Land & Legacy - Habitat + Hunting

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Soil Health Series with Ag Consultant Mitt Wardlaw Mar 30, 2021

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What do you do when you receive the results from your recent soil test? It's a question we certainly get all the time and we know it's a common problem for land managers. We sit down this week to discuss soil sampling, soil health fads, and best management practices to improve your soil fertility, grow healthier food plots, and avoid time consuming mistakes. Mitt is an owner of Southern Ag Consulting and assists crop farmers across the south to improve yields and limit costs. Their company has over 90 years of experience assisting landowners with crops, soil fertility, weed control, and many other practices to help improve crop yield.

We walk through the steps of what to do once you receive the results from your soil tests. Mitt covers the steps he takes to make the quickest improvements on soil fertility and how in just one growing season he can change the soil's potential! We also discuss the difference between macronutrients and micronutrients and how you should understand them before working to improve them! Finally we discuss one of the biggest principles in soil health, liebig's law of the minimum.

It's always important to ask tough questions about our practices, thoughts, and future plans and with soil health it's no different. If we improved the soil organic matter by 2% over ten years what would we notice happening? Would we notice any changes or better yet would we notice any improved health of our deer? These are tough questions we must answer before we waste time doing things that don't have great returns. #Forloveoftheland

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Wild Turkey Podcast Series Habitat Management Implications Mar 30, 2021

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After two weeks of deep conversations with two of the top wild turkey researchers we cover the importance of turning research information into well-managed habitat. Often times we find some folks have difficulty translating the podcast information directly into habitat plans. This is where the podcast will focus on ways that leading research can assist landowners with boots on the ground habitat enhancement.

We talk about dormant season discing, timber management, prescribed fire, brood plots, invasive species removal, and overall neighborhood collaboration to strongly influence turkey populations. If you want more turkeys on your property give this podcast a listen and a share, then pick up your chainsaw and drip torch and get to work! #ForLoveoftheLand

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Transforming Habitat Is Not Accidental, It's Intentional Mar 23, 2021

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During this podcast we discuss how to yield actual results from your work on the landscape. After a day of prescribed fire, we have many stories to tell of our insights from the field. Often times we see folks taking the right steps but in wrong orders. This can be potentially harmful and not helpful.

Being able to develop a plan that will reach clear objectives is first and foremost. Next comes implementing those steps as designed. Taking shortcuts or getting steps out of order often takes habitat improvements into a stalemate. We want more for you, the land, and the wildlife. There is more to experience than staus quo habitat manipulation. It's time to be intentional with our goals and the steps we take to achieve them.

If you want to create a successful business, you need a plan, and you need to take certain intentional steps at the perfect time to achieve success, habitat management is very similar to his! We hope you learn how to attack your property properly during this podcast! #ForLoveoftheLand

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Wild Turkey Podcast Series with Dr. Bret Collier Mar 23, 2021

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During this podcast, Frank sits down with Dr. Bret Collier of LSU to discuss the latest information in wild turkey research. These two are great conversation starters as both are passionate about hunting, management, and the research of the wild turkey.

During this podcast, Frank and Bret discuss how to turkeys move across the landscape, and what type of movements landowners can expect to witness. In addition, they discuss how and why turkeys use different habitat types. This has serious implications for the conservation-minded landowner. Do you want to grow turkey numbers in your area? Do you want to hear more gobblers in the spring or see more poults during the summer? Be sure to listen to this podcast closely and pick up on the latest research data on the wild turkey.

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Standard Operating Procedure Mar 16, 2021

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During this week's podcast, we catch up and discuss some of our recent finds during our consulting trip. These finds all come back to a central theme of what should be the "Standard Operating Procedure" for each individual property. This Standard Operating Procedure revolves around how to make the best impact in the most efficient way possible.

We discuss during the podcast two different approaches we recommended on recent consulting trips on how to attack non-native invasive species such as bush honeysuckle, autumn olive, and multi-flora rose. In addition, we discuss a common theme of that many landowners take by not improving the property for fear that it help the neighbors, we break down this philosophy's flaws and how it could be contributing to your lack of success. Every acre needs attention!

We hope you enjoy this podcast and learn that there is a "Standard Operating Procedure" for your property, do you know it? Are you aware of how to follow it?

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Turkey Podcast Series with Dr. Mike Chamberlin Mar 16, 2021

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As we promised, we were going to bring on the expert turkey biologists during our Turkey Management Podcast Series. This guest has been researching and following turkeys for over 25 years professionally. Please welcome, Dr. Mike Chamberlin to the podcast this week where he brings his professional research expertise to the topic of habitat management specifically for wild turkeys.

With all of the knowledge and data points collected on this fascinating wild bird, we find that Dr. Chamberin's biggest suggestions revolving around thinning the timber, prescribed fire, discing, and old field management, and removal of non-native invasive species. This should be reassuring to our listeners who are implementing this same exact practice. These sound techniques yield results, it's not opinion, but fact. There must be something to these practices if a top research biologist who knows wild turkeys inside and out are promoting the exact same practices that we promote weekly. Follow along as you will find out more about wild turkey behavior and movements across the landscape than ever before.

If you want to hear one of the greatest minds in understanding turkey management, then follow along with this podcast. Share it with a buddy who is struggling to manage turkeys consistently on their property.

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190" Buck In Timber Country: The Story of Donuts Mar 09, 2021

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This is the story of a giant buck on our home dirt and how he went from a mediocre 3.5 year old buck to a world class stud. Over the course of time many hunters have encounters of pictures on trail cameras of a large buck that haunts their dreams and is talked about for seasons to come. This is a podcast devoted to a buck we called "Donuts," and the story about his life and what we can all learn from his pattern, growth, and habitat management around his home range.

Keep in mind this buck lived on a property that Chad and Adam have managed for years, and just two years before Donuts was 3.5 years old there wasn't a single buck living on the farm over 4.5 years old on a total of 900 acres. This isn't known to be a big buck area, this is a vast landscape of poor habitat and low quality deer hunting. The Keith brothers have set out to try and improve the habitat and see just what happens to the deer herd, so far it seems to be working! After a large timber harvest and prescribed fire the place is beginning to turn around, but with less the 25% of the overall work being done on the farm it's safe to say we're only at the beginning.

Listen up to hear the story of a buck that should encourage us all to look past the food plots and begin to manage the entire landscape. #ForloveoftheLand

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Wild Turkey Series - Life History Traits of the Wild Turkey Mar 09, 2021

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On this second installment of the Wild Turkey Podcast Series. This week Matt and Frank review the life history traits of the Wild Turkey from nesting, brood rearing, breeding behavior, and diets. These discussions will provide you with a detailed baseline of the wild turkey, this podcast is a foundational podcast for the weeks to come.

If you have experienced the thrills of a spring morning and gobbling toms this podcast will provide you with a more in-depth look at the details behind the behavior and ways those memories can be experienced. During the late 90's and early 20's hunters generally saw a strong upward trend in turkey populations, but as of late turkey numbers have decreased which has lead to more research on this amazing bird. We discuss in detail the current trends and ways biologists, land managers, hunters, and conservationists can rally together to share the education of the wild turkey and habitat specifics to improve the land to hold and recruit more turkeys each year.

We hope you enjoy this podcast devoted to understanding the wild turkey! #ForLoveoftheLand

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Tips and Tricks For Deer Hunting Mar 02, 2021

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On this podcast we sit down once again with Kasey Morgan of Drury Outdoors. Kasey has a unique work resume that covers outfitting Ohio to managing properties in Iowa from frequent podcast guest Greg Glesinger. If you listened to the podcasts this fall with Greg you know what's happening on their farms is almost unmatched across the country with Three, 200" is greater bucks being harvested in the last four years.

We cover a wide range of topics, from how to clear a field without educating all the deer, what buck beds mean to them, how they utilize access routes and more. When it comes to hunting layout and utilizing habitat improvement and hunting strategy together it's hard to find a better duo than Kasey and Greg.

Don't miss this podcast! #ForLofeoftheLand

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Wild Turkey Series - Habitat and Hunting Part 1 Mar 02, 2021

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We're kicking off another podcast series this week that will carry us into April and it's all devoted to turkeys! Whether it's the latest scientific research about improving turkey numbers to the calls we use to fill more tags this will be a fun series for us!

As many of our listeners are land managers we'll lay the groundwork out to help each landowner know what steps and practices they need to take to benefit the turkeys immediately as well as years to come!

This will be a series full of guests and common hear say that couldn't be further from the truth. Let's be honest, turkeys are struggling through much of the United States and the common opinions we hear aren't going to fix it! We'll never trap our way to more turkeys, but we can do the habitat work to help them come back!

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