farm?

All those mentioned above including buttonbush. What I do for some of the better growing shrubs of each species is an exclusion cage so they can produce seeds for birds to carry out to other areas of the farm.

The IA and MO state nurseries are both great for native shrubs/trees. Best part about the IA nursery is they will fall ship seedlings to plant before winter.

Kinda hard to tell, but all those trees holding leaves are shingle oaks in the background.... Could spend days out there trying to remove all of them that size/age. They're great to cut and leave as a stump sprout for browsing. Elm and shingle are two of my favorites for that.

I have piles of those growing unprotected. There's a ton I'll be cutting this winter to allow for some white oak varieties to flourish growing in between all the single oaks that regenerated. For every swamp white oak I have coming up, there's a good 10-15 shingle oaks the same age.

They're one oak that doesn't require any assistance to flourish. A delicacy for turkeys in winter. Even in high deer density areas. I'll be culling out several of them this winter doing some TSI.

That is one impressive lineup of bucks

IA has such a finite amount of the resources to being with. If they ever let supply and demand play out on its own..... There would be VERY few places for residents to find a place to hunt even worse than it is now.

They'll pile in to eat the buds off trees such as elm/hickory that are cut down. That's one reason why I wait to do TSI during the worst part of winter.

I'd go with a classical conditioning system for deer. If you put that scent on some charged fencing using aluminum foil, I bet it would condition them to avoid that scent for the most part. I got tired of them running through my e-fence, so I put peanut butter in foil at intervals on the...