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We owe a debt we can’t repay. Thanks to all vets!!!

That would be a trip of a lifetime!!! Bigger is not always better.

Awesome story and deer! Congrats!!

Awesome stuff!

Congrats! It truly is about the experience. One you both will never forget, and that is priceless.

I need to retire from teaching and start being a tree nerd!

An average farmer back in the late 80's and 90's could buy ground based on if it penciled out that the land could pay for it. Now you better have a lot of extra to pay for it. Used to be $300-$500 pasture ground with $500 weaning calves. Now its $6000 pasture ground with $1500 calves(which may...

I am pretty sure that when I was a "young buck" I would have shifted to areas of high "doe" concentrations.

This reminded me of angus cattle breeders. If you go and buy the best bull calf that a small registered farmer produced from his herd of 30 cows(15 bulls) what are the chances that he will be of equal quality as the best bull calf produced by the farmer with 600 cows(300 bull calves to pick from)

In NW Missouri about 15-20 years ago they opened up doe season to unlimited. You could literally shoot as many as you wanted to buy $7 tags for. I heard of a few guys that first year shooting 80+ doe.(rifle not bow) The population slowly kind of shrunk and leveled off until 2012 EHD put us back...

You might be right on that to an extent, as far as the hatch of the midge goes. Really bad droughts though congregate the deer to the only mud flats and water holes that are left.

This time of year we see lone does in the edges of bean fields. Usually back off the road a long ways. This time of year they have a fawn back in the brush and are trying to keep their protein level up. They also are trying to stay solitary while the fawn grows. One deer leaves a lot less...

See my post above.

I hope this gets thrown out. This is a long watch but it is worth it. Actual wording is insane!!!!

I do know from talking to some guys down here in MO recently that some of the new contracts allow for 120 days worth of grazing every year. So I wouldn’t doubt that alfalfa would count as a crop now also. Not many run alfalfa much any more compared to 30 years ago. P and K are so expensive...

Iowa must be a lot more open on CRP. Down here in MO only beans corn wheat etc are going to get put into a new CRP contract and it has to have been in so many years out of so many years. No way would hay, alfalfa, clover, etc count as a year for anything towards CRP.

He is a Lucky mountain lion attack survivor.

We used to have 80 acres of it. The last 12 years since 2012 we have had none. We had "alfagraze" which was an expensive variety 25+ years ago. All I know is that they loved it! Turkeys too! Every year my spring gobbler was shot in the edge of an alfalfa field and their craw was jam packed full...

If you have much alfalfa at all you CANNOT throw more seed at it like said above. It kills the new seedlings out. Alfalfa does good in droughts as far as survival goes. Alfalfa does NOT like wet feet. In other words worry about too wet before even pondering about drought. I have seen lush...

The Feds and the antis want the deer herd decimated. That will slow or stop hunting tradition over time. It will also force the wolves to travel. They want them back in all 48 states. Sound nuts? It is, but they have long term goals. No hunting, no guns, and many would like no people on this earth.