Think of your target buck like an elite athlete. If you want your bucks to be well prepared for the upcoming rut, NOW is the perfect time to start. The best thing you can do is provide free choice supplemental protein feed so they can bulk up ahead of when they need it.
Summer is typically a time of abundance across the range of white-tailed deer, but just because there is lush green vegetation everywhere doesn’t mean that deer have it easy. With the dog days of summer quickly approaching, your deer herd is faced with a multitude of challenges. Parts of the Midwest have had ample rainfall which is a blessing and a curse. Blessed in that food plots and crops are growing great, but the bad news is that mosquito and gnat populations are also thriving.
The number one question I get asked here at Ani-Logics is this: What is the best thing to plant in my food plot? The answer is just like your grandpa’s underpants: DEPENDS! Is the plot in full sun or in the shade? ...
I’m going through the big D and don’t mean Dallas! This was once a famous country music line, and this fall it holds true for most food plotters, except the big D stands for DROUGHT! Across much of the US, we are dealing with a...
I talk to a lot of guys that have weed issues in their food plots, and most of them have one thing in common: they disced the field without incorporating other forms of weed management. Discing without some sort of pre-disc herbicide...
I’m getting a lot of questions recently about what to plant at the tail end of the spring planting window. Let me take you on a journey of my own experience planting soybeans in Minnesota on June 21st a few years ago. I had been...
Ah, the age-old question, when should I be planting my food plot? The answer is easy when the conditions are right! Well, this was a short blog…
Just kidding, I’m sure you are wondering what conditions make it right?? Well...
What is frost seeding? Frost seeding takes advantage of mother nature’s freeze/thaw cycle to work small seeds like clover into the soil. The pickup and settlement of soil as it freezes and thaws works the seed into the soil...
With archery season open here in Minnesota, I want to give you a sneak peek at the bucks I will be chasing this fall. I’ll admit this year’s list isn’t as long as last year, but that is not due to any actual decrease in shooters in the...
