No Till Food Plots - So Easy

[at1010]

A great book all about fungi. I absolutely love learning about soils and using the information I learn both from our own testing and from a vast amount of books - to help others.

Fungi is one (imo) that is not often talked about enough and if it is, it’s far to general. This book does a great job highlighting what fungi can do for our plants and nutrient availability in the soil. It also highlights some areas in which fungi inoculation has not had a noticeable impact on plant growth and lastly, some areas we just don’t have all the pieces yet to fully understand the role of the fungi in its sole entirety.

What we can say for sure is that fungi play a critical role in soils, nutrient availability, robust cover crops efficiency, pest mitigation, phosphorus uptake, and even water conservation/availability.

If you’re interested in all things soil fungi- this is worth the read.

 

[at1010]

This is why we always recommend exclusion fences. We had the worst drought in a 100 years in Ohio and it would be easy to think that was the sole cause of reduced tonnage. However, clearly we need to either plant more food, create more food in timber, manage deer densities, or all the above.

Managing soils and deer is fluid from year to year and monitoring browse can have a major impact on your success as a manager and your decisions to be made.

Good news is- despite the heavy browse many of the forage brassica, clovers and grains are still putting on growth and feeding a pile of deer each day.