Beasts Of Burden

The last upload of chemical warfare I was not happy with. It was rushed and also there was some information I presented that was not entirely transparent. I deleted the old episode and created a new one with more facts, figures, and price crunching to help you make the best descsion which chemical to use for your habitat project such as invasive foilar control, hack n squirt, or basal bark spraying. Hope this is more informative.
A Discalimer: You are an responsible adult. The label is the law. Ignorance is no excuse. You are responsible for reading the label and exhausting resources to make sure you are using the herbicide at your choosing responsibliy.

Happy Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos to our listeners! This is our 3rd Halloween Special where I share my personal spooky encounters. This year I talk about potential UFO and maybe some Bigfoot activity. And I say a big maybe I am not dying on this hill by any means. This is for fun and I hope you have fun listening!

In this episode, I discuss the different chemicals we use against invasive species. Mainly the well known ones such as triclopyr, imazapyr, and Milestone (cannot pronounce the name). I talk about the different rates and cost effectivness of each one and the different forms such as foilar or basal bark spraying. Disclaimer: you are a responsible adult. You're resposible for reading the label of any herbicide you use. I can make mistakes and misread the label and tell the worng information. It's on you as a landowner, conservationist, and applicator to read the herbicide label and follow the instructions.

In this episode, I give a brief life update. I focus on a question for a listener about how to market his services to obtain more FSI or TSI work. I talk about doing your own work first to show to other landowenrs, get to know your forester, the work your forester sees will help to build trust to refer you among other contractors. Also having an understanding of the natural history of your area, knowing your trees, and techniques will help build confidence with a landowner that you are the guy for the job.

In this episode, I share a reading from A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold. The essay is, "Thinking like a mountain". Afterwards I discuss the big life changes my family is experincing. Hope you enjoy. I will be honest I ranted a bit about over fixated whitetail management and neglecting other species. Deal with it my show my thoughts.

In this episode I talk about my short (thank God) brassica food plot season. All no-till. Most shortest and successful brassica season. I then explain the new market I've stumbled into mainly cattle producers. I talk about bringing my dad's Paul Knox Dbltree, Lick Creek mix into the cattle world. However, greatly modified to allow certain aspects to produce more tonnage and some diversity.

In this episode, I talk about some of my daily experiences that we all go through. I talked about the differences in habitat on our bottom oak savana from the bottom ridge to the top ridge. How quickly creating an opening and buring did! I then talk about all the different options with EQIP from bat houses to concrete stream crossings! I also talked about bat houses and the importance of bats!

In this episode I talk about my spring turkey season. I did not get a tom, but my goodness it was night and day difference to the turkety activity and excitement I experienced on my farm. It was encouraging and motivates me more to take care of my farm to its deepest potential. Also I get into woodcock management at the end so hope you enjoy!

Folks today is a rougher episode. I open my heart to express the potential I need to tap into for my farm and the county it resides in. I also tear into us, myself included, for not having a tighter grip on invasive species. We have sacrificed our native ecology for the norm. I am sick and tired of not seeing my fellow Americans getting serious about invasives, but I am also one to blame. This is a rant. It's pure frustration being let out and I hope it lights the fire under you to get to work with me.

Hiya folks. It's been a busy spring and summer. This is catch up episode. I talked about hack n squirting black locust, using milestone, the drought, failure is opportunity, EQIP update, and my honest and brutal opinion on food plots.