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"seek the creator's will for your life and apply it daily" Exactly!!! Thank you for this important education about trapping bobcats.

Grant, You are so spot on with this video. Addressing invasive plants/trees, maintaining trails, and trimming trees around the edges of food plots is a never ending task but it gets us outside and gives us some exercise. My only tip would be "don't be afraid to hire a professional". When I purchased my property the internal roads were so washed out you could hardly ride an ATV on them. I tried building berms with a shovel and making wooden dams to slow the water but eventually gave up and hired a dozer. He did the entire job in half a day, put in berms, widened the roads and improved a creek crossing. Now I just have to keep up on the maintenance.

Thank you for the education I have gotten from all of your videos Grant .

The tall grass is more mature than the short grass.thats why the root system looks bigger

Thats fill material from clearing. If you want to calculate soil loss just run a RUSLE2. You would be surprised how little soil you lose even with conventional tillage if you use the proper crop rotation. It tends to still meet T in all accords unless you run continuous beans with no cover or tobacco.

Amen Grant! During my trip out to Bladen, Nebraska last month from Pennsylvania it was very depressing to see 95 percent of the farm land I saw on my trip in bare soil, the erosion after the severe storms last month, and just how dead the soil was. As I drove past bio diesel and ethanol plants I couldn't help but wonder, is the damage from the way we are farming the crops to produce that fuel far greater than it's benifits? There is alot of work to be done to educate farmers and consumers on the benifits of soil health and its impact on the planet and our health. Thanks for continuing to spread this message.

What about a sickle bar mower?

you should do a special on how to repair and go back to old way - plowing a bit may still be a good idea but adding in compost and organic inputs to actively build things back up

You guys ever hear of planting very light amounts of corn, buckwheat and oats with your soybeans????? Guy around me who plants fields for a business says he mixes 5lbs of each to 50 lbs of soybeans. Drills that mix to 1 acre

While I appreciate the idea those deer are going to have a definite preference to feed in those beans vs that grown up fence row. I enjoy the idea of conservation and regenerative techniques, but it's growing deer not growing soil.

I think part of that higher fence row soil was because that’s where they put the debris from clearing the land.

Well said, especially about Aldo! I’ve read the book multiple times, and we as landowners are OBLIGATED to be stewards of the land! This (regenerative ag) is one way of many.

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Farmers would still argue with you/us.

After the tree has been hacked and squirted, do you leave the dead tree in place? Or can you eventually drop it and remove it? Use it for firewood? 🤷‍♂️

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Thank you, Grant! What an awesome video! Hard to argue against logic for sure.

Very interesting!

Great message. I realize my ecosystem probably isn’t as degraded and overrun with invasives as many of the southern farms I see on all of the wildlife habitat channels, but I can’t help but be disturbed by the amount of herbicides used. Is using glyphosate and other chemicals on a food producing property (including hunted game) really necessary?

Amen

I've always wanted to hunt a deer so thank you very much. 😀

Where do you get the summer release blend

No problem with using sprays in moderation. Problem with walking directly into wet sprayed areas as you are spraying. Why get it on your clothes and shoes if you don't have to? 48oz pump up sprayer still the ticket to hack & squirt. Way more control and less mess.

Well why did they take the meat from you and what do they do with it

Herbicide? Why risk messing up your native plants and pollinators? Smart young land managers are learning to just make a few trips with trimmers every year. Ive tortured my Canada thistle on many acres and they're 99% gone. Cheap, easy, and oddly satisfying. Monsanto says this is futile - they're dead wrong!

Maaan I didn't realize how terrible the sericea lesedeza invasion here is in the southeast! They're EVERYWHERE so prolific I genuinely thought they were a native species. You learn something new everyday. Btw we might not have to worry about chinese privit much longer cause my deer on my property here in North Carolina have been observed multiple times now browsing established privit bushes and munching on new seedlings coming up! Hopefully my crazy deer get some ideas and start eating the sericea lespedeza

Thanks for another great educational video, Grant! I'm going to be implementing hack-and-squirt (and girdling/spray in the winter) on my properties. I've been working with my local NRCS folks, and it's been a great experience. They are saying exactly what you have been saying for many years regarding FSI. I do have one question...when you mix a blue dye into the 'Harper cocktail', I'm assuming it's a water-based dye? In what order do you put the dye in, or does it not matter? Thank you for all you and your team do, Grant!

I got a nice 8 point on trail camera

Pro tip. Fill ANY open metal sections of a tree stand with gap filler. Wasps will make their nests in there!

What scope are they recommending for the 400 Legend?

We burned a field this year and bunch of locust trees have came up. What's best way to terminate them?

Great info

i liked this video because not everyone has time or money to complete a big task. But like you said, small projects each year can make a huge improvment. cheers Growing Deer TV!!

Thanks for the video Grant! Quick question for your team. We are getting hit with the Emerald Ash Borer here in Wisconsin. About 60% of our woods is ash and has died, or is dieing, doing a great job of naturally clearing the woods. As we take these trees out would you recommend using a herbicide on it as well? I'm just not sure if it will rebound and shoot out sprouts from the stump once cut down like hardwood do. Thanks!

Grant What mapping land app do you use? Another great video

is your blend effective on mesquite?

Do you have a video discussing safety of timber cutting versus safety of leaving dead standing timber? Do you self-limit the size of trees you cut down or terminate and leaving standing?

What chemical do you use

I’ve got thousands of gum trees in my thinned rows of loblolly pines and don’t have the best equipment to manage them

Another great video, Grant! Keep hammering on forest stand improvement. You know, and I know, the deer and the turkey population will approve.

Great video with lots of information

Why not Garlon 4?

Turning the woods into a savanna I understand during the growing season. But what about during late fall/winter dormancy when the 0-4' is deposited or laid over by snow? Is there enough cover to offer security?

Can you recommend a foliar spray mix to terminate sweet gum saplings? I’ve read that Garlon will do it, but worry about residual in the soil.

What kind of squirt bottles do you get? Tried 2 different kinds both leaked

Prescribed fire was not legal in Pennsylvanian and it isn't in NY state!?!?! WTF! There is something wrong with those people. This explains why states like NJ are so backward, with the NJ Sierra Club opposing Prescribed fire, and calling having a forest management plan "logging". What a bunch of elitist urban Fs.

Can we get a bit more explanation to the layman’s terms of this. Seems interesting

Seems like the problem started when man thought he had a better plan than the MASTERS plan!!!

Preach!

Another testimony on predator management, forest disturbance, and fire. Our turkeys are coming back! Jump on board everyone!