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https://www.rackology.org/ Bruce: …Rackology, Eric Fitzgerald and Jason Obermiller, and your host Bruce Hutcheon with Whitetail Rendezvous. We joined up and we’re sharing some ideas about, you know, land management and food plots. And why are we doing this? Because there’s a lot of misinformation out there, there’s a lot of advertising out there, there’s a lot of promotion out there, there’s a lot of sponsors out there, people who are being sponsored by XYZ, you know, company. And we go, “Wow, I’m going to buy some of that.” Well, you have no earthly idea why you’re buying it except that there’s a green field behind the person, you know, shooting this wonderful [Inaudible 00:00:40] saying, “I use X.” That’s marketing, I get it. But when you start drilling down into it, you know, what are food plots, what aren’t they, you know, food plots start with, you know, with seed. Some sort of seed has to come out of the ground so the deer are going to eat it, and there’s a lot of prep work that goes into that. So, guys, let’s jump into it. We get about a half an hour to share with our listeners what food plots are and what they’re not. Eric: All right. Well, I guess, looking at food plots, they are, as the name implies, they’re either…they’re a plot that you plant that bring wildlife there for mainly two reasons, food and cover. And some animals will use the same food plot for food that others use for cover. And what you’re trying to do is centralize the wildlife on your property and also provide something that maybe not…wasn’t there to either increase your odds at, you know, harvesting a buck or a doe, or it might be a turkey or pheasants, you know, hunting pheasants. So, and it’s also there if you’re just enjoying wildlife and want to give back a little bit. Because, as we all know, habitat in the United States has shrunk immensely for wildlife, whether it be urban development or what might be happening. But, so any time…a little goes a long way when it comes to wildlife, habitat, and food plots. And so that’s, I guess in my opinion, what they are in a nutshell. They’re nutrition, they’re cover, and they’re sanctuary for wildlife. Jason: Well, you can look at food plots also from a standpoint of, you know, if you go out into nature, into the trees, you know, wherever you’re hunting at, it may be grassland area, you know, like out in Western Nebraska, and you look at the quality of forage that’s available. You know, I’m not knocking Mother Nature, you know, nature, per se. But the forage quality out there, the amount of nutrients that’s naturally available in nature just doesn’t compare to what you can bring to them in a food plot. You know, if a person can only afford to do just a little for your deer and you had to decide whether, “Do I put out some feed or do I put out a food plot?,” and the answer there is the food plot is where you’re going to get the most bang for your buck, no pun intended. Because you’ve got a growing time from spring that they can start eating through the fall months and into the winter months even on some of the…you know, the perennials, like we have. Now, you know, is feeding, you know, mineral and feeds like that, is that beneficial? Of course. I mean, you know, as I stated, you know, a few months ago in a podcast we did with you, I mean February, March, and April, a lot of people don’t realize this, but February, March, and April are, like, huge months for fawn and antler growth. The bucks are storing the minerals on their skeleton that they’re going to use to grow the antlers in the summer months. And those months are when there’s hardly any food available over the winter months. And when you’ve got…you know, let’s say you can put out a sizable food plot, even if you can’t afford to, you know,

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Plan for success before going to work and investing your money into your land is a must. So, you know, with that, that kind of breaks down into three parts. We’re gonna give them the ideas, the information, the…potentially, the Rackology products. But it boils down to, are they gonna be the ones that does all the work? Are they gonna need to have help with it? Are they gonna be somebody that requires help from some outside sources, or are they gonna be the type of client that’s gonna totally need the whole thing done for them? There’s examples of why those would be, you know… Probably the majority of the people that we’ll be talking about here are the “they will do it”. Most of our customers, they wanna do it themselves because it goes back to the first segment, we talked about the “why”, and a lot of times the why is if you do it yourself, you have a huge sense of accomplishment, and a huge sense of reward. It don’t matter if you go out and kill a doe or a monster buck, you did this, you did all this. So the majority of the clients are gonna be somewhere in that realm. You know, there’s some that are gonna need a little help. It might be, at the very least, they have to go out and rent equipment because, you know, they don’t have any equipment. But they can probably do a lot of this stuff, but they need help. Like, “Where do I get this? Where do I get that?” Eric: Or, it could be a land owner that doesn’t live on the premises, or doesn’t even live close by, that needs us to line something up if they can’t. Jason: And then, at the far end of the spectrum is your land owners, land managers, that… Receive a $50 goHUNT Gear Shop Gift Card by using code WR when joining Insider http://bit.ly/2s8dX5k . Here’s a quick demo about goHUNT.com/insider https://youtu.be/YFNMzEUtcys Whitetail Rendezvous podcast receives compensation each time a new member joins Insider via our link Free Shipping Order yours today https://www.whitetailrendezvous.com/shop/

The land can grow the deer if you managed the land. (https://www.rackology.org/) And that’s one thing that everybody will talk about but, you know, to my thinking, the more thorough you are with that process before getting to, you know, wherever, dusty road and rolling hill, the better off you’re gonna be able to serve your client. What do you think about that? Eric: I agree. I mean, going with what Jason was talking about, you know, it’s amazing how much we can do now with technology that we couldn’t even do five years ago. Or, if you did, it was so expensive, and now it’s cost-effective. Everybody’s got a camera on the phone, almost everybody, GPS right on their phone. They can plot, you know, plot a couple points where some of the stuff is, and move them to Google Earth and know exactly where they stood in that field. But it’s just amazing how this technology has gotten more accessible, more economical that about everybody could use it, and use it to their advantage. But we do have guys that definitely are not tech-savvy, and they’re gonna call us and say, “I’ll tell you, you know, I don’t have a GPS. I don’t even have a smartphone. But here’s the intersection of the roads that this section’s on,” or, “Here’s a legal description of the field. I can give you that,” and then we do the work from there. So we deal with guys that are on both sides of the spectrum when it comes to that way. But when they… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HzkyJAni9U Receive a $50 goHUNT Gear Shop Gift Card by using code WR when joining Insider http://bit.ly/2s8dX5k . Here’s a quick demo about goHUNT.com/insider https://youtu.be/YFNMzEUtcys Whitetail Rendezvous podcast receives compensation each time a new member joins Insider via our link

Welcome to a special edition of “Whitetail Rendezvous,” and we’re traveling up to Loup City, Nebraska. Now, I’ve got a couple friends up there that own Rackology. If you don’t know what Rackology is, well, if it’s a double helix, it’s a double helix chromosome…is that true, Jason? https://www.rackology.org/ I’m talking to Jason Obermiller and Eric Fitzgerald. Eric’s a agronomist, been in the business a long time, and then Jason teaches school, and they got together a few years back and created some products, and now their business is growing. And I’ve asked them to be part of the “Whitetail Rendezvous” Spring Series, talking about land management. “Whitetail Rendezvous” Spring Series, talking about land management. Well, appreciate you having us on here, Bruce. It’s great to visit with you again and see a familiar face, again, here. We…I guess, when it comes to land management, I think that a lot of people don’t understand how important it is, especially if you own or lease, or even get the rights to hunt a piece of property, and how important land management is to your success if you’re hunting. And it doesn’t matter if it’s whitetail deer, pheasants, turkeys, or if you just want to have an abundance of wildlife out there, land management is crucial. This day and age we’re seeing a lot more land being developed, especially in our neck of the woods, and has taken some of the habitat out. And so, that leaves less areas for wildlife to go and to use as their home range, and so something as simple as a food plot, or setting up, you know, a feeding station in the off-season could really increase your odds of harvesting the buck that you want to harvest, or just going out with your family and seeing wildlife, land management is crucial, and it could be something simple. And that’s what we’re trying to educate at Rackology, is how simple something could be, do it yourself, and, I guess, produce the results that you’re looking for. And that’s what we’re trying to educate at Rackology, is how simple something could be, do it yourself, and, I guess, produce the results that you’re looking for. Jason: Yeah. And I know, like, in my classroom I get…you know, growing up here in a rural area, I got a whole bunch of kids that are farm kids, and, you know, we’ve got a lot of type [SP] places in this area where they plant right up to the fence rows, and you get asked all the time, “How come we don’t see any pheasants? You know, where’s the wildlife?” And, you know, a big thing that I point out, and I do this carefully, of course, is, you know, when you plant up to the fence rows, and it’s all a monoculture, like corn, once the season is over and it’s been combined, and it’s gone, there’s really no habitat left for those deer or anything to really hide in. Not only that, if you have a little strip of grass along the fence, what occurs is called the edge effect. So if you do have any birds or game that’s using that grass for cover, coyotes and predators, you know, they’ve got a very narrow area to hide in, and so it prevents them from, you know, having any type of hiding, any type of escape. And so, you know, when we get into land management, talking in one of my Wildlife classes, we discuss this, “How can we manage our land for wildlife, but, at the same time, you know, accommodate what brings a lot of money into this community, that’s agriculture?” And they can both work very well together, so long as both sides are willing, you know, to do a little give-and-take. And there’s people that, you know, that land management doesn’t necessarily mean shooting 160 or 180-inch deer. Receive a …

Welcome for the final segment of Land Management: Land & Legacy presented by Whitetail Rendezvous, and I’m here with one of the owners, Matt Dye. He and Adam Keith own Land & Legacy. And we’re gonna talk about, “The Plan,” the first part, first segment. If you haven’t listened to it, listen to it at whitetailrendezvous.com, and the second part with “Boots on the Ground.” Listen to that. Now we’re gonna wrap it up with Matt, “The Plan.” So, you’ve done all this work, you’ve been on the ground, now what happens? Matt: This is where we get down to the nitty-gritty, Bruce. This is where really our recommendations become written form. And, as we’ve talked in the past, Bruce, when we got started with Land & Legacy, we wanted something, our product, to live on and influence people. We want to share information that’s going to change people’s, honestly, lives, and change properties because there’s such a draw to land and to people. People want to be a part of it. It’s so natural, it’s so raw, so real. Receive a $50 goHUNT Gear Shop Gift Card by using code WR when joining Insider http://bit.ly/2s8dX5k . Here’s a quick demo about goHUNT.com/insider https://youtu.be/YFNMzEUtcys Whitetail Rendezvous podcast receives compensation each time a new member joins Insider via our link

Welcome to the second installment of land management with Land & Legacy Welcome to the second installment of land management with Land & Legacy. Sponsored by, provided by, offered by Whitetail Rendezvous Podcast. And I have Matt Dye, who is the owner, he and Adam Keith own Land & Legacy. Matt, today we’re going to talk about boots on the ground. The last segment we talked about why land management. And, folks, if you haven’t listened to that, go to my website, whitetailrendezvous.com, and go back and… I don’t remember the number right now, but it’s there. And just look for this miniseries and, you know, listen to that because that will help you understand what we’re going to talk about today, boots on the ground. Matt, so we answered the question, I called up and said, you know, I got a 40-acre, 120 acres, and I want somebody to put eyes on it. And you helped me understand why, you know, land management was important to me and my buddies on our farm. Now we’re going to go boots on the ground, so tell us about that process in the next 20, 30 minutes. Matt: Yeah, absolutely. This is where the fun, fun portion happens. Because we’ve already established that, okay, based on your hunting seasons, your success or failures, or just overall knowledge of the habitat, that something needs to change. Something isn’t clicking, it’s not working, you’re not seeing what you want to see, you want to see improvements. So we’ve established that land management is necessary on your property and now we are actually able to take action and get all the information Adam and I need to be able to make our proper recommendations. Receive a $50 goHUNT Gear Shop Gift Card by using code WR when joining Insider http://bit.ly/2s8dX5k Here’s a quick demo about goHUNT.com/insider https://youtu.be/YFNMzEUtcys Whitetail Rendezvous podcast receives compensation each time a new member joins Insider via our link

Matt Dye of Land & Legacy …https://www.landandlegacy.tv/ And I’m on with Matt Dye this morning, he’s with Land & Legacy. He and Adam Keith started Land & Legacy a while back and they’re just doing gangbusters. And they do land management, but it’s a heck of a lot more than that. So we just got together and said, “Let’s do a little series this spring,” and that’s what we’re doing. And today is Part 1 and this is land management, Part 2 is going to come up later on and we’re going to talk about food plots with Land & Legacy. But today we’re going to break it down in three parts. We’re going to break it down into, one, why land management. Two, boots on the ground. And, three, the plan. And it will be a 30-minute segment, so I’m going to break them up into three different segments for your listening to make it easier so you don’t have to listen to the whole thing straight through and wonder, “Oh, I want to get back to that place.” So we’re going to make it easy. A native of Virginia, Matt Dye got his start in the outdoors at a very young age. His family’s farming and hunting background has guided him through his education and career dedicated to land and wildlife management. Matt’s goal is to educate others in land conservation while reaching folks through the enjoyment of God’s Creation. Land (n): ground or soil of a specified situation, nature, or quality ​”Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.” – Aldo Leopold Legacy (n): something received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past. “Jesus shows us how to leave a legacy, a legacy of glory, His glory, not ours. If, by His grace, we become humble, dependent, proven, focused, persevering, obedient, and faithful men and women who focus our lives on making the Father known to those He gives to us, we will leave a legacy of glory. Not our glory, but His, the glory He wants to give to the Father through us.” What greater legacy could we leave? “The legacy we leave is the life we lead, the life of Christ in us and through us passed on to others in the power of the Holy Spirit.” (www.bible.org/article/leaving-legacy-glory) Receive a $50 goHUNT Gear Shop Gift Card by using code WR when joining Insider http://bit.ly/2s8dX5k . Whitetail Rendezvous podcast receives compensation each time a new member joins Insider via our link. Here’s a quick demo about goHUNT.com/insider https://youtu.be/YFNMzEUtcys