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Never saw it before or since....but he sure did for whatever reason.

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Watched a big buck during MO muzzleloader season back around 2000 feed on goldenrod heads all evening on the edge of a winter wheat food plot. Granted, I'm certain the winter wheat was his favorite more often than not, but not on that night.

My ideal weed plot would be: annual sunflowers perennial sunflowers giant ragweed common ragweed waterhemps/pigweed (good quail food also) trailing wild bean (large and small) foxtail jewelweed tickseed/beggar's ticks/bidens (discraceful plant name) beggar's lice

I'm gonna have some winter peas drilled into that field.

Giant ragweed gets browsed harder in the soybean field than the actual soybeans do.

These are some cheap plots to create. The field was worked about a month ago and left as is. There is a lot of pigweed and purslane coming up. The deer like it as much as the beanfield on the other side of the camera. Granted the contrast between both field will be different in December, but...

That's the difference in being proactive as opposed to reactive. Think years down the road and not take the bait dangling right in front of you.

If the top deer is older, I'd shoot that one over the other buck. I had the exact same scenario play out in 2004. The younger buck was a 160's class 10 with the buck in my avatar at 35 yards. I never caught up to that other buck, but the next year a couple friends of mine were awestruck by...

It's the only time I've seen a NR with huge acorns myself outside their norm.

I have a northern red on my farm that produces mega sized acorns like that. More like a silver dollar.

Northern Red Oak

For oak trees I'm not as concerned with timber value as acorn production. So the more limbs the better. I'd never do this for a walnut...there is too much light hitting this bicolor that I released.

I like to keep as much shade as possible on the trunk of the walnut up the main stem to the branches. This usually entails cutting say one row of trees out around the walnut and then waiting 5-10 years to do it again out further out as the walnut crown continues to grow. In some cases, it's...

Trying to decide if this is a chinkapin x bur cross or a bur x swamp white oak. All 3 are on this property. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wait till the ones are available that selectively spray only the weeds and skip the rest. Watched a video of a robotic spray rig that went down the rows only spraying the actual weeds.

Some additional black walnuts that were released to replenish the next round of lumber before harvesting. Thought I had these posted on here already but couldn't find them. There is a large amount of baby walnuts growing all over the creek bottom. In another 10-15 years, it'll be time to...

Great video, Skip. Land Stewardship over smash and grab for longevity. Leaving the best trees to regenerate for the next generation only makes sense before harvesting them.

I always liked those areas where winter rye or winter wheat is left standing. Those areas seem to harbor a lot of hens with poults when the annual weeds start to come up in it.

The smoking gun will be with lots of predator trapping done and a wet spring for the hatch... Had a big covey of ~20 quail fly over the highway this weekend, they were a good 3/4ths grown.