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  1. Daver

    What we shouldn't do

    Truth!
  2. Daver

    Land prices / insane!!!

    Just a FWIW...I traveled all the way to southern Texas about 20 years ago now to do a wild hog/javelina hunt. The outfitter that we went with talked at length about "segmentation" and not in a positive light. There, even 20+ years ago now, land was being subdivided and sold in smaller and...
  3. Daver

    Prescribed Burn - Backpack Blower Recommendations

    I have had this ^^ Stihl backpack for several years. I have been very happy with it.
  4. Daver

    LS XU5065 Tractor & Loader

    I have an LS too and have been happy with it. That looks like a good deal for someone, good luck.
  5. Daver

    EHD in Iowa's Deer Heard

    We usually have a couple cams that stay up all season and we gather them back when shed hunting usually. Below are a couple of interesting pics from one such cam...I think we are up to 16-18 dead does found and 1 dead buck. One of the does is shown below. She was looking pretty puny in the...
  6. Daver

    Land prices / insane!!!

    Similarly, the farms that I know of that are "sitting" have weird boundary issues and/or potential neighbor issues. I can't think of a "good one" that has sat for any length of time...including some that I would see as "borderline". The higher interest rates certainly appear to be limiting the...
  7. Daver

    Favorite Fall Brassica?

    FWIW, my experience with radishes is that they go for them first, in Sept and Oct. But, they only really hit the tops hard then...it takes them to late Oct, early Nov, before they start gulping the bulbs. They also rot faster than turnips, so depending on weather patterns, etc, I normally...
  8. Daver

    Land prices / insane!!!

    Another thing that I have shared here previously is that the whole COVID thing, to include PPP, et al, was the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of our nation. You are right, established business owners are generally in a far better position to not only weather a storm ,but to come out...
  9. Daver

    Land prices / insane!!!

    Correct. ^^ I have shared that same observation here previously, I just don't remember what thread it was in. But I know people personally that received high 6 figures in "found money" via the PPP. (Meanwhile, other business owners, despite receiving PPP money still couldn't make it. The...
  10. Daver

    Land prices / insane!!!

    Agree Skip! ^^ FWIW, every now and then someone will wistfully tell me that, "It must be nice to own a farm...". I will be the first to agree that it is more challenging nowadays to buy larger pieces of land, BUT...it wasn't easy when I first did it. But for years leading up to that initial...
  11. Daver

    Land prices / insane!!!

    FWIW...the Brighton area farm that Mike Reed of Midwest Whitetail fame hunts these days was purchased by the previous landowner once upon a time and the CRP payment was enough to make the land payment! THOSE were the good old days fellas. :)
  12. Daver

    ID this critter

    Stuffed teddy bear! Book it!
  13. Daver

    Coyote dogs and Private Land Deer Hunting.

    IMO, like so many things in this life...a few knuckleheads can ruin it for everyone. I personally think that there is room for coyote hunting with dogs and deer hunting in the same vicinity to coexist under some circumstances. It is definitely bad for the deer for dogs to be running around in...
  14. Daver

    Circle of life

    The more I hear about so many other places...the more that I am grateful for our neighbors. It's huge.
  15. Daver

    Pheasant rebound…

    I am not an expert on stocking quail and pheasants, but the limited insights I do have would be that it is not very successful...I think for the reasons mentioned above. Quite a few years ago, when I did a lot more pheasant hunting, I reported to the landowner that we flushed some quail while...
  16. Daver

    Circle of life

    I was kind of thinking, "Crap, well it will 3 to 4 years before things are cooking again...", like you indicated. But...we have had some "move ins"...or possibly, "move backs". So we actually have some good prospects on the farm now for next year. Yay!! Now then, what comes and goes over...
  17. Daver

    Frost seeding

    Overnight lows under freezing, daytime highs above freezing are in the forecast...do it now. :)
  18. Daver

    Circle of life

    I have seen "scattered skeletons" too many times, presumably from coyotes. But with exception of the buck highlighted above, all other "heads" have been present and accounted for and were clearly does. It just seems weird that this is the only buck dead from EHD that we have found so far...as...
  19. Daver

    Circle of life

    Alrighty then...I am going to say that I think that this must have happened to us...because although we have found quite a few "bone piles", we still think we should have found several more. FWIW, we have three ponds deep enough to "hide" a carcass and found none in any of those ponds and only...
  20. Daver

    Circle of life

    My son recently found a dead buck while shed hunting that we were pretty sure was laying out there somewhere, as he has been a regular for a couple of years at least and then just went AWOL sometime in August I believe, maybe Sept. We were pretty sure that he was one of our EHD casualties and...
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