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No Till Food Plots - So Easy

at1010

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I love this time of year. The deer are almost always head down in the NitroBoost. We are monitoring bucks. Monitoring browse pressure on plots and TSI. Getting general ideas of fawn recruitment, and making plans for Fall planting!!

Once Fall planting is done, we will have many discussions on next years projects, harvest quotas, and ways we can continue to improve our soil, habitat and wildlife habitat.


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at1010

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This time of year my phone gets blown up by happy customers and their fields of NitroBoost. I wouldn’t want to have it any other way!! What an absolute killer job Eric has going on here!! This sure will feed some PA deer!!

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at1010

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We are always thinking about deer and one key we emphasize is the importance of observation, both of exclusion fences and the native browse species.

Observationally, I’ve noticed more twin fawns this year than any year before. I suspect this is due to a lot of the heavy TSI we’ve done - combined with maximizing our foodplot average and biomass for the deer.

We don’t just stop at this observation. We can use this data to highlight our continued efforts to manage deer densities. As we’ve harvested does, and made habitat better - deer numbers increase through better nutrition and fawn recruitment.

From fawns to antler growth to doe weights post birth - there are so many observations we can take this time of year that will help us analyze if our improvements are working or how they ought to be adjusted.

Have a great Saturday!

-Al


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