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I want to be surrounded by animal rights people coming in from the left coasts!

Because we don't know what the future land prices are going to be, you won't know if it's a bargain for 5 or 10 years. You would be securing half of your purchase in today's money, dollar cost averaging in a sense. You'll be half right or you'll be half wrong. You wouldn't want to over pay and...

For the guys on the fence, instead of waiting to buy your ground for 5 or 10 years waiting for something that may or may not happen, or worse, getting squeezed out all together...why not buy half of what you would ultimately like to own and locking in a price. Pay cash on the first half to save...

With the limited land supply and REAL wealth created over the last 10 or 15 years, I'm guessing it will be more of a stealth correction with land prices staying at or near where we are right now for multiple years. It would take more than your average moderate recession to beat down the high...

I worked the corn between the flakes of the bale of alfalfa and put them on south facing hillsides. Before the storm I added protein pellets 50/50 with corn. They would eat the corn prior to the snow but seemed more focused on the brassica bulbs and rye. After tomorrow, I'll lay some trees over...

The DNR knows exactly what they are doing. Don't get that twisted. Until tag sales really get hit and they feel the lost revenue, the chances of turning them is low. They'll ride the perception of Iowa being the #1 state for whitetails while destroying it from the inside. As long as they can...

Nightmarish.

If you rolled the regs back 20 years, you wouldn't have to change anything from that point. The party hunting with a doe tag kinda chafes my ass though...not sure when that came about. This might be one of the "if money was no object" items. Buy the SOBs off.

Great buck! What is his reasoning for passing him?? Just as making a mistake on killing a younger buck, people pass when they should have killed all the time.

Amen to more deer but I doubt it will fly with farmers and insurance companies. If the move is to less deer then it's obvious less buck tags to insure a pleasurable hunt. How we get there is the real question. Put a premium on a second tag? That would be a huge fight from the less wealthy and...

Landowners deserve another tag...Just because I would forfeit mine, I'd never ask of anyone to do the same!

This illustrates how fragmented the deer hunting world really is and how hard it will be getting anything changed or stopped. It's LO against non LO, it's shotgun hunter against bow hunter, resident against non res, compound vs Crossbow and on and on. I voted for one buck and would eat my LO for...

Best wishes to your family in this coming New Year. Prayers to your wife and family.

Real nice!

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://nursery.iowadnr.gov/Small-Trees-and-Shrubs_c_7.html

I'm not hunting it. If Jan 10th is the law, I'm breaking it. I'm fortunate enough to let it cook because I have a great lease. I've owned it for five years and have yet to kill anything on it, not that I couldn't. Doing land improvements on it in anticipation of losing my lease. Feeding not...

This is very much like the gun debates...the people who hunt over bait will always hunt over bait. That law already exists. Too costly to enforce, not enough boots on the ground. Push that so hard and some hero at the DNR will say food plotting is baiting and outlaw it. Now we'll have the law...

How much are the pellets? Not a real fan of pure corn when that's all they have.

We just flipped the switch on our 800# feeder after shotgun season (done hunting there). The cost of corn is around $70 to fill and how we have it set now that should get us through January. I'll bump it up when the first nasty cold comes through. We were lucky enough to get some brassicas in...