1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,520 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wire to Hunt podcast, your home for 2 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host, 3 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm 4 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyon in this episode number two and 5 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:22,439 Speaker 1: seventy nine, and today in the show, I'm excited to 6 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: be joined by doctor Grant Woods to discuss a new, 7 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 1: more ecologically friendly methodology for planting food plots that mimics 8 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 1: how vast herds of buffalo and the native grasses of 9 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 1: the Great Plains co existed to create one of the 10 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: most bountiful ecosystems on the planet. All right, welcome to 11 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by Onyx 12 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: and today I'm joined by Dr Grant Woods. And if 13 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: you're not familiar, Grant is one of the foremost experts 14 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: on deer and habitat management for wildlife. He's a wildlife biologist, 15 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: he is a consultant, and he's the host of Growing 16 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: Dear TV, which is an online video series which documents 17 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 1: all of his work improving and hunting his proving grounds 18 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: property in southern Missouri and then consulting with with other 19 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: landowners across the country. And you know, I've been a 20 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: fan of grants for a long time now. I followed 21 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: a lot of what he's been doing, but I want 22 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,759 Speaker 1: to have him on the show today because he's one 23 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: of the first people with a significant voice within the 24 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 1: hunting space to embrace a new, more ecologically friendly and 25 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: productive method for managing and planting food plots, and something 26 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: that recently I've gotten really excited about. Uh, with many 27 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: of the good things, I guess in my life, this 28 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: was this is an idea that was actually turned on 29 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: me by my wife. It was about a year ago, 30 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: just a little over year ago, I guess. It was 31 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: when she confronted me about how I was planting my 32 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: food plots. I had just been out on this property 33 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: and I was trying to control this plot that just 34 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 1: got overcome with weeds, and it was really frustrating. I 35 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: was talking about all the different chemicals I was gonna 36 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: spray on it, and how many times I was gonna 37 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: have to do it um and she was She just 38 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: kind of looked at me, She's like, why are you 39 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 1: doing that? Why are you spraying all this poison out 40 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 1: there on this place that you talked about you care 41 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: about so much, you know. It seemed to her a 42 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: little bit, uh, I don't know, a little bit backwards, 43 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 1: and I just told her, well, it's just just what 44 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: you gotta do. There's no other way. And in her 45 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 1: own special way, she told me that that was kind 46 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: of a bullshit excuse. She said, there's gotta be a 47 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: better way. Don't be lazy, figure it out. And at 48 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: the time I didn't really like it. And I still 49 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: went and I used those chemicals because I had to 50 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: get the job done, I thought, Um, but it kind 51 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 1: of stuck with me. You know. She had a good 52 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: point there, as you know, as is the case, we're 53 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: probably you and me and many other people like us. Um. 54 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: You know, I care immensely about the natural world, you know, 55 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:55,640 Speaker 1: the earth, the environment, whatever you wanna call it, the 56 00:02:55,639 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: animals and plants, water, the air, all this stuff. These things, Um, 57 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: they are responsible for the most incredible special experiences in 58 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 1: my life, right hunting and fishing and being in the outdoors. 59 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 1: I mean, these are the things that that get me 60 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,119 Speaker 1: up in the morning and keep me going all day. Um. 61 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: So because of that, I've tried as much as possible 62 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: to make sure that I'm treating you know, these places 63 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: and these things with respect and with care and speaking 64 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 1: up for when I can. Um. But my wife kind 65 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 1: of made a fair point that maybe some of the 66 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: stuff that I was doing, um, which in my mind 67 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 1: was was trying to help wildlife by playing food plots, 68 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: maybe I was doing some some not so good stuff 69 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: to get there. So so I got researching. I started 70 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: looking into it earlier this this late winter, I guess, 71 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: late winter, early spring, and started trying to better understand, 72 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: you know, number one, understand what I had been doing, 73 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: you know, conventional agricultural practices. What you know, what's the 74 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: rationale for doing that? And are there any downsides to it? Um? 75 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: And if there are downsides to it, are there alternatives? 76 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: And the long story short on that is that yes, 77 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: there are a bunch of downsides to the conventional way 78 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: of doing things, unbeknownst to me. And I'm just starting 79 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: to learn all about this stuff now. But unbeknownst to me, 80 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: you know, aggressively tilling the soil, frequently, spraying herbicides, loading 81 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: up on synthetic fertilizers, all this stuff in a lot 82 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: of different ways is damaging to soil and water and 83 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 1: plants and animals, and um, you know, I've been doing 84 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 1: that and I didn't really realize that at the time, 85 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: but it does turn out that there are some other 86 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,599 Speaker 1: ways to go about it, that that isn't the only way. 87 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying, you know, it's horrible to people 88 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: do that stuff, but maybe there are some better alternatives. 89 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 1: And I figured, if I knew they're alternatives, I should 90 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: probably explore them. So that's what I've been doing, lots 91 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:49,359 Speaker 1: and lots of reading, lots of watching videos, start to 92 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: talk to people about these different ways to go about it, 93 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: and and there really are some cool ways of doing this. 94 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 1: So there's some things within the traditional agricultural world called 95 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: what other people are calling read genitive or restorative agriculture, 96 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: in which people are successfully planting crops without disking them 97 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: all up, without tilling it all up, without spraying all 98 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: these herbicides and secticides, without dumping all these synthetic chemicals 99 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 1: and fertilizers into the ground, and and they're doing this 100 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: in a way that is, you know, first, it's better 101 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 1: for the environment, it's better for the wildlife. It's also 102 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: much less expensive in the long run because you're not 103 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: dumping money into all those things. And at the same time, 104 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: what they're finding is they're producing just as good, if 105 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 1: not better yields. Um. So that's that's big news. And 106 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: like the food world, but from a food plot perspective, 107 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: it makes a whole lot of sense too. And and 108 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: that's where Grant Woods comes in because as I was 109 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,599 Speaker 1: doing all this research, I ran across some of the 110 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 1: stuff that Grant's been talking about, which he calls the 111 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 1: Buffalo method of food plotting, which is essentially his take 112 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: on this regenerative agg process and how he applies it 113 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: to deer and wildlife food plots. So that's what we're 114 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: talking about today. Uh, Grants going to walk us through 115 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,919 Speaker 1: his ration and the science behind and the how to 116 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 1: for his buffalo food plot methodology, this system that he's 117 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: developed that mimics the Great planes and how they are 118 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 1: grazed by vast ards of buffalo to create this immensely 119 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:18,119 Speaker 1: healthy and productive food source for wildlife and um man, 120 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: I'm really excited about it. It's really interesting stuff. I've 121 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 1: never personally gotten this into agriculture and food and planting, 122 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: um but but this kind of is a different way 123 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: of looking at it. That's that's particularly interesting. So in 124 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: the meantime, we should probably just get to our chat 125 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: with Dr Grant Woods. All right with me now is 126 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: Dr Grant Woods of Growing Dear TV and Grant. Uh. 127 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure and a treat for me to 128 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 1: get to catch up with you. Um. So, first off, 129 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 1: thank you for taking the time to do this. Hey, 130 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: thanks for the opportunity Mark. Yeah, and and and as 131 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:53,919 Speaker 1: much fun as it is just to chat with you 132 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,599 Speaker 1: about what's going on in the proving grounds or what's 133 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: new with me over here. Um, I'm particularly excited for 134 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: this conversation because I personally have gotten really interested and 135 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 1: just kind of started learning a little bit about some 136 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: different ways to approach managing forage and producing food plots. 137 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: And I've been doing a ton of reading over the 138 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: last couple of weeks to kind of learn about this stuff. 139 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: And I've gotten maybe more excited than I've ever been 140 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: about the kind of food plotting work I might be 141 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: able to do on the properties where I can do that. 142 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:28,559 Speaker 1: And as I was diving into all this stuff about 143 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: about a new way of producing food plots, a more 144 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: ecologically friendly way and maybe more productive way. As I've 145 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 1: been diving into all this, your name keeps popping up 146 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: and your resources kept popping up and and I said 147 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: to myself, well, I'd love to catch up with Grant 148 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: and I'd love to learn more about this stuff. So 149 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: it was a great way to have these two worlds collide. 150 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: And uh, and that's kind of what I wanted to 151 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: talk about, Grant. Is the system that I've heard you 152 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: refer to as your Buffalo food plot system or methodology. Um. 153 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: And I guess before we I into what exactly that 154 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: is and how to do it, I guess I'm really 155 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: curious to understand what was your inspiration for trying to 156 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: go about putting together food plus system that's different than 157 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: the normal conventions out there. How did this idea spark 158 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: for you? Yeah, it's really a long history that led 159 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: to a pretty short change or short story. So I've 160 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: I've been incorporated as an I'm a consulting biologist. I 161 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: just didn't really like the university system. So in June 162 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: we're celebrate twenty nine years have been incorporated, and I've 163 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: literally helped landowners from New Zealand to Canada and every 164 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 1: state that has white tails in between, and in food 165 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: plucks a big part of what I do. And guys, 166 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 1: I started disking and sol tests and fertilizer and herbicide 167 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: and kind of what I now called maximum input, but 168 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: worse than that, I only focused on what was above 169 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: the ground by this plants growing more tons, or deer 170 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: really eating this one, or you didn't like this one 171 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: too well or whatever. As I kind of moved through 172 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 1: my career, my wife Trace and I went to New 173 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,559 Speaker 1: Zealand to work with deer farmers short story, and they 174 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: were drawing these really funky broadly plants we all now 175 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:08,439 Speaker 1: know as brassicas, not just turn ups with many different 176 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: species in Nebraska family and and I actually brought some 177 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:13,839 Speaker 1: of them back and planted them on a project I 178 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: was doing in South Carolina for a couple of years 179 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: and noticed a bit of a weight gain and some 180 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:21,319 Speaker 1: other factors moving really quickly, and NAT turned into the 181 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 1: company Biologic partnered with Mossy Oak. They were great partners, 182 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: still really good friends with them, and designed all those 183 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: blends for several years and just had an opportunity to 184 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: sell my shares to Toxic. We're still buddies. And you know, 185 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: I was going to stuff mark meetings more than I 186 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 1: was being a field ballogist, and I'm a field ballogist 187 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: at heart so did that. And then here at my 188 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: place in Missouri, we've got a few acres of food 189 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: plots and like every other guy, trying to save money 190 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,679 Speaker 1: and you know, not put quite so much in them 191 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 1: and have better fraud to track more deer, blah blah blah, 192 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:55,679 Speaker 1: And just realized that plowing, planting whatever wasn't the best 193 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:57,680 Speaker 1: it could be. And about that time I started reading 194 00:09:57,679 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: a bunch of the ad guys kind of what you're 195 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 1: doing now, I'm trying find a better way, and come 196 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: across some guys and North Dakota all the way down 197 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,839 Speaker 1: to Florida that we're using what they call regenerative agg 198 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,719 Speaker 1: or regenerating the soil, improving the soil, and I I 199 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 1: kind of talked improving the soil. Men should go to 200 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:14,719 Speaker 1: the feeding and gets another buggy load of M P 201 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: and K and spread it on your pots. And these 202 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: guys were talking about looking at natural systems, and I 203 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 1: do a lot of native halftab management, prescribed fire, tumber 204 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: stand improvement, whatever, and replicating what was going on for 205 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 1: forage crops anyway in the native prairie. And that just 206 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: rang a huge bell with me because and and she's 207 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: twenty now. So several years ago, Uh, I had my 208 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:40,559 Speaker 1: oldest daughter when she was about three, and my wife 209 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: Tracy in Yellowstone. I was actually teaching some summer courses 210 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 1: they're back in the day, and we watched a huge 211 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: herd of bison and buffalo getting ready across the Yellowstone 212 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: River and there was a little calf standing right in 213 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: the front and there's hundreds of bison behind. They're getting across. 214 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: My little daughter scream and daddy goes say, but goes say, 215 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 1: of course, you know it had been in the death 216 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,199 Speaker 1: of DA didn't go out there. And uh. And by 217 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: the way, the cat made across the river just fine. 218 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:08,559 Speaker 1: But you know, I'm a biologist by training, and I'm 219 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 1: sitting there going, huh, you don't cross here much because 220 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: that many bison crossing this river would have massively eroded 221 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: banks and just scarred land. And it wasn't that way 222 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 1: at all. It was vegetation. And where the bison had 223 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 1: went was pummeled to the ground. I mean, you know, 224 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,959 Speaker 1: hundreds have heard of bison when you know fiftd pounds 225 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 1: on average, I'm guessing here two thousand pounds on average 226 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: whatever cows, gas bulls and where they walked they you know, 227 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: in group, not a single one. They pummeled that vegetation. 228 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 1: They trampled it into the ground, and they journated and 229 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: defecated a bunch. But they've been doing that forever in 230 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: that area. And if you've ever seen a beautiful meadow 231 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 1: and yellowstone, it's incredible for its fertile soil, beautiful in 232 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: a tough environment. And that really got me thinking along 233 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: with these other guys talking and writing about how rich 234 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 1: native prairies were. The remaining few acres excuse me, Naty Praier, 235 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: we had and I do a lot of prescribed fire here. 236 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,959 Speaker 1: We've cut about tunered acres of red cedar that just 237 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: was dense. You couldn't see why I hunt do anything. 238 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 1: We cut it, left in the place, didn't haul it off, 239 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 1: greate thing and burned it. And the state botanist and 240 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: I went one of these areas and only spent a 241 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 1: few hours and like all day, you know, looking everywhere 242 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: we could. We spent a few hours and identified a 243 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy six different species of native grasses and 244 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: fords flowering plants. Fords A hundred and seventy six, that's 245 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 1: that's rainforest diversity on an old south facing rocky slope 246 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,320 Speaker 1: and the Ozart Mountains Branson, Missouri for y'all to don't 247 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: know the other arts. So I leave by Branson, Missouri, 248 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: steve really rocky country, and I'm thinking, how can this 249 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 1: native habitat be so productive and so beautiful? Lots of 250 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 1: wildflowers bloom met and so productive, and it's kind of 251 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: putting all us all together. It was a result of 252 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 1: me terminating that vegetation. In this case, it wasn't buffalo 253 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 1: trampling and it was wildfire, but kind of terminating it 254 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 1: all at once and having tremendous species diversity, plant species diversity, 255 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: let alone, as I've learned later, all the beneficial insects 256 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: and that aasty word bacteria in the soa. So my 257 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: place is so rocky. Fortunately, in hindsight, I've never disc 258 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 1: a food plot here in seventeen years. I don't own 259 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 1: a disc. I've never owned a disk here. Everything has 260 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: been a no TELL drill. I couldn't afford one at first, 261 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: so I rented one from the county. Most counties across 262 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 1: America have an n RCS office and they rent no 263 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: TIL drills if you don't know that, and later just 264 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:25,079 Speaker 1: because boy, when you go to rent a drill of 265 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: its planting season and other people are trying to get 266 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 1: the drill, so we end up purchasing one. We have 267 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: one now for our own convenience of planting when we 268 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:36,079 Speaker 1: want anyway, So I never disturbed the soil more than 269 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: just a little slot where seeds are dropped in. If 270 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,840 Speaker 1: you're familiar with the no til drill, there's no till 271 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: that You're just making a slot and seed drop in. 272 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 1: And at first I was terminating that vegetation, whatever it 273 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: weeds or the pass drop, whatever it's her beside. And 274 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: then I figured out what the buffalo didn't use her 275 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: to side, And I did some reading online and I 276 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: worked with a grouping notes called URTP Outdoors. And I'm 277 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: not engineering at at all, folks, I'm a logic brained biologist. 278 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 1: Don't ask me to change your spark plugs or do 279 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: anything like that. And but they are great at that. 280 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 1: So I asked them to make me what I called 281 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: a still buffalo. Know they branded it called the Goliath Cripper, 282 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,839 Speaker 1: But to me, I wanted to replicate those buffalo going 283 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: across the Naty Prairie. So it's a basically like a roller. 284 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: It's but rather than the flat world where it's got 285 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: I don't know, six or seven inch metal flares that 286 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 1: are designed or all the way around about eight inches apart. 287 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: But they're not straight across it like you might think. 288 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: They're at a a almost like a triangle if you 289 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: older a slope one for on the other. So if 290 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: you can imagine this over voice, when the back of 291 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: one flayer leads the ground, the front of the next 292 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: player is already touching the ground that way, it's not bouncing. 293 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: If this was just like a comb if you will, 294 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 1: and everything's in a row, as your tractor pulled it 295 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 1: with any speed at all, and it was hit miss 296 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: hit miss, hit miss, and start bouncing off the ground. 297 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: And I wanted this to break at these stems of 298 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: the vegetation. Not breaking ap just crimp. It's called a crimper. 299 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: Crimp it about every eight inch or so. Because if 300 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: you stop the circulatory system of a plant or your 301 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: arm or whatever, it's going to die, you're terminating it. 302 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: So we went from using really candidly a lot of 303 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: round up two or three times a year, so now 304 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: we buy literally maybe about a tenth or what we 305 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: used to and we don't use it maybe once maybe 306 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 1: twice a year. And explain line a minute. So if 307 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: you would imagine this that's got the inspiration, that's just 308 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 1: a thirty thousand foot overview, then we'll get into it. 309 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: We've got like right now we're doing this, right now 310 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 1: are standing fall crop which had cereal grange, you know, wheat, ryo, 311 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: oats whatever. In Braskas. I've always got some brassas in there. 312 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: I know the benefits of them, Samani clovers and stuff 313 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: like that. And there maturing now that most people across 314 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: America were seeing the wheat heads or the cereal right 315 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: heads or the old heads starting to form. If you 316 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: squeeze them between your thumb, there's probably a little moisture 317 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: coming out. That's called the doe stage, and plants in 318 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: that stage are producing seeds die really easy. They're very 319 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 1: easily terminated. So we take our crimper to steal buffalo 320 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: and we pull it behind a tractor and it's cramping 321 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: the stems on average about every eight inches, maybe a 322 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 1: rock that skips since every sixteen or something. But it's 323 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 1: breaking that stem, that's not cutting it. Because like if 324 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: you cut grass that grows back. Right, like cut your yard, 325 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: it goes back. If you cut wheat until it d 326 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: really mature, it will try to grow back and compete 327 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: with the next crop you're going to plant. So we 328 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 1: use this cramper to replicate a her to buffalo. I'd 329 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 1: rather have buffalo. Some people use cattle to do this, 330 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: but I'm not running electric fence all the time, folks, 331 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 1: So I've got to use something mechanical. Uh, and trample 332 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: down if you will. It's cramper, trampled down the vegetation 333 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 1: and terminated. And then I started thinking about the Great 334 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: Prairie more and get learning from bag people, and we 335 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: would terminate it and then take our no childrill through there. 336 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: But if we didn't drive the same way, the crimper 337 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: had been pulled and bogged up a little bit. Right. 338 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 1: You're you're getting vegetation in the cultures and the you know, 339 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: in the disk, and it's bogging up. And I took 340 00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: it a little bit of skill. So start thinking about 341 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 1: and a lot of see needs on the prairie. A 342 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:04,640 Speaker 1: lot of the plants on my bedding areas here make 343 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: seed before I burn, and so they're falling to the 344 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: ground down in the duff I used to describe fire. 345 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: Those seeds are not consumed in the fire usually. Now 346 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 1: they're setting on pretty much bare or at least exposed soil. 347 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 1: It's not truly supposed because there's a big root system. 348 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 1: Fire only does from the ground up, done new thing, 349 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: blowed ground um, and those seeds germinate really rapidly, but 350 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:31,200 Speaker 1: they fail in a natural system before that vegetation was terminated. 351 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 1: So I started playing with my blends back in the 352 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,960 Speaker 1: day's of biologic Now I just do it for fun. 353 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 1: I started playing with my blends and coming up with 354 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,719 Speaker 1: with food plot blends cool season winter crops, fall crops 355 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: and warm season summer crops. Uh, that would mature about 356 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: the same time, or fifty buffalo system, if you will. 357 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 1: And so now I drill. I take my no till drill, 358 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: and I plant in that standing fall crop right here 359 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: at my place. Now it's been on the food plot. 360 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 1: It's four to six ft tall. I'm six ft one, 361 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,679 Speaker 1: and it's at my head top in some plots, and 362 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: I'm driving my tractor planting into luck. To a stranger, 363 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: might look like a weedy miss. My guys, you're putting 364 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 1: seeds in that jungle, and I let Right now, I'm 365 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 1: planning soybeans, and I let the soybeans germinate. This freaks 366 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 1: a lot of people out and get about four inches 367 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: tall in the second leaf stage, and they don't take 368 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 1: a lot because they're so young, they don't have to 369 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: have a nuch of nutrients. And son, you know they're 370 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: gonna grow. And about the time before inches tall, I've 371 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: already planned it. I've planned through standing crops, so there's 372 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 1: never a chance for erosion wind or water erosion. And 373 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: listen to this, hunters, there was always food out there. 374 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 1: I never cleaned the table my annual cobra. I got 375 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 1: bucks head down on annual cobra right now, and I'm 376 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: so pleased with the ant of growth. I'm already sin 377 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: because they've had food all year long. There was never 378 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 1: a day, not one day, there wasn't food my food plots. 379 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 1: I never disked, I never telled, I didn't kill it 380 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 1: with the herbicide. There was always food two and sixty 381 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: five days out the year. That gives you incredible ant. 382 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: Bear dirt doesn't feed any critters or any hoof critters anyway. 383 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 1: So and then after I've drilled and my feedlings are 384 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: up three four inches. I take my steel buffalo to 385 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: crimper to be live cripper and run right over that crop. 386 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: Because now the seedheads on last falls crop planted last 387 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 1: August here are so mature that dies real easy. And 388 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: while I run the crimper over, yeah, I'm running not 389 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 1: already these beans for inches tall. And the first time 390 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: you do it, you're going, oh my gosh, it's painful. Yeah, 391 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: but those plants are so young and pliable. They just 392 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,680 Speaker 1: popped back up, like driving across grass in your yard 393 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: and your wife goes, I can't believe you put those 394 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: tracks in the yard, and two days later you can't 395 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 1: even tell where you drove. Just plant stand back up. 396 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 1: Came away with young soybeans. So I wouldn't do this 397 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,159 Speaker 1: over a foot and half tall soybeans at all. But 398 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 1: young soy beans are so appliable. Other young crops the 399 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: same way, so appliable. They just stand backed up. And 400 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: now what I've done, just like the buffalo, I've created 401 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: this three to four inch thick mulch laying on the 402 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: drowned And there are many any wonderful features of moults 403 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:05,399 Speaker 1: that could never be accomplished when you plow the soil. 404 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: Never one is and and I didn't think about this 405 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: until I learned, and I don't think a lot of 406 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: guys think about it. It keeps the soil cool and 407 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:19,120 Speaker 1: warm so here. I planted soybeans on April tenth this year, 408 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: the earliest I've ever started planning by a month, and 409 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: right after it wasn't because I thought, well, guys, it's 410 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: gonna be warm spring. And I don't you know, the 411 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 1: farm's almanac and the National Weather Service, they don't never 412 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: see him to get this up right, and showed up 413 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,120 Speaker 1: two days after I planned, it got below forty degrees 414 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,159 Speaker 1: three nights in a row, and two thos had a 415 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 1: real code range, like, oh my guys, I've messed up. 416 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be replanting those and those fields are beautiful 417 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: right now, beautiful beautiful. I planned about two and twenty 418 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 1: thousand soybeans per acre. I never planted by weight, Folks, 419 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: I don't say, well, I plant fifty two pounds breaker, 420 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: because soybean seeds, even if you're using the same varriday 421 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 1: I everyone knows I work with the eagle seed. I 422 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,119 Speaker 1: plant their beans. But even even see or any varriety 423 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 1: if you've got a really wet year, to each individual 424 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:05,920 Speaker 1: bean pod would be bigger. You got a really dry year, 425 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: it will be smaller, and that makes the difference going 426 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: through your seed meter. So it's not fifty pounds of 427 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 1: beans is the same from year to year. Year. You 428 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 1: want to look at the seed count on the bag, 429 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 1: and a lot of folks I don't think, no this 430 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:21,400 Speaker 1: the federal government regulates. So for example, corn is always 431 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: sold at eighty thousand kernels. They sell by kernel count 432 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,200 Speaker 1: eighty thousand kernels per bag. If you're buying a legal 433 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: bag at corn in America, it has eighty thousand kernels 434 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: in it. It may weigh thirty two pounds and may 435 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 1: weeh forty one pounds, may weegh fifty pounds. Being on 436 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 1: the Briday, corn soy beans must be sold at a 437 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 1: hundred and forty thousand seeds per bag. The weight will change, 438 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,680 Speaker 1: but it's always one hundred forty thousand seeds per bag. 439 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: So I do some simple math, come up with how 440 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: many pounds I need to plan to get two hund 441 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: twenty thousand. I'm planning that a little bit of a 442 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: high rate because you know you're gonna be eaten some 443 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 1: groundhogs are gain some ravage, are going some after the 444 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 1: first month. I want to end up with a good population. 445 00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: That's why I'm planting a pretty high rate. I've pulled 446 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: it him for right over those beans, and I've now 447 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: got this motion. They're just like much in your garden. 448 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 1: There's almost no chance for a weed to grow. It's 449 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: under four or five inches of mulch. And then that's 450 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 1: just one thing. It cools the soil and it's hot. 451 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,679 Speaker 1: And I've done this test, We've published it. I have 452 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,679 Speaker 1: a pretty high dollar infrared gun that measure's temperature. I 453 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: can point it at your forehead, pointing at soil, point 454 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 1: at a car, and we all know it can be 455 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,879 Speaker 1: a pretty nice sentified degree day outside stun's been shining 456 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,119 Speaker 1: a little bit. You lean up against a dark colored 457 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 1: vehicle and you about burn your hand. Well, that's the 458 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 1: solar energy being collected by that dark color. The same 459 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:38,360 Speaker 1: is true, exact same is true on the soil you've got, 460 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,359 Speaker 1: you know, a brown, and on where you are, you know, 461 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,119 Speaker 1: maybe a black. You're lucky soil. And that's so I 462 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,199 Speaker 1: from Wally heat Up. I was amazed last summer on 463 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 1: a day and the morning, about nine am. That was 464 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,360 Speaker 1: seventy two degrees here and I took my gun out 465 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:54,920 Speaker 1: and listen to this this, folks, this is amazing. There was 466 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,159 Speaker 1: a little place where I turned the corner and my 467 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,120 Speaker 1: tractor tire and pushed all the multiway. So the soil 468 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,919 Speaker 1: is bear I try to never have bear soil for 469 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 1: many reasons. But the soil is bear by deal. Look 470 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,879 Speaker 1: turn and at nine am that soil the surface of 471 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: the soil was a hundred and thirty two degrees. This 472 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:14,399 Speaker 1: is published. You can see the video on top of 473 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,160 Speaker 1: the mulch close by. You know, I'm talking eight inches away, 474 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,360 Speaker 1: not across the field, eight inches way, so exact, same wind, xact, 475 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: same son, everything the same on top to mulch, which 476 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,120 Speaker 1: was a light ground. You know it's dead vegetation, thinking 477 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,400 Speaker 1: about dead grass. Dead vegetation been late in a month, 478 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 1: really light brown, bleached out. It was in the eighties. 479 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 1: Right beneath that mulch. Just take your fingers spread apart 480 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:35,439 Speaker 1: real quickly shined the gun on there, for it can 481 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 1: start heating up with seventy two degrees seventy two in July. 482 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 1: Now I want now, I want to share some data. 483 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: This is not my data. This is from my big 484 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: research university, Okay. At seventy degrees soil tempation, we're talking 485 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 1: surface soil tipasure. At seventy degrees, it's the ideal temperature 486 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: for most plants to grow. And on the moisture in 487 00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: the soil is available to the plant. None of it 488 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: is being lost to what's called evapo transporation or evaporate. 489 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: Now the soil at ninety degrees soil temperature, plant growth 490 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 1: definitely slows. It's stressed. Remember top of my soil without 491 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,440 Speaker 1: protection was a hundred thirty two degrees. At a hundred degrees, 492 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: just only fifteen percent of the moisture in the soil. 493 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,160 Speaker 1: We can't arrogate food clots, most of us can only 494 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: is available for plant growth is lost through evaporation. Evaporation 495 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: at a hundred and thirteen degrees soil temperature surface, some 496 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: species of bacteria start to die. Now mostly is all 497 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,199 Speaker 1: that's good year. It was dog on bacteria. You know, 498 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: bacteria kind of has a bad name. Uh, bacteria like 499 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,680 Speaker 1: the human body. Yeah, we we have we get six 500 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 1: from some bacteria, but we're covered every gainst by bacteria. 501 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 1: Never believe some cent kilar product folks. And I'm not 502 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: talking any brand that says kills hunercent bacteria, because if 503 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 1: you did, and you bathe the next stuff, you would 504 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 1: die in a matter of minutes. We have to have 505 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 1: bacteria on our body to live. Same with plants. There's 506 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: thousands of positive species of bacteria, beneficial species of bacteria 507 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: for everyone bad. And if you manage your soul right 508 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: by the way, the good ones will swamp out the 509 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 1: bad rooms to take care of it. You don't have 510 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 1: to use any chemicals. At a hundred thirty degrees a 511 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,120 Speaker 1: hundred and the moisture is lost, and a hundred forty 512 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,440 Speaker 1: degrees also, bacteria dives. You go from soil to dirt. 513 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 1: It's just chemicals down there. That's why keeping that soil 514 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:28,439 Speaker 1: temperture moderated it's so beneficial. So I'm in an area's 515 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,879 Speaker 1: really rocky soil, it's we're pretty prone to drought. We 516 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: can get a toomuch rain and five days later so 517 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 1: they can kind of dry out there. But since I've 518 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: started having this martial layer down, my plants can go 519 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: through much more of a drought than they used to 520 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: and not show any sign of stress. Because I'm conserving 521 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: soil moisture. It's not about getting more moisture. I can't 522 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: control the weather. I can't irrigate. It's about using the 523 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 1: rain and the snow that we get and saving it 524 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,120 Speaker 1: on site for when I do need it. And that's 525 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 1: why we all learned the seventh grade bology right, swamps 526 00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 1: and prairies and whatnot. They used to act like a 527 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: big spun range and then let it out as plants 528 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: or springs or whatever needed it. But when we disc 529 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: all the time that huntson that goes away, a hundson 530 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: that goes away. So once I was kind of learning 531 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 1: the biology or science behind that, I really started doing 532 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: more into this and my message. So my first step 533 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,680 Speaker 1: was keeping the soil covered as many days out of 534 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 1: year as possible, many days out of years as possible, 535 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: And that got me pretty much out of herbside game. 536 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,120 Speaker 1: Now I still use some herboside uh in my little 537 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:28,919 Speaker 1: small what I call hide old food plots. You know, 538 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: maybe a quarter acre, you know, a half acre pin one, 539 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: you are basically a hunting plot. Right, You've got a 540 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: little high go. Maybe it's a couple of yards from 541 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 1: bigger food plot. You call it a stage in area. 542 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: You can get there, not alert deer, and the deer 543 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 1: can move on to the big food plot. Now you're 544 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,120 Speaker 1: not alerting them when you get out of stand little 545 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,400 Speaker 1: highe old food plot. I plant those two. They're great 546 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 1: hunting strategies, but deer used them first, right because they're 547 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 1: very secure there, and so they eat all the fouds 548 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: to ground. I'm not building up a muties layer. Since 549 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 1: I'm not building up a mute layer and the deer 550 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 1: eating the vegetation, I don't have a canopy. Weeds are 551 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 1: gonna grow. Weeds are just nature's way of saying this 552 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: soil must be covered to be healthy. Nature doesn't diffriate, shape, differentiate, 553 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 1: excuse me, between a weed and a soy bean, or 554 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: a wheat or a braska. It just says I want 555 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: the soil covered because that's looks healthiest for the soil. 556 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: Otherwise I'm kind of erosion and moisture law. So weeds 557 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: are gonna grow, and there's weed seeds everywhere, folks everywhere everywhere. 558 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 1: Seeds are viable in the soil, some of them for decades, 559 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,639 Speaker 1: some of them for more than a hundred years. I 560 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: don't care what you do to soil, and I'll give you. 561 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 1: Perfect example, I used to panty to all the deer 562 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 1: at Callaway Gardens, big fancy golf place just out of Atlanta, Georgia, 563 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: and the family makes some choices were poor big golf 564 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 1: courses there. He's like legalized poaching right arount night with 565 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 1: spotlight shooting deer to eating up all the pansies and 566 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: zelius and stuff. And and they let one golf course go, 567 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 1: and and golf courses if you don't know this, get 568 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: more herbicide and secticide, fungicide, whatever side do you want 569 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,920 Speaker 1: to talk about, than anywhere more than actilous, because the 570 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 1: guys keep it looking perfect, and it takes a lot 571 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 1: of synthetic inputs to keep it looking that way a lot. 572 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 1: And let one golf course go that spring that fall 573 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,120 Speaker 1: when we started collecting, a nice way of saying legalized 574 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 1: poaching collecting deer. That golf course was eight feet tall 575 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 1: in ragweed and all kind of even nasty weeds and 576 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: ragweed because they hadn't been pining all those chemical inputs. 577 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 1: And nature will cover the soil somehow, It will cover 578 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 1: the soil. So I figured out that covered the soil 579 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,640 Speaker 1: was good. And I started learning that not all back 580 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:27,440 Speaker 1: too is bad like most of us. A talktor is 581 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 1: really good. Back to your soil again. Remember I spent 582 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: most of my career looking at above the ground. Now 583 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: I'm about focused onlats below the ground, because that's that 584 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: determines how well above the ground does. Can you expand 585 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: on why soil health matters and what that translates and 586 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: and I think you're probably about together before I interrupted you, 587 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 1: But also what makes healthy soil? I know there's a 588 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 1: whole lot going on underneath or you've alluded to it, 589 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: but um, but I mean I would love to hear 590 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: better understand the why. Okay, yeah, so soil health is 591 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: obviously you know, soil level and bloil a lot of it, 592 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 1: and it matters because you know, again the natyve prairies. 593 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,040 Speaker 1: Where does everyone want to dear hunt? Right? I look, 594 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: if we're honest, Iowa, Kansas, Indiana, the big prairie states 595 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 1: I live in. Others aren't melansinsuf Timber And it's my 596 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 1: home and I love it. But I should do like 597 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 1: a week and hunting out in Kansas every now and 598 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: then make me feel like a better hunter and see 599 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: bigger dude. So those states are banking on are using 600 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: what was developed for hundreds of years by buffalo and 601 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:36,240 Speaker 1: wildfire and tremendous plant diversity, creating healthy soil and healthy soil. First, 602 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 1: the appearance should look like really rich chocolate cake. Really 603 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 1: rich chocolate cake is moist and has a lot of structure, 604 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: has all the pores in it. It's not just like 605 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: solid flour. There's space in between, there's pores. It's kind 606 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: of light and fluffy. That's exactly what good quality, healthy 607 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,480 Speaker 1: soil should look like. It's dark, and it's dark, folks, 608 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 1: not because of where you are on the planet that 609 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 1: stay live dark because of the amount of carbon content. 610 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 1: And every time we disc or till soil, we allow 611 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 1: massive amounts of carbon to go into the air. You 612 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 1: probably heard about carbon and the arena or he start 613 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: seeing a lot of nasty email. I'm not a great 614 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 1: big you know, global climate change, carbon summits, whatever, whatever, 615 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 1: I'm mistaking the facts that when you tell carbon leaves 616 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 1: the soil by huge quantities, and carbon is the number 617 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: one element of plant life. Everyone talks about nitrogen, phosphor fascium, 618 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 1: carbon out system, plants dead period that day, Um, I 619 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 1: have found my soils went from kind of a light 620 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 1: tan about the color of a wooden turkey pop call 621 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 1: to chocolate. And that space in between is critical for 622 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 1: the right amount of air and water to infiltrate the soil. 623 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 1: Infiltrate the soil again saving water, not counting on the 624 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: rain next week, because we know sometimes during summer that's 625 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: not gonna happen. Saving the water we get the soil 626 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 1: is actually a little spongy, and it's got the right 627 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 1: amount space for roots to work really well and for 628 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: he's beneficial. As I talked to or your bacteria single celled, 629 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:10,400 Speaker 1: multi cell organisms and then the ever critical man and 630 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 1: I tell folks this and they just they think, no, boy, 631 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 1: that woods guy even idiot. I kind of went from 632 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 1: a deer manager listening to folks to an earthworm manager 633 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 1: because earthworms, I mean, this is so serious, right, earthworm 634 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: are the most important thing for building healthy soil. I 635 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 1: want to just share a couple of numbers with you. 636 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 1: And this research is out of Penn State, but it's 637 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 1: been redone by bunch of universities. You've got a pretty 638 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 1: healthy earthworm population. You think about earthworms are work, you 639 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: know they're working twenty four seven three sixty five and 640 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 1: they winter the working deeper, warm and moist, are working 641 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: pretty shallow. They errate the soil. They decompact to soil. 642 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 1: No tractor can ever fracture or reduce soil compaction as 643 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 1: well as earthworms don't. Actor's gonna touch every inch. If 644 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 1: you've got a tiller, you flock the top watch six 645 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: eight ten inches. But now you've got your tiller set, 646 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 1: but right below that you're making tremendous compaction. And I'm 647 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 1: gonna tell everyone how to prove that to your cells, 648 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 1: because it may not believe me. The standard test is 649 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 1: you get a half insteel robbed like a piece of 650 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 1: reed ball or something, something that's solid on the end, 651 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 1: not hollow like a type, and you're just putting your 652 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: weight off. You just kind of leaning on and pushing 653 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 1: on it. You're not standing on one hand or something. 654 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 1: And it should go through the soil just fine. And 655 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:26,720 Speaker 1: when it just all of a sudden stops and you 656 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: didn't hit a rock, that's your hard pain layer and 657 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 1: it will always be just an inches. Toube blow where 658 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,360 Speaker 1: you disk or where you till, like a rhodo killer. 659 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 1: And the reason is think about a tractor moving forward 660 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,600 Speaker 1: and it's pulling that implement behind. So the physics are 661 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 1: such that a lot of the way the tractor is 662 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 1: being transferred to that implement. And on a disk, the 663 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: disc is you know, eight inch quarter inch wide, so 664 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 1: tremendous amounts of weight are being applied to that very 665 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,960 Speaker 1: thin space, and it absolutely compacts the soil blow words 666 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,400 Speaker 1: working so it earns the top, releases a bunch of carbon, 667 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,840 Speaker 1: kills all soil structure kills it. You took something that 668 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,960 Speaker 1: was loose and now you grind it up and it 669 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 1: just settles. You actually can shrink soil. You can reduce 670 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: to height the soil by killing it. And then also 671 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 1: by the way, we're talking about earth worms, when you 672 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 1: do that, you kill millions of millions of earth lumps. 673 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,080 Speaker 1: You grind them up, makes a little bit of fertilizer, 674 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 1: but not as much if you've got them breeding, making 675 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 1: more eth lerms and pooping all the time. That's why 676 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,120 Speaker 1: I never feel I almost refused to help any client 677 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 1: that tells anymore, because I know so much better. I'm 678 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,560 Speaker 1: talking lines like I go work on their land. So 679 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: a typical earth worm population can easily easily pop out 680 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: to not be crude. Two tons a poopy year prayer 681 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,600 Speaker 1: two tons. Now, if y'all are sitting at home and 682 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,160 Speaker 1: you google stuff mark right now and you want to 683 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 1: buy vermic culture, vermic culture is very expensive fertilizer, this 684 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 1: worm food. There are farms that do nothing but collect 685 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,280 Speaker 1: worm food in big troughs and sell it as vermic 686 00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 1: culture for playing people either farmer, big scale farmers or 687 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,360 Speaker 1: eat a house plant people. And it's right now about 688 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,640 Speaker 1: fifteen dollars for two or three pounds. And just think 689 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 1: you've got a healthy earthling population as you can get 690 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 1: two tons, and that's the logan or more of that 691 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,520 Speaker 1: applied break or just by letting the worm suitor thing 692 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,560 Speaker 1: walk to wormsy decomposing plant material goes back to that 693 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 1: buffalo or the crimper laying vegetation down, not when you 694 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 1: disc it in. You old farmers talked about green manure 695 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,440 Speaker 1: and you disc it in the soil, well, then he's 696 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:30,960 Speaker 1: got so much air going in here with it that 697 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 1: that green manure breaks down really quickly. When you lay 698 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,960 Speaker 1: the multi layer down with a crimper or i e. 699 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 1: Buffalo trampling it, it decomposes really slowly, which prevents weeds 700 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 1: from German eating and slowly makes worm food all summer long. 701 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,759 Speaker 1: The worms will come up, grab a little bit e 702 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 1: piece of the decomposing vegetation, take it down in the 703 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 1: soil and eat it. They're varying the mults for you 704 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,760 Speaker 1: at just the perfect speed. And this is so amazing. 705 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:06,879 Speaker 1: Now you have the world's best, perfect, perfect slow release fertilizer, 706 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 1: and the worms are doing it for you. In species 707 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,920 Speaker 1: of bacteria too, they're doing it for you. And in 708 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:16,120 Speaker 1: another factor we've you've probably heard of tea or compost, 709 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,040 Speaker 1: molt molting compost and the tea that's the water that 710 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: drips off that. Some people raise one little home compost 711 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,480 Speaker 1: and they catch the water come out of bottom, put 712 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 1: that on their plants and they grow amazingly. Right, you've 713 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,520 Speaker 1: got this multi layer on top of the ground. If 714 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,960 Speaker 1: it doesn't rain and it's dry, your plants don't need 715 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,480 Speaker 1: much fertilizer because they're not growing because there's lack of moisture. 716 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,399 Speaker 1: The rains a little, they grow a little, range a lot, 717 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,759 Speaker 1: they grow more. You've got this must layer on top 718 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,440 Speaker 1: and when the rain goes through it, it takes minute 719 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,200 Speaker 1: amounts of nutrients m P n K and all the 720 00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:49,239 Speaker 1: trade mentals down into the soil. If it doesn't rain, 721 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,920 Speaker 1: it doesn't release any nutrients. If it rains a lot, 722 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:56,400 Speaker 1: it releases more nutrients. This is the perfect time release fertilizer. 723 00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 1: No system can be better, no manmade system can be better. 724 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:01,799 Speaker 1: And you can do it in the food pot. That's 725 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,439 Speaker 1: what amazes me. So at my place, literally I wish 726 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,040 Speaker 1: we were showing graphics here my soul test. So it's 727 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:09,600 Speaker 1: like I'm in the middle of eye, but most of 728 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,600 Speaker 1: my fields are at the high are very high level 729 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,480 Speaker 1: of all nutrients. I pay for a fourteen way nutrient 730 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,920 Speaker 1: test every year. I test every food pot for research purposes. 731 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:24,480 Speaker 1: And I haven't added any line, any fertilizer, synthetic or 732 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,600 Speaker 1: organic like poltry litter in six years. No expense, no 733 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,800 Speaker 1: attractive time, no paying the contract or, no buying the product, 734 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,759 Speaker 1: no running order soil and compacting it. More time to 735 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,360 Speaker 1: turkey hunt, more time to mushroom hunt, more time to 736 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,200 Speaker 1: fish because I don't have to spread any line or 737 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,880 Speaker 1: fertilizer at all. Now my plans to do it, and 738 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,680 Speaker 1: let's go ahead. Sorry, I was gonna say. Now there 739 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,399 Speaker 1: might be people here in this and they're thinking, well, 740 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,520 Speaker 1: that's all great, and good quality soil sounds like a 741 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,719 Speaker 1: good thing to have, etcetera, etcetera. But they might be 742 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:58,640 Speaker 1: wondering what does this mean for the deer and the wildlife? 743 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:01,359 Speaker 1: Does good soil quite to anything else? And I've I've 744 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:06,320 Speaker 1: heard you say that plants are the ultimate nutrient transfer agents, 745 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,360 Speaker 1: and I've heard you talk about how how good soil 746 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,400 Speaker 1: equals good food equals a law Hunters are interested in 747 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,880 Speaker 1: which is healthier and or larger deer, maybe a better attraction. 748 00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,040 Speaker 1: Does all this stuff that we're doing to the soil, 749 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:24,440 Speaker 1: maintaining moisture, improving organic matter, etcetera, etcetera, does all that 750 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,600 Speaker 1: lead to better outputs for wildlife too? Yeah? Absolutely, I 751 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:30,440 Speaker 1: want to face there's just one last thing. If you're 752 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,040 Speaker 1: getting a starter system and you've been using mpn K 753 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,440 Speaker 1: or synthetic inputs, it's like an addiction to your soul 754 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:38,680 Speaker 1: and you can't stop all once. So I advise people 755 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,279 Speaker 1: all the time. If you've been doing that, that's fine, 756 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:44,280 Speaker 1: we all learn that's that's awesome. Reduce your synthetic inputs 757 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,160 Speaker 1: by twenty don't do it all at once, because you 758 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,360 Speaker 1: don't have the bacteria to earth worms to build up, 759 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,480 Speaker 1: and it takes those populations of the wall built. So 760 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,319 Speaker 1: if you're doing it, do a soul test the first year, 761 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,920 Speaker 1: apply hunt get a good base. Second year, apply seventy 762 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,520 Speaker 1: five cent. Not about old soil tests of new soil. 763 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,719 Speaker 1: Test because your soul is changing. Third years, you know, 764 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,520 Speaker 1: drop it, knock it down by twenty cent a year 765 00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,680 Speaker 1: and wean off. Otherwise you will not like the results. 766 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,680 Speaker 1: Healthy soil is full of not just the nutrients, but 767 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,040 Speaker 1: all the micro nutrients, not just the mpn K, all 768 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,919 Speaker 1: the micros because these billions, and I want to paint 769 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,440 Speaker 1: a picture here. If you have healthy soil, you're feeding 770 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:26,280 Speaker 1: these bacteria, protozoa, earth worms, beetles, other critters the equivalent 771 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,360 Speaker 1: of about the weight of two elephants a year per acre. 772 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,279 Speaker 1: That's why I said, you can't go this all once. 773 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,320 Speaker 1: You're gonna be mulch on your soil. You've been disking, 774 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,759 Speaker 1: you've been adding n think whatever. And when you have 775 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,440 Speaker 1: a really healthy soil life, we're gonna call it all 776 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,160 Speaker 1: the earth turns, bacteria everything below the soil. They're consuming 777 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,080 Speaker 1: about the weight of two elephants a year, and they're 778 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,759 Speaker 1: getting that from plant matter and really deep rocks. Maybe 779 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,080 Speaker 1: mi place is not very deep, some place to ten deep, 780 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,560 Speaker 1: and they're breaking down that rock and bringing those nutrients 781 00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,239 Speaker 1: to the surface. If you've seen, and almost everyone's seen, 782 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,839 Speaker 1: this tree growing out of a solid rock buffalo, how 783 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:04,560 Speaker 1: they cut or something. You're going, man, how does that 784 00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,879 Speaker 1: tree do that? It's doing up by these things I'm 785 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:11,960 Speaker 1: talking about bacteria living there helping that tree break down 786 00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,520 Speaker 1: the rock and converted to a usable form for the tree. 787 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,320 Speaker 1: When you have really healthy soil, you have healthier plants. Everyone, 788 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,680 Speaker 1: almost everyone has watched a deer sniff acorns, passed one, 789 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,279 Speaker 1: eat one, walk twenty ft into a bean field and 790 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,520 Speaker 1: eat a leaf here e leaf, here e leaf here. 791 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,040 Speaker 1: Only cattle just staying there need everything in front of them. 792 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,240 Speaker 1: Wild animals are very picky feeders, and most scientists believe 793 00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:39,320 Speaker 1: they sense either through light refraction into their eyes, smell, 794 00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,600 Speaker 1: a combination of both, whatever which plant leaves are healthier. 795 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:44,759 Speaker 1: So let me take that step further. You've got a 796 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,480 Speaker 1: one acre soybean field, they eat every dog on plant 797 00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,840 Speaker 1: and leaf and stem out there. You're in Iowa and 798 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,200 Speaker 1: you've got a forty acre bean field or forty acre 799 00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,399 Speaker 1: bean filled here eat the edges, of course, because they're 800 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,520 Speaker 1: sensing opinion predations around at nighttime. They're feeding all over 801 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:00,000 Speaker 1: that field, your feet not in the middle, and they're 802 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,600 Speaker 1: eating one leaf at a time, going to the next 803 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,160 Speaker 1: best leave. So you grow the biggest deer where they 804 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,800 Speaker 1: can be extremely selective feeders on the high quality vegetation. 805 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,759 Speaker 1: I'll be the first to admit of one acre food 806 00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:11,960 Speaker 1: plot is never as good as a forty acre bean 807 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,160 Speaker 1: field because on forty acre bean field they don't have 808 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,359 Speaker 1: to eat any disease plants, insect and pack the plants. 809 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,520 Speaker 1: They're just picking the very best leaves. They're eating the 810 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,239 Speaker 1: very best. But on a one acre food plot that 811 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,200 Speaker 1: had n p n K, there's a lot of petroleum 812 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,880 Speaker 1: products in mp n K synthetic fertilizer versus a natural 813 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,160 Speaker 1: healthy fertilizer. There's no doubt which one is more palatable. 814 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:34,520 Speaker 1: And this is shown an all kind of text and 815 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:36,680 Speaker 1: a really easy one. It's called a bricks b r 816 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,839 Speaker 1: i X test. That major is a real simple major. 817 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,160 Speaker 1: I have a bridge meater we use on our phone. Majors. 818 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,560 Speaker 1: This sugar content of plants. Do you have a sweet tooth? 819 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,720 Speaker 1: We all know that the sugar the more sugar CONTENTA 820 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,400 Speaker 1: plan is usually the healthier it is you want to 821 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,600 Speaker 1: have deer to just I mean, man, they're just men. 822 00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:54,640 Speaker 1: They can't wait to get in that food plot. Have 823 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,960 Speaker 1: really healthy plants, and healthy plants require really healthy soil. 824 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,000 Speaker 1: If you're putting a bunch N P and K made 825 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:02,799 Speaker 1: off of patrolling products out there, what do you think 826 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,560 Speaker 1: your plans tastes like? Now there? Deary, deary, sure they do. 827 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:07,520 Speaker 1: You know, I don't really like sushi, But if I'm 828 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:09,520 Speaker 1: the last guy on the boat and all that's left 829 00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,520 Speaker 1: of sushi, I'm gonna eat sushi. And that's kind of 830 00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,640 Speaker 1: way deer are too. So yeah, on my place, my 831 00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,439 Speaker 1: deer are bigger. I'm in the Ozart Mountains just north 832 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,160 Speaker 1: of Branson, Missouri. A lot of people been to Branson. Uh. 833 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,239 Speaker 1: My property is split by two counties, Stone named appropriately 834 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,880 Speaker 1: in Kaney County Stone and Taney County. Our record for 835 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,600 Speaker 1: both counties combined recorded Now not all deer recorded, I 836 00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:36,040 Speaker 1: granted when at but like hunters, like the brags, a 837 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,840 Speaker 1: lot of deer are. Our record in all of the 838 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:42,040 Speaker 1: records keeping for these two counties is a hundred and 839 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:45,200 Speaker 1: thirty one inch pop and young no booden crocketts. None. 840 00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:47,360 Speaker 1: You think if they're killing a lot of booden crocketts, 841 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,880 Speaker 1: somebody would have recorded one over time back when I 842 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,680 Speaker 1: used to be really popular. Our best deer tag, not 843 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,040 Speaker 1: our best deer grown, our best deer tag. There's a 844 00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,640 Speaker 1: hundred seventy three inches. We produce multiple hundred fifty inch 845 00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,279 Speaker 1: deer every year. We slam the rest of the county. 846 00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,960 Speaker 1: I'm not bragging. We've improved our soil or deer really healthy. 847 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,719 Speaker 1: More phones for dough. I cannot kill enough dose here. 848 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,920 Speaker 1: I have really healthy deer. We struggle to get our 849 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,960 Speaker 1: dear population back in check and we shoot it. We're 850 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:16,680 Speaker 1: not like, well, we're gonna wait after about to start 851 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,160 Speaker 1: killing dose. We tag every day we can, from September 852 00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:22,680 Speaker 1: or fifteenth from boat season opens for January fifteen coses. 853 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,480 Speaker 1: Our deer herd is extremely productive because we have very 854 00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:31,239 Speaker 1: healthy soil perfect. I mean, the testimonies extremely clear. And 855 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,560 Speaker 1: some of the farmers I know they're using regenerity bag 856 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,320 Speaker 1: or the buffalo system. Good Nou's great and something. You know, 857 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:39,120 Speaker 1: a lot of my farmers are really busy. They don't 858 00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,720 Speaker 1: take a lot of time to hunt. Man The bucks 859 00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,840 Speaker 1: are producing an amount of pheasants a producing that quality. 860 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:49,439 Speaker 1: Those pheasant a's and the survival rates are incredible. There's 861 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,160 Speaker 1: no doubt about folks. Another way to look at this 862 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:55,400 Speaker 1: is most estaments believed by the researchers that really study 863 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,880 Speaker 1: this stuff. There was about sixty million buffalo just to 864 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,160 Speaker 1: the Great Prairie. You know, there were woods and buffalover 865 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,520 Speaker 1: in South Carolina, Tennessee. They're in Buffalo and every state 866 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,680 Speaker 1: literally not now, of course, sixty million buffalo in the 867 00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,960 Speaker 1: Great Prairie. That's way more than we have cattle right 868 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:15,239 Speaker 1: now on feedlocks. There's no question how productive soils can 869 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:17,920 Speaker 1: be if they're managed as they were meant to be managed. 870 00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:21,480 Speaker 1: So I'm going more times per acre of higher quality 871 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:25,000 Speaker 1: food with less inputs. Big cost savings. I imagine the 872 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,839 Speaker 1: long run with that, right, big big cost savings. Now, 873 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,600 Speaker 1: you know trasing, I did get a no till drills. 874 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:32,960 Speaker 1: That's a big hit. But you think about over time, 875 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:36,239 Speaker 1: no herbicide, no fertilizer. Must guys, you know, if you've 876 00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:38,120 Speaker 1: got an ag or two food pot, no, you're not 877 00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,480 Speaker 1: really justified here. What you might do is give it 878 00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:43,000 Speaker 1: two or three buddies and buy a smaller drill so 879 00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:44,640 Speaker 1: you can share the costs and have it when you 880 00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:46,279 Speaker 1: want it. Like I'm starting to see a lot more 881 00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:50,040 Speaker 1: people do that. Uh, but for me an the amount 882 00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:52,680 Speaker 1: of food pot acres I manage. Man. Yeah, the drill 883 00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:58,879 Speaker 1: is paid for itself many times over by the cost saving. Yeah. Yeah, 884 00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:03,960 Speaker 1: So we're we're reducing costs, we are retaining moisture, we're 885 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,759 Speaker 1: improving the quality of the soil. All these different things 886 00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,920 Speaker 1: beneath the surface are leading to a much higher quality plant, 887 00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,480 Speaker 1: which leads to healthier deer. And you're doing all this 888 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:18,399 Speaker 1: kind of in in step with how nature design things 889 00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,440 Speaker 1: to be, So you're having all these other larger kind 890 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,920 Speaker 1: of ecosystem benefits to the to the to the rest 891 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,319 Speaker 1: of the wildlife around there too. I'm sure that there's 892 00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:30,319 Speaker 1: some benefits to a whole slew of different species. From 893 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,520 Speaker 1: everything I've read and from everything I've heard you say, 894 00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:36,160 Speaker 1: this seems like an absolute no brainer if we're willing 895 00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:38,960 Speaker 1: to get past like the normal status quo, if we're 896 00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,279 Speaker 1: willing to say, Okay, yes, that kind of worked in 897 00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,279 Speaker 1: the past, but this seems to be a just a 898 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:48,000 Speaker 1: much more holistically better process to go through. Um. Some 899 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:50,440 Speaker 1: of my next questions then are and you've you've alluded 900 00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:52,280 Speaker 1: to little bits and pieces of this as we go along. 901 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,200 Speaker 1: But I'd like to talk start from this from the 902 00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,400 Speaker 1: very beginning and walk through each step, And that is 903 00:44:57,760 --> 00:44:59,959 Speaker 1: how do I actually do this? And that's the question 904 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,759 Speaker 1: I'm asking right now because I want to start doing 905 00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,600 Speaker 1: this now. I've got a couple of food plots planted 906 00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,759 Speaker 1: on a property that has been you know, managed conventionally. 907 00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:11,239 Speaker 1: Right I've typically just ran. I've got one perennial food plot, 908 00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,480 Speaker 1: but the other two are our annuals. So basically it 909 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,080 Speaker 1: goes to weeds in the spring and summer, I spread 910 00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:17,560 Speaker 1: a couple of times, try and knock them down, and 911 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:19,840 Speaker 1: then in August I plant some kind of fall blend 912 00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,840 Speaker 1: of of of cool season crops. But I want to 913 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,320 Speaker 1: stop doing that now. So right now I've got a 914 00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:29,320 Speaker 1: couple somewhat barren chunks of dirt with the beginnings of 915 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,600 Speaker 1: some weeds starting to grow. What would you if we're 916 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,960 Speaker 1: gonna do this and start the buffalo method, how would 917 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,600 Speaker 1: I start it and walk me through each step from 918 00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:42,120 Speaker 1: from today if you could? Okay, so let's start today. 919 00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:46,080 Speaker 1: We're talking springing and being really candid. Most soils in 920 00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,719 Speaker 1: America are degraded. Therefore they're very weighty and nutrient core. 921 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:52,640 Speaker 1: So step one is I'm gonna take a soil test 922 00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,400 Speaker 1: and just see Ryan, and I want to see you know, 923 00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:58,839 Speaker 1: nitrogens have streaming ballatole. May I add that above every 924 00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,920 Speaker 1: acre on the planet are more than thirty tons of 925 00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,879 Speaker 1: nitrogen in the air. The air we breathe is over 926 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:09,239 Speaker 1: sevent nitrogen. Now, nitrogen would kill us, but fortunately our 927 00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:11,560 Speaker 1: body is created to breathe it in and excelled out. 928 00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,879 Speaker 1: None of them stays. Nitrogen has a three way bond. 929 00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,640 Speaker 1: It's extremely strong and our lungs can't break it, so 930 00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:18,600 Speaker 1: it goes in and goes back out. But when I 931 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:22,440 Speaker 1: learned that I had thirty tons of nitrogen for free 932 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,440 Speaker 1: in the air, and all I had to do is 933 00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,440 Speaker 1: make sure always had some lagoons in my blends summer 934 00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,800 Speaker 1: and fall, I can put that nitrogen soil and not 935 00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:34,040 Speaker 1: pay for anymore nitrogen. Grant is a happy camper and 936 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:35,960 Speaker 1: that's what I have not And then when you build 937 00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:39,799 Speaker 1: organic matter this mulch on top, it's stores nitrogen better 938 00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,120 Speaker 1: than any of the system non demand. So I'm out 939 00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:45,359 Speaker 1: of nitrogen bid business. Period. You're starting with let's just say, 940 00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,359 Speaker 1: let's call wall is degraded. Soil has probably been disclogue 941 00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,960 Speaker 1: at lower earth worm population. By the way, folks, an 942 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:54,520 Speaker 1: easy test when you're starting, take your shovel. Nothing beats 943 00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,800 Speaker 1: boots on the ground. Nothing normal science beats boots on 944 00:46:57,880 --> 00:46:59,880 Speaker 1: the ground out in your food pot. Just think us 945 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,800 Speaker 1: innag shovel or some people called a spade. Pop you 946 00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,200 Speaker 1: over a big shovel ful of dirt and see are 947 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,600 Speaker 1: there holes in there? You can tell earthrum channels are lazy, 948 00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:09,800 Speaker 1: or there holes in there where earth lums are. And 949 00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,000 Speaker 1: you should be seeing if the soil's moist, not you know, 950 00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,320 Speaker 1: in a big drought, but it's pretty moist. And a 951 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:18,560 Speaker 1: shovel fool you should find a minimum of five. And 952 00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,080 Speaker 1: like last year, in one sollfool here in the olds 953 00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,879 Speaker 1: are mountains, folks, we found thirty six earth looms three 954 00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:27,239 Speaker 1: dozen and one shovelful three dozen. And really, honestly, when 955 00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,680 Speaker 1: I bought the place, I couldn't flip enough ROMs and 956 00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,400 Speaker 1: find enough firms to take my kids fishing. Literally Now 957 00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:35,520 Speaker 1: I got three dozen that day anyway, in one shovel fool. 958 00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:37,600 Speaker 1: And it's not uncommon to find ten or so on 959 00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:40,640 Speaker 1: the shovel fuel every time I go out there. So anyway, 960 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:42,839 Speaker 1: if you're not seeing earth worms, so we know we're 961 00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,560 Speaker 1: starting the ground zero. That's just a really easy indicator 962 00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:48,520 Speaker 1: of billions of beneficial species about tree, and I do 963 00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:50,920 Speaker 1: mean billions. If you've got that, you may want you 964 00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:53,200 Speaker 1: gotta do a soil testing. If your soil test results 965 00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:55,400 Speaker 1: come back very low, you probably kind of want to 966 00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,000 Speaker 1: add a little n PNK to first year. Now you 967 00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,320 Speaker 1: make a decisions, man, amnest solely committed to the buffalo system. 968 00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,799 Speaker 1: Then I'm gonna add of what's recommended for that crop. 969 00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:06,279 Speaker 1: And by the way, when you do a soil test, 970 00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:09,440 Speaker 1: always tell the lab I'm gonna plant soybeans, dr I'm 971 00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:12,800 Speaker 1: playing a cereal grain blend or whatever. Because recommendations differ 972 00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,160 Speaker 1: by the crop you're going to plant, so you tell 973 00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,360 Speaker 1: them what I do. I say, I'm know plants soybeans, 974 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,480 Speaker 1: Gonna plants soybeans every summer, or at least something in 975 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:22,160 Speaker 1: the window soybeans, and I plant small grains in the fall. 976 00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,400 Speaker 1: So I get two recommendations I sold to us once 977 00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,360 Speaker 1: a year. My next step is if I've got a 978 00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,720 Speaker 1: bunch of noxious weeds, out there. I'm not just talking ragged, 979 00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,080 Speaker 1: but you've got some bad stuff, maybe horse nettle or 980 00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:34,640 Speaker 1: pig weed or something like that. You're gonna have to 981 00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:38,919 Speaker 1: control that with herbicide. You're compensating for decades of mismanagement. 982 00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,879 Speaker 1: You're not just gonna start all at once, so you're 983 00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,000 Speaker 1: gonna be probably the first year or two maybe use 984 00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,120 Speaker 1: a little herbicide. So I'm gonna plant my first if 985 00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,359 Speaker 1: I'm planning starting this in the springtime, you know, once 986 00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:52,520 Speaker 1: my first crop almost always is round up ready soybeans. 987 00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:54,879 Speaker 1: So if I have a weed column, I can get 988 00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,200 Speaker 1: on top of it and not let more weed seeds 989 00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:00,200 Speaker 1: develop in that top little bit of soil profile. I'm 990 00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:02,680 Speaker 1: going through the still that i've got, but I'm not 991 00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:07,160 Speaker 1: disking the soil period period. I'm gonna rent a no 992 00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,400 Speaker 1: til drill. I'm gonna purchase a no tell drill. I'm 993 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,600 Speaker 1: gonna get the buddy and you know, buddy up on 994 00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,320 Speaker 1: the nochel drill. Some deer coops now or buying the 995 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,040 Speaker 1: no ChIL drill for the co op, which I think 996 00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:19,160 Speaker 1: is an awesome system. I'm not using no til drill, 997 00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:23,080 Speaker 1: and that does minimal soul disturbance. Unless the soil start healing. 998 00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,960 Speaker 1: We can't kill the soil by disking. Disking always degrade 999 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,640 Speaker 1: soil period always. Did you know the average solos per 1000 00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:34,960 Speaker 1: acre in Awa is about five thousand pounds per year. 1001 00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,120 Speaker 1: That's the most valuable consona of any farming. You can 1002 00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:42,200 Speaker 1: google these folks. That's the most valuable thing the farmer 1003 00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:45,880 Speaker 1: owns is a soil, not as tractor, not as silos, 1004 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,160 Speaker 1: not as barns. It's a soil that keeps him in business. 1005 00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:51,920 Speaker 1: And they don't treat it that way. Okay, soil box. 1006 00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:57,720 Speaker 1: So I'm going to control existing weeds, maybe there's fescue. 1007 00:49:57,719 --> 00:49:59,719 Speaker 1: Maybe you're starting with a pastor that's real tom and 1008 00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,480 Speaker 1: food practice. I'm going control those existing weeds with the herbicide, 1009 00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:08,759 Speaker 1: and I'm going to drill right into that terminated vegetation. Man, 1010 00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:13,040 Speaker 1: Sorry I started to interject, but really quick question on 1011 00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,680 Speaker 1: that front before we dive too much further on the 1012 00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,880 Speaker 1: drilling side. What if what if there just isn't a 1013 00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:20,960 Speaker 1: way to get a drill. I don't I can't afford it. 1014 00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:22,920 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have buddies. I can't get one 1015 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:25,399 Speaker 1: from the NRCS office because they're they're all booked out. 1016 00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:27,719 Speaker 1: I've heard a few people talk about ways to kind 1017 00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:32,040 Speaker 1: of implement this with broadcasting and some other alterations. Can 1018 00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,040 Speaker 1: you speak to that at all? Sure? Yeah, I had 1019 00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,399 Speaker 1: actually had that email question this morning from a guy 1020 00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:39,359 Speaker 1: in Michigan. UM So, hey, Daniel, if you after listen, 1021 00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,360 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about again. Um So, a lot of 1022 00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:43,959 Speaker 1: people like that. You know, they got a two acre 1023 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:45,839 Speaker 1: food pot, or they got you know, on one acre 1024 00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:47,640 Speaker 1: idio food pot on the back of the forty acres, 1025 00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:49,560 Speaker 1: but they're tired to see an evosion their food plot. 1026 00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:53,880 Speaker 1: What I wrote to Daniel was, I understand that's very realistic, 1027 00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:55,840 Speaker 1: and I've been there myself trace and I started with 1028 00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,960 Speaker 1: thirteen acres. I have been there. Um, what you can do. 1029 00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:01,080 Speaker 1: You're still going to use her beside, even with the 1030 00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,399 Speaker 1: backpack sprayer or you know however you're getting it done 1031 00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:05,920 Speaker 1: for with or sprayer or whatever, and you're gonna terminate 1032 00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:08,160 Speaker 1: that crop. And if there's a lot of duff on 1033 00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:10,640 Speaker 1: the ground like an o cow pass your big weaedy 1034 00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:14,160 Speaker 1: mess or whatever, when you terminate it, the standing vegetation 1035 00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:16,680 Speaker 1: will shrink up. That's that's a non issue. Son will 1036 00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,000 Speaker 1: go right through if you've got years and years of 1037 00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,960 Speaker 1: duff on the ground. That's good spreadilizer, but be you 1038 00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:23,880 Speaker 1: either have to dis that the first time to get 1039 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,200 Speaker 1: rid of it, or use prescribe fire. Very careful when 1040 00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:29,399 Speaker 1: I say use firefolks, that doesn't mean drop a match 1041 00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:31,759 Speaker 1: and letlon hatch. It means you've got a plan um 1042 00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:35,600 Speaker 1: and you're gonna remove that duff with fire. Fire will 1043 00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:38,480 Speaker 1: allow nitrogen to volatilize, but all the rest of the 1044 00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,240 Speaker 1: mentals just go right in the dirt. You're not losing anything. 1045 00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,879 Speaker 1: So uh, you can remove that duff. And the reason 1046 00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:46,359 Speaker 1: you have to remove duff is you need your seed 1047 00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:49,319 Speaker 1: to make good contact with the soil. If the seed 1048 00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,240 Speaker 1: is caught on top of duff and it gets warm 1049 00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:55,480 Speaker 1: and wet and germinates, it's unlikely it will get a 1050 00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:57,880 Speaker 1: root in the soil through the duff in time for 1051 00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:01,439 Speaker 1: it to start getting in ergy in and it dies, 1052 00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,640 Speaker 1: it starts to death. So we've got to have seed 1053 00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:07,480 Speaker 1: to soil contact to get the system started. And in 1054 00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,800 Speaker 1: that case, I'm certainly planning around up pretty soybeans so 1055 00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,080 Speaker 1: I can keep the weeds at bay. And then it 1056 00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:17,160 Speaker 1: was fall time. It's really easy for me to broadcast 1057 00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:20,279 Speaker 1: my fall blend of you know, cereal grains bras because 1058 00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:22,280 Speaker 1: I like the brity. I liked at least eight species 1059 00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,279 Speaker 1: in the blend, not less than eight. There's a lot 1060 00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,480 Speaker 1: of reasons for that. Uh. And not like eight different 1061 00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,200 Speaker 1: brieties of wheat. I'm talking eight different types of plants, 1062 00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:35,480 Speaker 1: eight different types of of of general. Uh. And I 1063 00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:38,440 Speaker 1: broadcasting the soybeans because now they're weed for either around 1064 00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:40,360 Speaker 1: up brading. And I've got a clean seed bed and 1065 00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:43,600 Speaker 1: the secret that makes this work and it can't be violated. 1066 00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:45,799 Speaker 1: This is the one short set people always want to take. 1067 00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:49,279 Speaker 1: Do the work, schedules and stuff. I get this. You 1068 00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:55,239 Speaker 1: have to uh broadcasts the seed right before or during 1069 00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:58,960 Speaker 1: a rain. If you don't, a lot of seed will 1070 00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:02,200 Speaker 1: die of either desiccation or you will be shocked at 1071 00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,080 Speaker 1: how many rodents and I mean, you know, not just squirrels, 1072 00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:08,920 Speaker 1: All the rodents and birds eat seed. And what percentage 1073 00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,480 Speaker 1: of the seeds A will remove in a five day 1074 00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:15,160 Speaker 1: waiting period for it rains and they'll see its Germany astonishing. 1075 00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:18,440 Speaker 1: I harvested a turkey two days ago, not bragging it 1076 00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:20,839 Speaker 1: all right off the roots called him off. The rus 1077 00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,520 Speaker 1: come in boom dead ring up the house cleaned him 1078 00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:25,800 Speaker 1: and his crop had a you know, a half of 1079 00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,520 Speaker 1: a handful of soybean seeds. Where that rascal been digging 1080 00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:32,040 Speaker 1: in my food plot getting soybean seeds out. Pritters eat seed, 1081 00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:35,480 Speaker 1: they love seeds. And you spread, you know whatever, fifty 1082 00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,400 Speaker 1: pounds break or on top the ground, and you think, well, 1083 00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,760 Speaker 1: no one's gonna know. I tell you, They tell their buddies. 1084 00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:43,000 Speaker 1: The squirrels start calling all their buddies, and no people 1085 00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:45,240 Speaker 1: running out there till a cheaps full of soybean seeds. 1086 00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:50,200 Speaker 1: So do not plant unless it's gonna rain the next 1087 00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:52,799 Speaker 1: day or sometime real soon, or it's raining right then 1088 00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:55,120 Speaker 1: as much of the plant before a rain and after 1089 00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:58,480 Speaker 1: a rain for and also the raindrops get it to 1090 00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:01,040 Speaker 1: soil with a lot of force, a splash, a little 1091 00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:03,279 Speaker 1: dirt up on the seed. It helps to germinate even more. 1092 00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:06,080 Speaker 1: And do you need to do anything even if even 1093 00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:08,840 Speaker 1: if we're talking about the spring planting right so before 1094 00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:12,120 Speaker 1: in the fall planting, you've got the standing crop from 1095 00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:15,239 Speaker 1: the summer that you can then use um. But what 1096 00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:17,920 Speaker 1: about the first planting, So you mentioned we're gonna have 1097 00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:20,480 Speaker 1: to use herbicide to get that stuff killed off. But 1098 00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:23,440 Speaker 1: I'll just use my example um to make it simple. 1099 00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:25,839 Speaker 1: So my situation right, there's some weed growth, but there's 1100 00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:28,800 Speaker 1: definitely open soil still. So I'll go in there and 1101 00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:32,200 Speaker 1: I'll terminate the weeds um at some point here soon 1102 00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:33,960 Speaker 1: kill off the weed growth. But then I want to 1103 00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:37,279 Speaker 1: get my summer, my warm season crop growing now. But 1104 00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:40,239 Speaker 1: I want to do it without my usual disking and 1105 00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:44,120 Speaker 1: then call to packing all that in So how would 1106 00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:47,120 Speaker 1: I go? I'll just go about broadcasting with with that rain? 1107 00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,120 Speaker 1: Do I need to roll over it? Do I need 1108 00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:51,279 Speaker 1: to do anything else to get that first one? Going 1109 00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,719 Speaker 1: rolling hills to call to packer, hilps, get seed to 1110 00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:58,480 Speaker 1: soil contact matches it down. If you have that available, 1111 00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:01,920 Speaker 1: that's great. If you don't, I have. I have buddies 1112 00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,640 Speaker 1: that you know do this all time. They don't, And 1113 00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,240 Speaker 1: typically what they do is they depend on the quality 1114 00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:09,640 Speaker 1: of soil where they are. They plant one point five 1115 00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:11,400 Speaker 1: the two times the mouse seeds. So if what if 1116 00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:15,600 Speaker 1: your planting equals fifty pounds breaker, plant seventy five two 1117 00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:18,680 Speaker 1: hundred pounds breakers and seed is cheaper than you know 1118 00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,680 Speaker 1: other other ways of getting this done. So so you've 1119 00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,440 Speaker 1: got to increase at planting rate when you're broadcasting to 1120 00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:27,319 Speaker 1: get enough seed germinating, and it won't be a it's 1121 00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:29,399 Speaker 1: not gonna look like an eyeba field where guy uses 1122 00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:31,719 Speaker 1: a twenty thousand planner a hundred thousands or planner to 1123 00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:36,920 Speaker 1: make it happen. You just accept that and go one. Okay. 1124 00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:40,440 Speaker 1: And so in the summer you're you're typically planting it 1125 00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:44,239 Speaker 1: sounds like straight soybeans for that warm season. But but 1126 00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,080 Speaker 1: is that not true? Do you sometimes do a summer blend? Yeah? 1127 00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:49,400 Speaker 1: I do. Uh, if I'm starting off and I know 1128 00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:51,600 Speaker 1: weeds are gonna be an issue, I'm planting straight round 1129 00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,400 Speaker 1: a pretty soy beans, I'm planting negle seed soy beans boom. 1130 00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:56,320 Speaker 1: And I still do that on some of niplots. Is 1131 00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:58,399 Speaker 1: like said, the smaller plots where I know I'm gonna 1132 00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:00,759 Speaker 1: have weeds because they're deary to cannot be off and 1133 00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:02,399 Speaker 1: I don't get in the multi layer built up because 1134 00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:05,680 Speaker 1: all the browse pressure in there. I'm planting a round 1135 00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:08,319 Speaker 1: up ready soybeans so I can control weeds and keep 1136 00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:11,279 Speaker 1: that seed based down because if I don't disk, I'll 1137 00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:14,160 Speaker 1: get on top to weeds. Those weeds. Weed seeds, if 1138 00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:17,080 Speaker 1: you think about are very small. Pig Weed is you know, 1139 00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:19,760 Speaker 1: I don't know millions of millions of seeds per pound, 1140 00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:22,880 Speaker 1: where soybeans are like been on the branden you get 1141 00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:24,759 Speaker 1: three thousands of seeds per pound. I mean there's a 1142 00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:28,239 Speaker 1: massive difference. Ragweed is very small. Every weed seed there's 1143 00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:30,279 Speaker 1: a problem in food blocks that I'm aware of, has 1144 00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:33,160 Speaker 1: a very small seed. So if it's very very deep 1145 00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:35,319 Speaker 1: in the soil and you don't disk, it's too deep 1146 00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:37,359 Speaker 1: for it to germinate, they're still there. They're just they're 1147 00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:38,960 Speaker 1: just they're not gonna be able to grow. They're not 1148 00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:40,600 Speaker 1: gonna get enough sun to pull them out of soil. 1149 00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:42,919 Speaker 1: So that's another part of just getting on top of weeds. 1150 00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:45,160 Speaker 1: In a couple of years, you're not disking, you're not 1151 00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:48,600 Speaker 1: putting any new weed seeds on top. So I'm gonna 1152 00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:51,520 Speaker 1: do that in the summer. I'm not getting established by terminating, 1153 00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:53,759 Speaker 1: making sure I bear soil, whether I have to disc 1154 00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:55,680 Speaker 1: or it's just like you said, You've got weeds, but 1155 00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:57,960 Speaker 1: not a bunch of mult built up. And then in 1156 00:56:58,000 --> 00:56:59,800 Speaker 1: the fall, I'm gonna have the soybeans standing there and 1157 00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:01,920 Speaker 1: they're weed for you, because I could use black pisade 1158 00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:03,839 Speaker 1: on top of them, and if I have to, by 1159 00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:06,880 Speaker 1: the way, folks, I always rather use a herbicide at 1160 00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:09,719 Speaker 1: least common her besides like black State, then I would do. 1161 00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,399 Speaker 1: It does way less damage to the soil, way less, 1162 00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:14,759 Speaker 1: way less damage to the soil. And then in the fall, 1163 00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:18,360 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna broadcast my fall cool season blend right 1164 00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:20,800 Speaker 1: on top of the beans. And if I'm using this system, 1165 00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:22,840 Speaker 1: I want a little bit earlier mature and beans. So 1166 00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:25,240 Speaker 1: if you're north you might use like Ego Seas Northern 1167 00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:27,720 Speaker 1: Manager blend. You know, you don't want to plant a 1168 00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:30,560 Speaker 1: being to taste forever to mature and it's green until 1169 00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:33,720 Speaker 1: the first frost, because then you don't have enough daylight 1170 00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:36,600 Speaker 1: reaching the soil or your for your crop to germinate, 1171 00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:39,480 Speaker 1: your fall crop to germinate unless you're disking into it now. 1172 00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:43,080 Speaker 1: I plant eagles really late maturing being because I love having, 1173 00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:45,880 Speaker 1: you know, beans that are green and productive until the 1174 00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,480 Speaker 1: hard killing frost to hunt over because dear, you know, 1175 00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:51,400 Speaker 1: dear love soybeans more than anything, so I love that. 1176 00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,400 Speaker 1: But if I've got a really good stand with closed canopy, 1177 00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:56,840 Speaker 1: I drilled right through there I drew my fall Blend 1178 00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:58,600 Speaker 1: right through there because I want something drawing as many 1179 00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:01,920 Speaker 1: days out of a year, and with my drill, I 1180 00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:04,360 Speaker 1: only damage about fift beams. So I end up with 1181 00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:06,480 Speaker 1: the perfect foot plot. I've got the fall greens and 1182 00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:09,240 Speaker 1: dear love on one days, I've got the pods or 1183 00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:11,800 Speaker 1: high energy that love on code days, I've got the 1184 00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:13,880 Speaker 1: perfect foot pot. There's no food plot better in my 1185 00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:17,000 Speaker 1: mind then one that's about half pods and half greens. 1186 00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:19,280 Speaker 1: I'm not talking side by side, I'm talking all together. 1187 00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:22,360 Speaker 1: I love that. That's my favorite plot, most productive to 1188 00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:26,320 Speaker 1: hunt by far. And you mentioned, sorry, you mentioned a 1189 00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:28,880 Speaker 1: little bit earlier ago, the fact that you really like 1190 00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:32,440 Speaker 1: diversity in those in those plots, and you mentioned that 1191 00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:35,040 Speaker 1: you it's at least in the fall blends you're trying 1192 00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:38,640 Speaker 1: to make sure eight different, completely different species. Um. I 1193 00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:40,160 Speaker 1: guess now I might be a good time to explain 1194 00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:44,640 Speaker 1: why that is. Yeah, so different plants need different minerals. 1195 00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:47,440 Speaker 1: They all need conder same but all in favorite one 1196 00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:52,000 Speaker 1: like for example, bucket really likes phosphorus. Phosphorus is huge nanodevelopment. 1197 00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,960 Speaker 1: Just you know, sunflowers taking a lot of different trades 1198 00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:57,120 Speaker 1: mentals out of ground, and they have a massive root 1199 00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:00,240 Speaker 1: base that becomes organic matter because I'm never disking, So 1200 00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:03,560 Speaker 1: when those roots decomposed, they become worm food. And the 1201 00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:06,080 Speaker 1: next route, the next plant can just follow those roots, 1202 00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:09,840 Speaker 1: and if it's a successful route, it obviously found moisture nutrients. 1203 00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:11,600 Speaker 1: So I want to go down that same path again. 1204 00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:15,280 Speaker 1: It's okay to have a blend in the summer if 1205 00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:17,200 Speaker 1: you're not having a big wheat issue like some of 1206 00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:19,480 Speaker 1: my fields are now. So I've got what I call 1207 00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:23,560 Speaker 1: the summer buffalo blend, which is primarily soy beans, but 1208 00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:26,240 Speaker 1: I've got some sunflowers and buckwheat and other stuff mixed 1209 00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:28,600 Speaker 1: in with them to give me that diversity. Different plants 1210 00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,280 Speaker 1: will have different size roots. Some have a single big 1211 00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:35,439 Speaker 1: bulb like a turn up or something. Serry has a massive, big, 1212 00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:38,560 Speaker 1: real fine root just builds a big, massive bowl mass 1213 00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:42,840 Speaker 1: in the ground. Wheats kind of in between um turnips. 1214 00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:44,920 Speaker 1: You know, if you think about turnips in that bulb 1215 00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:47,040 Speaker 1: and the and the deer don't eat the bowlb. That's 1216 00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:50,280 Speaker 1: just a giant, slow released nutrient package for the next crop. 1217 00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:51,920 Speaker 1: I took a picture of your day. I had a 1218 00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:54,840 Speaker 1: new soy being seedlaid about an inch tall right next 1219 00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:57,800 Speaker 1: to a turnip bolb. That plant will skyrocket because there's 1220 00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:00,600 Speaker 1: that turnip bulb decomposes that story beings. They're going to 1221 01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:01,720 Speaker 1: give it to me, give it to and give it 1222 01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:03,280 Speaker 1: to me. I mean, it's just you know, it's a 1223 01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:07,520 Speaker 1: perfect solwaies fertilizer. Again, and and so, different plants grow 1224 01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:11,600 Speaker 1: roots to different depths. Minerals kind of stratify sometimes some 1225 01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:14,320 Speaker 1: are available at different depths, and other soft pretensive settle 1226 01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:17,440 Speaker 1: about eighteen to twenty two deep. Uh So, and again 1227 01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:20,560 Speaker 1: I learned this from natural habitat on my land, where 1228 01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:24,320 Speaker 1: I cut seaters, planted nothing, and have tremendous native vegetation. 1229 01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:27,120 Speaker 1: There's always diversity. The only place I can think of 1230 01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:29,720 Speaker 1: in nature, I'm not talking man alter, just the true 1231 01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:33,440 Speaker 1: natural ecosystem that's kind of a monoculture plants speaking, not 1232 01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:36,240 Speaker 1: quitter speaking, is a salt sea marsh where it's a 1233 01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:40,120 Speaker 1: really harsh environment. Everywhere else I'm talking natural here, not 1234 01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:43,920 Speaker 1: a pine plantation or something, has a lot of diversity, 1235 01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:46,960 Speaker 1: because that's the way our system works best. In these 1236 01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:52,360 Speaker 1: summer blends you're looking for. Uh you mentioned different diversity, 1237 01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:55,000 Speaker 1: and species will give you the different depths and roots structure, 1238 01:00:55,040 --> 01:00:57,720 Speaker 1: which is going to help you build up that soil. 1239 01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,320 Speaker 1: It's gonna help you deliver the nutrients to the next crop. 1240 01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:04,000 Speaker 1: But then also you mentioned biomass, so that's that's getting 1241 01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:07,640 Speaker 1: different amounts and in structure and stuff above ground so 1242 01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:10,280 Speaker 1: that you get that thatch when you knock that down 1243 01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:14,000 Speaker 1: and you plant your fall blend, that's what helps you 1244 01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:17,320 Speaker 1: get that that's covering right. Well, let's talk about that 1245 01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:19,760 Speaker 1: thatch or multiple bit. So if you plant a pure 1246 01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:23,040 Speaker 1: Egyptian wheat or soldiums today and grass and you can 1247 01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:26,919 Speaker 1: get ten twenty tons per acre literally, Now deer don't 1248 01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:28,560 Speaker 1: eat that, so don't get off side of folks. It's 1249 01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:30,440 Speaker 1: not like the magic being deer food pot. We all 1250 01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:32,280 Speaker 1: look for the magic being I found it yet. But 1251 01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:35,440 Speaker 1: you can build a lot of biomass doing that if 1252 01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:38,120 Speaker 1: you're playing a high seed depty bit. Let's remember some 1253 01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:42,160 Speaker 1: basic seventh grade signs, and there's a nasty word. I 1254 01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:46,360 Speaker 1: don't want scarline off the photo synthesis. Plant leaves are 1255 01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:49,760 Speaker 1: the world's best solar collectors. No man has ever build 1256 01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:52,720 Speaker 1: a solar panel is efficient as they leave, nor will 1257 01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:55,960 Speaker 1: they ever so in a food pot blend. I don't 1258 01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,400 Speaker 1: have you know, a crop a monoculture ten feet call 1259 01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:01,880 Speaker 1: like Egyptian wheat. I've got some plovers down low. I've 1260 01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,400 Speaker 1: got some buckwheat mid. I might have a you know, 1261 01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:08,200 Speaker 1: a big soil being up high because no monoculture catches 1262 01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:10,640 Speaker 1: the sun. And I don't want to waste any because 1263 01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:13,000 Speaker 1: sun is the source of all energy for all life 1264 01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:16,880 Speaker 1: period and it's doing that through photosynthesis. Photosynthesis, you don't 1265 01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:18,680 Speaker 1: have to remember see six A twelve or six and 1266 01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:21,720 Speaker 1: all that stuff. Just thinking about this, it's taking carbon 1267 01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:26,160 Speaker 1: dioxide a waste product, and water and making clean oxygen 1268 01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:31,200 Speaker 1: O two and carbon. Remember, carbon is the most important 1269 01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:33,960 Speaker 1: element to plant life, to any life. Human bodies are 1270 01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:38,360 Speaker 1: primarily carbon, and that carbon is converted through photosynthesis and 1271 01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:42,400 Speaker 1: really cool things in plant leaves and about. Depending on 1272 01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:44,200 Speaker 1: the species of plants, so don't quote me on this, 1273 01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:48,160 Speaker 1: it varies. But on the unaveraged fichu cent is called 1274 01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:52,560 Speaker 1: leaked out or plant exu dates coming out of plant roots. 1275 01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:55,320 Speaker 1: It's putting in the soil. That's how we turned soil black. 1276 01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:57,760 Speaker 1: This is so cool, and listen to this. This is 1277 01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:00,480 Speaker 1: this is kind of deep science. I'll be real light 1278 01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:03,400 Speaker 1: on this, but the microbes and the soil that I've 1279 01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:06,000 Speaker 1: been talking about, the soil life that is so beneficial. 1280 01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:10,480 Speaker 1: They can't photosynthesize, so the plant. It's always an economic exchange. 1281 01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:12,880 Speaker 1: I don't care where you go, folks, socialism won't work. 1282 01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:16,040 Speaker 1: I'm not being political. There's always an economic exchange. Plants 1283 01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:20,040 Speaker 1: are trade in these microbes carbon, and the microbes are 1284 01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:22,919 Speaker 1: given the plants whatever nutrients they need that they rolled 1285 01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:25,600 Speaker 1: from a rock or you know, soil or whatever. There's 1286 01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:29,160 Speaker 1: an exchange going on seven blow to soil. The science 1287 01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:30,960 Speaker 1: gets really deep, and I don't want to going deeper that, 1288 01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:34,840 Speaker 1: but it is the most interesting science in my career 1289 01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:38,720 Speaker 1: I've ever studied by far by far and it's fascinating 1290 01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:42,800 Speaker 1: how to soil works together with these microbes. Remember, the 1291 01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:46,360 Speaker 1: Great Pairie was never fertilized except for buffalo pooping on it. 1292 01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:49,640 Speaker 1: Never fertilized, and the buffalo got that from what they're eating. 1293 01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:52,800 Speaker 1: There was no synthetic inputs. And you can do it 1294 01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:55,080 Speaker 1: in a two acre food plot. You don't have to 1295 01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:57,720 Speaker 1: have the millions of acres a great prairie. And it 1296 01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:00,720 Speaker 1: doesn't happen overnight because your land has been degraded by 1297 01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:02,760 Speaker 1: pass practices. We didn't know any better. It's not say 1298 01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:06,200 Speaker 1: anything bad. I'm just before I've added tons of synthetic fertilizer. 1299 01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:08,480 Speaker 1: I didn't know any better. But you don't have to. 1300 01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:10,480 Speaker 1: I'm just saying there's an option you don't have to, 1301 01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:15,200 Speaker 1: and so feeding these microbes by the photosynthesis. So one 1302 01:04:15,240 --> 01:04:17,919 Speaker 1: reason I like a blend. I've got a low growing 1303 01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,959 Speaker 1: plant or maybe two or three, a medium growing plant 1304 01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:23,360 Speaker 1: maybe two or three, and a higher growing plant. They 1305 01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:27,400 Speaker 1: all have different plant leaf sizes and plant leave structures, 1306 01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:30,000 Speaker 1: and the leaves may come off, you know, kind of 1307 01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:33,520 Speaker 1: a wrecked or sticking up or flat or sideways. Those 1308 01:04:33,560 --> 01:04:35,920 Speaker 1: are all made so they can catch every bit of sun. 1309 01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:39,760 Speaker 1: I want shade down to soil level, keeps it cooler. 1310 01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:42,960 Speaker 1: I'm not losing any moisture to evaporation. That one rain 1311 01:04:43,040 --> 01:04:46,280 Speaker 1: can last me a month, you know, past don't take much. Guys. 1312 01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:49,320 Speaker 1: If you could get twenty inches of rain a growing season, 1313 01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:52,000 Speaker 1: but you just got at a quarter inch of a week, 1314 01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:53,760 Speaker 1: every week you got a quarter inch or what they 1315 01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:55,720 Speaker 1: depend on where you live and how long growing season is, 1316 01:04:56,320 --> 01:04:59,880 Speaker 1: it'd be awesome. No one would complain, right, never, No farmer, 1317 01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:03,200 Speaker 1: deer gate, but that never happens. So farmers are a 1318 01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:07,200 Speaker 1: gate because they're not storing soil, water, soil, moisture, and 1319 01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:10,280 Speaker 1: food plotters go. I spend all this money on seed 1320 01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:12,960 Speaker 1: and fertilizer. Now it's a drought, and that dog on 1321 01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:15,120 Speaker 1: food plots a slick as a pool table out there. 1322 01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:17,800 Speaker 1: You don't have to live that way. There are better ways. 1323 01:05:18,080 --> 01:05:20,680 Speaker 1: So we experienced a wicked drought here last summer at 1324 01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:23,320 Speaker 1: the provement grounds my place, a wicked drought and deer 1325 01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:26,520 Speaker 1: pretty much eight most things to the ground, except in 1326 01:05:26,680 --> 01:05:29,640 Speaker 1: my electric fences where it's protecting some bean pods to 1327 01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:31,680 Speaker 1: you know, late season hunt to make sure they didn't 1328 01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:35,400 Speaker 1: need a too ground in a wicked, wicked drought. I 1329 01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:39,360 Speaker 1: had beans over four ft tall producing a gada pods. 1330 01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:42,320 Speaker 1: I'm just an accutive estimate, probably forty fifty bushels breaker 1331 01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:45,000 Speaker 1: a great crop of bean pods. And when I opened 1332 01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:48,480 Speaker 1: up those fences this last winter, talked about a deer magnet. 1333 01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:53,560 Speaker 1: So you can store moisture and you can get there's nutrients. 1334 01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:55,480 Speaker 1: There's plenty of nutrients everywhere. I want to I want 1335 01:05:55,480 --> 01:05:57,760 Speaker 1: to share something here. You're not being too deep and 1336 01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:00,560 Speaker 1: soil recently there was a conference. There's a guy who 1337 01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:02,959 Speaker 1: owns the soil ABB. He mainly does to Western States, 1338 01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:04,320 Speaker 1: so a lot of us A probably aren't going to 1339 01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:06,080 Speaker 1: use this lab. It's a good lab, real high quality 1340 01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:08,520 Speaker 1: soil ABB and uh. And he was kind of fighting 1341 01:06:08,560 --> 01:06:11,080 Speaker 1: this reginity back then. We're talking about here because I mean, 1342 01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:14,080 Speaker 1: he's he's a soil scientist. He's all about MP and 1343 01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:16,320 Speaker 1: K And I'm not knocking the guy Tollways, a brilliant 1344 01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:19,080 Speaker 1: guy and a really smart firmer. And this lady, this 1345 01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:22,040 Speaker 1: brilliant scientists from Australia has been doing some great work 1346 01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:24,320 Speaker 1: in Australia about improving soil health. I mean they you know, 1347 01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:26,520 Speaker 1: they don't have all rules. America has Nakan spraining her 1348 01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:29,200 Speaker 1: beside test deicide thun Decide or whatever down there. Her 1349 01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:31,880 Speaker 1: soul has really gotten degraded, yields her way way down. 1350 01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:36,320 Speaker 1: It's a national concern down there. And she's talking about, well, sir, 1351 01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:39,440 Speaker 1: how much fospterus is in your soil? Orders it on 1352 01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:43,920 Speaker 1: the soil test it says available phosphorus, not fosterus phosphorus. 1353 01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:46,880 Speaker 1: That's that's now any form that plants can use the 1354 01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:50,200 Speaker 1: phospterus report of a fertilizer bag is toxic to planets. 1355 01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:52,400 Speaker 1: It has to go through a change before plants can 1356 01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:55,520 Speaker 1: take it up. Literally, So he's he's told her, I 1357 01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:58,080 Speaker 1: got you know what he said, eighty pounds break or whatever? Said, No, no, no, 1358 01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:01,400 Speaker 1: I want to know the total osperus in your soils. 1359 01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:03,680 Speaker 1: He whipped out his nap gun. You dust stuff, and 1360 01:07:03,680 --> 01:07:05,280 Speaker 1: you can tell he's got now that can't be biting me, 1361 01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:10,080 Speaker 1: does it again? Well, about ten thousand pounds breakers now, 1362 01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:13,320 Speaker 1: ten thousand pounds breaker if that was available plants, it's 1363 01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:15,160 Speaker 1: not now. But if it wasn't available, if you had 1364 01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:18,160 Speaker 1: to write microbes doing this and stuff going on, how 1365 01:07:18,240 --> 01:07:21,080 Speaker 1: many years could you go without Ferdi lives these ciphers 1366 01:07:21,160 --> 01:07:23,960 Speaker 1: and ciphers and well, I don't know if sure, but 1367 01:07:24,080 --> 01:07:28,520 Speaker 1: my grandkids would certainly never heard lives, never, not one time. 1368 01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:31,600 Speaker 1: These nutrients are into soil, folks, but we've killed the 1369 01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:36,120 Speaker 1: soil alive that makes it available to the crops. So 1370 01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:39,720 Speaker 1: is this right for everyone? No? Man, you got to 1371 01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:42,240 Speaker 1: corderate the food plot, and you're taking your lawnmower and 1372 01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:44,880 Speaker 1: the garden tiller out there and get them something green 1373 01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:47,160 Speaker 1: to go shoot a deer over man, I've done that. 1374 01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:50,520 Speaker 1: More power to you. That is awesome, awesome. I want 1375 01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:53,560 Speaker 1: everyone involved with the soil because I think just an 1376 01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:57,560 Speaker 1: understanding of soil and gardening or flower pots is really 1377 01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:00,760 Speaker 1: healthy for mankind because you're just at it more respectful 1378 01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:03,480 Speaker 1: of what it takes. But if you have the time 1379 01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:05,840 Speaker 1: or the inflammation, or you're in the co op and 1380 01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:10,240 Speaker 1: you get it, you know, have an opportunity improving soul health. 1381 01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:15,040 Speaker 1: Not the first year, but over time will significantly reduce 1382 01:08:15,080 --> 01:08:17,040 Speaker 1: your tost food plots, which what I've done here proven 1383 01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:20,000 Speaker 1: now it's that cost savings. I've taken not much but 1384 01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:23,000 Speaker 1: a few acres a year, added more food pots. I 1385 01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:24,840 Speaker 1: kind of got a food pop budget. My wife Trace 1386 01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:27,559 Speaker 1: and I, you know, tind of talk about act over time. 1387 01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:30,479 Speaker 1: As I have less inputs, I can make another acre 1388 01:08:30,520 --> 01:08:33,280 Speaker 1: too the food pots and we all have more food pops, right, 1389 01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:38,360 Speaker 1: more places to hunt, hanging stand So over time does 1390 01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:43,519 Speaker 1: this work. Absolutely. There's some really awesome examples in in 1391 01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:46,479 Speaker 1: the egg side of taken the towallan desert down to 1392 01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:49,280 Speaker 1: Mexico to if you've ever hunted coupas deer down to anything. 1393 01:08:49,280 --> 01:08:51,280 Speaker 1: I mean, it's I don't know. I'm gonna guess here, 1394 01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:54,080 Speaker 1: sad you sent bear dirt showing a few cactuses and 1395 01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:58,400 Speaker 1: safe brush plants and whatnot to lush seeds of grass 1396 01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:00,960 Speaker 1: for cattle, and their cattle are gaining weight like crazy 1397 01:09:01,280 --> 01:09:03,920 Speaker 1: by doing it differently than grandfather did. And it's kind 1398 01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:06,479 Speaker 1: of the same way about us and my I grew 1399 01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:08,280 Speaker 1: up on a farm, folks. I had pulled a disc 1400 01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:10,599 Speaker 1: of blue million miles, thinking I was doing good work. 1401 01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:12,720 Speaker 1: But it just takes an open mind and learning a 1402 01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:17,360 Speaker 1: little bit more and replicating nature. So some people say, well, 1403 01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:20,400 Speaker 1: that's a different traditional act, and I say no. I 1404 01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:23,120 Speaker 1: say the Buffalo hence I nade, not the Buffalo system. 1405 01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:26,040 Speaker 1: And the Great Prairie, the richest soil is known on 1406 01:09:26,160 --> 01:09:30,080 Speaker 1: the planet, folks. Before man got there and really messed 1407 01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:33,280 Speaker 1: up a few acres of native soil. We have left 1408 01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:37,439 Speaker 1: in the prairie. Scientists go during test and it is shocking, shocking. 1409 01:09:37,479 --> 01:09:41,040 Speaker 1: Now rich it is. I call that traditional act. And 1410 01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:46,040 Speaker 1: I call maximum maximum till each and maximum synthetic input 1411 01:09:46,520 --> 01:09:48,920 Speaker 1: conventional act, because that's the convention of what we're doing 1412 01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:53,200 Speaker 1: these days. But even in Illinois, I work in Illinois, 1413 01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:54,960 Speaker 1: line I was dritten then. And I've just noticed the 1414 01:09:54,960 --> 01:09:57,839 Speaker 1: past two or three winners used to like called Illinois 1415 01:09:57,920 --> 01:10:00,120 Speaker 1: the lands of chisel plow. Everything was chisel power. Ever 1416 01:10:00,200 --> 01:10:02,160 Speaker 1: win it. I've worked for Greg Ritz there and a 1417 01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:04,320 Speaker 1: bunch of other people, you know, and there's like, now 1418 01:10:04,360 --> 01:10:05,920 Speaker 1: I grow a bit bigger, dear, And I said, Greg, 1419 01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:08,760 Speaker 1: you've got a timberland. Greg, this is on great show, 1420 01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:10,600 Speaker 1: so I'm not speaking minds back. Greg put this on 1421 01:10:10,680 --> 01:10:15,439 Speaker 1: his on television show. Your timberland is mature, cannot be forest. 1422 01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:18,479 Speaker 1: There's nothing, not much going underneath it, and all the 1423 01:10:18,680 --> 01:10:22,879 Speaker 1: agg land surrounding you that's so lush and so productive. 1424 01:10:22,880 --> 01:10:25,400 Speaker 1: In the summer it is as bald as my head. 1425 01:10:25,560 --> 01:10:28,240 Speaker 1: Five months out of the year, there's no cover or 1426 01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:30,680 Speaker 1: food for deer or turkeys. If you want to grow 1427 01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:33,320 Speaker 1: bigger deer. We got velts some food plots that have 1428 01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:35,800 Speaker 1: food twelve months out of year because deer, deer can 1429 01:10:35,880 --> 01:10:37,519 Speaker 1: store a lot of fat, and they do all through 1430 01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:39,960 Speaker 1: the Midwest and grow some awesome deer. He We all 1431 01:10:40,040 --> 01:10:41,880 Speaker 1: know the juries and a lot of my buddies are 1432 01:10:42,160 --> 01:10:45,960 Speaker 1: are growing awesome deer. U the conventional aglays think about now, 1433 01:10:46,439 --> 01:10:47,880 Speaker 1: and I'm really good friends in market Arry and I 1434 01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:49,920 Speaker 1: talked to minder back at all been friends for decades. 1435 01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:52,160 Speaker 1: But they've got some really good food plots too. Right 1436 01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:54,599 Speaker 1: when those when those agg fields are gone, and they 1437 01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:56,840 Speaker 1: leave a fair amount of bean standing whatnot. But when 1438 01:10:56,880 --> 01:10:59,240 Speaker 1: the neighbors agg fields are gone, they got some one 1439 01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:01,599 Speaker 1: food in the neighborhoo it of course they're growing great 1440 01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:04,240 Speaker 1: deer because they got food all winter along. Mark would 1441 01:11:04,280 --> 01:11:06,360 Speaker 1: not have it where his dear did not have food 1442 01:11:06,400 --> 01:11:09,320 Speaker 1: all winter along. And I'm busting all kinds of county 1443 01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:12,439 Speaker 1: records and doing great. But I've got high quality forage 1444 01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:15,840 Speaker 1: year round. And if I dis like in the fall, 1445 01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:18,040 Speaker 1: let's just think about this. I disk in the fall 1446 01:11:18,160 --> 01:11:19,840 Speaker 1: right for a hunting season and get my fall food 1447 01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:21,800 Speaker 1: plots ready. But I feel good. And everyone kind of 1448 01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:23,519 Speaker 1: does this on Labor Day. Labor Day, and let's load 1449 01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:26,880 Speaker 1: up tractor, gonna make food blots rightful deer season. And 1450 01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:29,280 Speaker 1: I turn on my ground from some kind of forage 1451 01:11:29,320 --> 01:11:32,120 Speaker 1: weeds or whatever to bar dirt. There's a difference with 1452 01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:34,240 Speaker 1: dirt and soil. Why do I just tell my dear, 1453 01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:37,880 Speaker 1: no food here, go somewhere else. And so I disc 1454 01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:41,160 Speaker 1: maybe I disc implant the same day. It's two or 1455 01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:43,240 Speaker 1: three weeks before there's enough food growing there to really 1456 01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:45,960 Speaker 1: attract the deer. He might little get a little green 1457 01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:48,160 Speaker 1: fuzz in the first week, but you're not providing any 1458 01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:50,519 Speaker 1: tonnings for a while. Why do I just tell my dear, 1459 01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:53,320 Speaker 1: he's deer season and you need to go feed somewhere else. 1460 01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:55,920 Speaker 1: You're not welcome here. I call that cleaning the table, 1461 01:11:56,520 --> 01:11:59,000 Speaker 1: and so here we never cleaned the table like so 1462 01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:01,559 Speaker 1: right now, I've got a clovers in my fall blend, 1463 01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:04,040 Speaker 1: and until my soybeans get big enough to run the 1464 01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:06,599 Speaker 1: crimper over them, my deer eating on clover right now. 1465 01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:09,280 Speaker 1: And this is another cool thing. How many y'all planted 1466 01:12:09,320 --> 01:12:12,760 Speaker 1: soybeans or something really lush like that? You plant an 1467 01:12:12,760 --> 01:12:14,559 Speaker 1: anchor and men, you go out there, maybe a week later, 1468 01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:16,320 Speaker 1: you got pretty good germanation. Oh man, it's gonna be 1469 01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:18,920 Speaker 1: an awesome ye year. You go out there, three weeks later, 1470 01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:22,439 Speaker 1: it's lip high because a dear aid everything. I don't 1471 01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:25,160 Speaker 1: have that big issue with that anymore, because now I've 1472 01:12:25,200 --> 01:12:27,519 Speaker 1: got a four foot tall fall crop after being a 1473 01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:31,679 Speaker 1: greenhouse over my young soybeans, and a deer eating the clover. 1474 01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:34,400 Speaker 1: Because deer don't like to stick their head all the 1475 01:12:34,439 --> 01:12:36,519 Speaker 1: way down in that foot toall clover where they can't 1476 01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:39,760 Speaker 1: see smell, or here the boga bear coming up behind them. 1477 01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:42,120 Speaker 1: And it's it's like a little mini greenhouse where my 1478 01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:44,160 Speaker 1: soybeans that lets them get a good root system going 1479 01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:47,200 Speaker 1: a good start, so deer vows isn't as much as 1480 01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:49,760 Speaker 1: an impact. I got a question about that a little 1481 01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:54,519 Speaker 1: bit great. You mentioned how you're now planting right into 1482 01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:58,720 Speaker 1: the standing um, into the standing summer crops. I'm talking 1483 01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:01,000 Speaker 1: to the fall. Now you've you've your own here soybeans 1484 01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:03,479 Speaker 1: or your soy bean blend with other things, and it 1485 01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:05,679 Speaker 1: sounds like a really important thing is if you're gonna 1486 01:13:05,720 --> 01:13:08,120 Speaker 1: have that blend be in addition to soybe's, you want 1487 01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:09,720 Speaker 1: to make sure it's the lagom so it fixes a 1488 01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:12,360 Speaker 1: lot of nitrogen into that soil, which essentially your natural 1489 01:13:12,439 --> 01:13:15,160 Speaker 1: fertilizer for your fall blend. But you mentioned that you're 1490 01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:18,560 Speaker 1: not fully terminating it until after you plant right to 1491 01:13:18,640 --> 01:13:21,320 Speaker 1: get that greenhouse effect. What if I'm what if I'm 1492 01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:24,120 Speaker 1: going to do the broadcasting thing though, Yeah, okay, in 1493 01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:28,479 Speaker 1: the fall, all I do is drill through my standing beans. 1494 01:13:28,760 --> 01:13:32,000 Speaker 1: I never terminated. Never, I'm gonna let the beans drill, 1495 01:13:32,479 --> 01:13:34,599 Speaker 1: go ahead and ripen and make full pots. I want 1496 01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:36,720 Speaker 1: them to ripen and make full of pots. And if 1497 01:13:36,720 --> 01:13:38,840 Speaker 1: I broadcast and I feel a broadcast here, let's say 1498 01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:40,960 Speaker 1: I got again on these smaller plase, so did derate 1499 01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:42,800 Speaker 1: to top off the beans, I got some weeds in 1500 01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:45,920 Speaker 1: or whatever. I might spray that plot and then either 1501 01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:50,320 Speaker 1: drill or broadcast my fall seed right into that plot. 1502 01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:52,559 Speaker 1: So I'm still even a lot of our beans are left, 1503 01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:54,920 Speaker 1: and it's warm up on plant here in mid to 1504 01:13:55,040 --> 01:13:57,040 Speaker 1: late August and on when I've got enough so a 1505 01:13:57,120 --> 01:14:00,360 Speaker 1: moisture I want to plant. Everyone should plant their fall crop. 1506 01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:02,840 Speaker 1: And there's at least forty five to sixty days before 1507 01:14:02,840 --> 01:14:04,920 Speaker 1: a really hard frost, so you've got some time to 1508 01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:07,360 Speaker 1: girls some tunny or some bile mess to feed deer 1509 01:14:07,960 --> 01:14:10,800 Speaker 1: and for your next year, but more importantly to feed deer. 1510 01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:14,320 Speaker 1: So I don't terminate anything in the falls unless I 1511 01:14:14,360 --> 01:14:16,280 Speaker 1: got a lot of weeds, and I might use a herbicide. 1512 01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:19,280 Speaker 1: I only primp in the spring, and you can get 1513 01:14:19,600 --> 01:14:22,720 Speaker 1: you can get enough sunlight down to to get that 1514 01:14:22,760 --> 01:14:25,360 Speaker 1: stuff to Germany, even through standing beans and stuff like 1515 01:14:25,439 --> 01:14:28,360 Speaker 1: that or is that just not matter, because again, no 1516 01:14:28,479 --> 01:14:31,720 Speaker 1: it does. If it's a really thick crop and I 1517 01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:34,080 Speaker 1: drilled through there, about half the beans are going to survive, 1518 01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:37,120 Speaker 1: the other half are laying down. I'm getting sunlight, gotcha. 1519 01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:41,439 Speaker 1: And if I broadcast, I'm not broadcasting into a really 1520 01:14:41,520 --> 01:14:45,120 Speaker 1: full stand because I know it would shade out and 1521 01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:47,880 Speaker 1: I wouldn't get a good fall crop started. I planted 1522 01:14:47,880 --> 01:14:50,320 Speaker 1: the eagle, I play an eagle. I'll just tell you 1523 01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:52,799 Speaker 1: exactly what I plant. I either plant eagles, whilfe managers, 1524 01:14:52,840 --> 01:14:57,280 Speaker 1: wind Order Group seven, uh, big fellows, and those rascals 1525 01:14:57,320 --> 01:15:01,559 Speaker 1: stay big green leaves until the first hard frost, which 1526 01:15:01,640 --> 01:15:04,720 Speaker 1: is awesome for Maxtionalum chileoni feeding deer. So that's not 1527 01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:07,240 Speaker 1: so good for getting the fall crop established. So I 1528 01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:09,400 Speaker 1: just drill. If the deer didn't need him real hard, 1529 01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:11,960 Speaker 1: I drill right through there, and I knock about half 1530 01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:14,240 Speaker 1: of them down. Someone will stand back up, some of 1531 01:15:14,240 --> 01:15:17,320 Speaker 1: them won't. And I have about a roughly a half 1532 01:15:17,360 --> 01:15:19,320 Speaker 1: a crop of beans, and I have a full crop 1533 01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:22,160 Speaker 1: of my fall blend coming on. Can you describe what 1534 01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:24,959 Speaker 1: that fall blend is in detail? Because from what I understand, 1535 01:15:25,240 --> 01:15:29,400 Speaker 1: you're not only trying to pick you know, attractive forage 1536 01:15:29,439 --> 01:15:31,519 Speaker 1: blends for feeding the deer during the fall and winter. 1537 01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:34,920 Speaker 1: But I also understand that you're trying to plant things 1538 01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:37,439 Speaker 1: that will be there the next spring, right to keep 1539 01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:41,920 Speaker 1: this cycle going. So can you describe what those all 1540 01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:43,840 Speaker 1: kind of describe in general? Not just I'm hiding. I 1541 01:15:43,880 --> 01:15:45,840 Speaker 1: don't have any magic secrets or anything. I don't tell 1542 01:15:45,840 --> 01:15:48,519 Speaker 1: any seed or anything like that. It's because I changed 1543 01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:50,880 Speaker 1: as I learned more. I change every year. So let's 1544 01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:53,439 Speaker 1: take this, I think a more accurate way. I'm probably 1545 01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:56,559 Speaker 1: gonna have one to three and probably two to three 1546 01:15:57,120 --> 01:16:01,040 Speaker 1: small grains youre rye oats and wheat, and I'll probably 1547 01:16:01,120 --> 01:16:03,519 Speaker 1: have a bit more ride than the others because it 1548 01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:06,559 Speaker 1: grows taller, makes more bio mass, and puts more roots 1549 01:16:06,600 --> 01:16:09,760 Speaker 1: in the soil. And check this out, folks. So I'm 1550 01:16:09,760 --> 01:16:14,120 Speaker 1: not I'm just telling you here, rye has the lieopathic qualities. 1551 01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:15,920 Speaker 1: Big word. Let me break it a little simple for you. 1552 01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:18,519 Speaker 1: You probably noticed on a walnut tree to grass don 1553 01:16:18,640 --> 01:16:20,519 Speaker 1: grow too well. If people don't like walnut trees and 1554 01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:23,400 Speaker 1: yard because grass and grown well, that's because walnuts put 1555 01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:26,800 Speaker 1: out a toxin that keeps other plants from growing so 1556 01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:29,120 Speaker 1: they can get all the moisture nutrients to their cells. 1557 01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:32,360 Speaker 1: When you terminate rye, a lot of species of serial 1558 01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:35,519 Speaker 1: rye and does the same thing, it won't hurt us 1559 01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:38,840 Speaker 1: the way being or corn buckweed or even a big 1560 01:16:38,920 --> 01:16:41,599 Speaker 1: two over seed. It's just not that strong. But as 1561 01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:45,840 Speaker 1: we talked earlier, pig weed, rag weed, a lot of 1562 01:16:45,880 --> 01:16:49,880 Speaker 1: these weeds have extremely small almost like pollen floating through 1563 01:16:49,920 --> 01:16:52,599 Speaker 1: the air side seeds. It will work on this. One 1564 01:16:52,680 --> 01:16:57,000 Speaker 1: of my big weed control features is when these plants 1565 01:16:57,080 --> 01:16:59,920 Speaker 1: brastes that's have a different set but also a lily 1566 01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:02,880 Speaker 1: path in qualities. So I'm gonna have some some sereal grains, 1567 01:17:02,920 --> 01:17:05,840 Speaker 1: including a cereal rye and some type of Braski in 1568 01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:09,160 Speaker 1: my blend to help control weeds. In addition to feeding deer. 1569 01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:12,400 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a clover too. I'm always gonna have annuals, 1570 01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:15,479 Speaker 1: not perennials. I've become a huge fan of annual clovers 1571 01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:17,880 Speaker 1: because I used to maintain a lot of premial clock 1572 01:17:18,280 --> 01:17:21,479 Speaker 1: perennial cover plots, and I've written a lot about this 1573 01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:24,400 Speaker 1: and showed it on video and whatnot. But in reality, 1574 01:17:24,400 --> 01:17:26,720 Speaker 1: I'll learned over time, guys, those are expensive, and they 1575 01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:29,000 Speaker 1: take a lot of herbside and fertilizer to keep going. 1576 01:17:29,040 --> 01:17:31,599 Speaker 1: It's tough to keep the weeds of a premial clover plot. 1577 01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:34,000 Speaker 1: And if we're all on us, then you may be 1578 01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:36,519 Speaker 1: a little better Northern Nichigan or something. But for most 1579 01:17:36,600 --> 01:17:39,680 Speaker 1: of us, you know, let's say from Awa south uh, 1580 01:17:39,840 --> 01:17:42,160 Speaker 1: we have some hot drive periods here and almost every 1581 01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:45,519 Speaker 1: summer and our clover you won't die, but it'd be dormant. 1582 01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:48,240 Speaker 1: It's not feeding anything, and I need I need food 1583 01:17:48,280 --> 01:17:49,880 Speaker 1: out there at three and sixty five days a year 1584 01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:52,320 Speaker 1: to go to Big Sandner's and the most turkeys I can. 1585 01:17:53,120 --> 01:17:55,560 Speaker 1: So I found that a really strong annual clover in 1586 01:17:55,680 --> 01:17:59,479 Speaker 1: my fall blend works perfectly. So a regular clover pot 1587 01:17:59,640 --> 01:18:02,160 Speaker 1: is really strong from when the tempertures start warming in 1588 01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:05,920 Speaker 1: the spring they got the moisture until maybe June, may 1589 01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:08,240 Speaker 1: depend on how the moisture and the heat goes that year. 1590 01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:11,680 Speaker 1: Does dormant, are not very productive through all summer and 1591 01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:13,960 Speaker 1: may or may not pick up in the fall late 1592 01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,360 Speaker 1: fall once the temperature school and we get some moisture. 1593 01:18:16,840 --> 01:18:19,080 Speaker 1: That's a bunch of months in there. I didn't feed anything. 1594 01:18:19,479 --> 01:18:21,320 Speaker 1: So you can have just a couple of acres of 1595 01:18:21,360 --> 01:18:24,080 Speaker 1: clover can outside your proper or less. And when it's 1596 01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:26,880 Speaker 1: really productive, man, it outgoes the deer. They can't eat 1597 01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:28,840 Speaker 1: it fast enough. I'm sure y'all have seen this. And 1598 01:18:28,960 --> 01:18:30,800 Speaker 1: when it's dormant, I don't care if you got five 1599 01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:33,479 Speaker 1: hundred acres of clover, it's not feeding anything. But when 1600 01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:36,439 Speaker 1: I went to the annual clover in my fall blends, 1601 01:18:36,560 --> 01:18:38,519 Speaker 1: the fall buffalo blends, I call them because they worked 1602 01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:41,240 Speaker 1: with the buffalo system. Man, it comes on when clover 1603 01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:44,240 Speaker 1: is gonna go great, late fall or late winter, early 1604 01:18:44,320 --> 01:18:47,439 Speaker 1: spring it's producing tons. Is about the time it's starting 1605 01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:50,280 Speaker 1: to rain. Is when my soybeans are coming on, which 1606 01:18:50,320 --> 01:18:53,880 Speaker 1: are much more drought hardy and heat tolerant. So I 1607 01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:57,160 Speaker 1: for me you personally here, I'm out of the premial 1608 01:18:57,240 --> 01:19:00,800 Speaker 1: clover plot. I'm gonna have an you clover to in 1609 01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:02,920 Speaker 1: a blend. I'm gonna have some cereal grains in a blend. 1610 01:19:03,320 --> 01:19:05,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a brassica in the blend and maybe too, 1611 01:19:06,080 --> 01:19:08,320 Speaker 1: maybe like a rasih and some type of turn up 1612 01:19:08,479 --> 01:19:10,400 Speaker 1: or a wave, but a rape it's just a non 1613 01:19:10,520 --> 01:19:12,920 Speaker 1: boat producing turn up. And I'm probably gonna have a 1614 01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:14,920 Speaker 1: broad leaf in there, which will probably die at the 1615 01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:17,160 Speaker 1: first frost, and maybe a buckwheat or something like that. 1616 01:19:17,800 --> 01:19:20,680 Speaker 1: So I've got all these different root structures. Plants are 1617 01:19:20,680 --> 01:19:24,080 Speaker 1: pulling way different minerals out of soil. So when they 1618 01:19:24,120 --> 01:19:26,679 Speaker 1: are termite either consumed by deer, because it's like feeding 1619 01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:30,760 Speaker 1: your deer, multi videment either consumed by deer or it's 1620 01:19:30,920 --> 01:19:34,519 Speaker 1: terminated on the plot, and and putting those nutrients right 1621 01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:37,120 Speaker 1: back at the surface for new new plants that to 1622 01:19:37,200 --> 01:19:39,840 Speaker 1: have an introng route. You have all the nutrients you 1623 01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:42,640 Speaker 1: want twenty inches deep, but your crop will start to 1624 01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:45,000 Speaker 1: death before it gets route to them. So I'm what 1625 01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:49,479 Speaker 1: I'm doing what's called mining or recycling nutrients. I'm taking 1626 01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:52,200 Speaker 1: nutrients from the deep, bringing them up to the surface 1627 01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:55,760 Speaker 1: for either critters to consume or to decompose and be 1628 01:19:55,920 --> 01:19:58,559 Speaker 1: released on the soil surface so they can start working 1629 01:19:58,600 --> 01:20:01,320 Speaker 1: the way back down through the soil for different depths 1630 01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:04,960 Speaker 1: of the different plant roots. That makes sense, And and 1631 01:20:05,120 --> 01:20:10,120 Speaker 1: so then you've got this diverse blend of carefully selected 1632 01:20:10,200 --> 01:20:13,320 Speaker 1: foragers that they grow that fall. You're feeding your deer, 1633 01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:17,160 Speaker 1: You're enjoying some great hunts over it. You're making sure 1634 01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:20,559 Speaker 1: these are healthy deer heading into the winter, now closing 1635 01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:24,240 Speaker 1: out the cycle or the cycle begins again the next spring. Now, 1636 01:20:24,880 --> 01:20:27,240 Speaker 1: in my in my example scenario, now I've got a 1637 01:20:27,320 --> 01:20:30,519 Speaker 1: fall crop that's been on these food plots. Now it 1638 01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:32,799 Speaker 1: sounds like what you're doing is and you're you're crimping 1639 01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:36,720 Speaker 1: terminating that whatever has come back the next spring. Right, 1640 01:20:36,840 --> 01:20:38,880 Speaker 1: So can you just describe can you close it out 1641 01:20:38,920 --> 01:20:40,640 Speaker 1: with what happens that next spring, now that you do 1642 01:20:40,800 --> 01:20:44,200 Speaker 1: have something that's across all the food plots. If I 1643 01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:46,560 Speaker 1: don't terminate in the spring, I'm not worried about in 1644 01:20:46,560 --> 01:20:49,280 Speaker 1: the fall at all. Right, My, my soy beans or 1645 01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:52,040 Speaker 1: even sometimes whatever I got out there is not going 1646 01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:54,120 Speaker 1: to produce an st seed unless you've got way more 1647 01:20:54,160 --> 01:20:55,920 Speaker 1: food plots that you've got deer, and very few of 1648 01:20:56,040 --> 01:20:58,559 Speaker 1: us have that for eagles. Seeds to become a weed, 1649 01:20:59,320 --> 01:21:01,360 Speaker 1: and a weed is is to plant growing. We don't 1650 01:21:01,400 --> 01:21:04,280 Speaker 1: want it. So, you know, a sunflower is almost never 1651 01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:06,240 Speaker 1: a weed. But if you let a sunflower seed go 1652 01:21:06,360 --> 01:21:08,880 Speaker 1: to a full head, that makes you know, hundreds or 1653 01:21:08,960 --> 01:21:11,360 Speaker 1: thousands of seeds and all of a sudden they come 1654 01:21:11,479 --> 01:21:13,160 Speaker 1: up when you're trying, you know, a hundred of them 1655 01:21:13,200 --> 01:21:15,160 Speaker 1: come up and to square a foot. Nothing good is 1656 01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:17,479 Speaker 1: gonna grow there. It's just too much competition. So I 1657 01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:20,400 Speaker 1: really don't like plants volunteering. It seems like, well, I 1658 01:21:20,439 --> 01:21:23,640 Speaker 1: can say so much money. But Southerners get this. You 1659 01:21:23,720 --> 01:21:26,599 Speaker 1: almost never count on a volunteer pine stand to pay 1660 01:21:26,600 --> 01:21:29,360 Speaker 1: your kids way through college because that pine tree is 1661 01:21:29,360 --> 01:21:31,320 Speaker 1: gonna put off so many cones and seeds, is too 1662 01:21:31,439 --> 01:21:34,559 Speaker 1: thick or too thin, and none of the woods really productive. 1663 01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:38,559 Speaker 1: That's why people plant pines on certain spacings to maximize production. 1664 01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:41,680 Speaker 1: The same thing with food, pop seed, same thing. So 1665 01:21:42,400 --> 01:21:45,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna plant crops in the summer that there's just 1666 01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:47,479 Speaker 1: no we're deer gonna eat them on plant and stuff 1667 01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:49,680 Speaker 1: designed for deer to eat, and they may get big, 1668 01:21:49,800 --> 01:21:53,040 Speaker 1: but the deer brows and enough, like soybeans, they make 1669 01:21:53,080 --> 01:21:55,000 Speaker 1: pods that the deer don't eat, but sometimes they're in 1670 01:21:55,000 --> 01:21:57,320 Speaker 1: the winter or a deer, turkey, a squirrel, a dove, 1671 01:21:57,439 --> 01:21:59,960 Speaker 1: whatever's gonna eat those things. I'm not worried about valling 1672 01:22:00,040 --> 01:22:02,479 Speaker 1: tira soybeans. I don't think anyone really is, unless you're 1673 01:22:02,479 --> 01:22:04,240 Speaker 1: a nag farmer and you're worry about two soybeans in 1674 01:22:04,240 --> 01:22:06,200 Speaker 1: the middle of a turn at the cornfield or something 1675 01:22:06,520 --> 01:22:09,400 Speaker 1: uh in my winter crop with all the cereal grains 1676 01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:13,000 Speaker 1: you know, common ones are cereal rye, not rye grass, 1677 01:22:13,040 --> 01:22:16,400 Speaker 1: cereal rye, oats, wheets, those are all common our braskets. 1678 01:22:16,439 --> 01:22:19,160 Speaker 1: If you've ever let a brasket go to seed, those 1679 01:22:19,200 --> 01:22:22,080 Speaker 1: little rassles make one bulb and forty million sea. I'm 1680 01:22:22,080 --> 01:22:25,719 Speaker 1: exaggerating thousands of seed per plant, and they're very viable 1681 01:22:25,760 --> 01:22:27,360 Speaker 1: seed if you let them get hard. So right now 1682 01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:31,320 Speaker 1: my braskets have that little two insulung spike looks like 1683 01:22:31,439 --> 01:22:34,840 Speaker 1: a pea, but much smaller, ten or leven seeds in there. 1684 01:22:35,280 --> 01:22:37,640 Speaker 1: Before those things are black and hard. I'm terminating with 1685 01:22:37,680 --> 01:22:40,599 Speaker 1: the crimper. That's why I terminate in the spring eight 1686 01:22:40,680 --> 01:22:44,439 Speaker 1: to get enough sunshine for my soybeans, real good and beans. 1687 01:22:44,439 --> 01:22:46,559 Speaker 1: So don't have a bunch of volunteer coming up at 1688 01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:48,519 Speaker 1: the wrong time of year. You don't want wheat or 1689 01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:52,120 Speaker 1: rye or oats drawing in the summer competing with your soybeans. 1690 01:22:52,160 --> 01:22:54,080 Speaker 1: That would be that would not be good. So I 1691 01:22:54,160 --> 01:22:57,400 Speaker 1: want to terminate that fall crop in the spring to 1692 01:22:57,560 --> 01:23:01,120 Speaker 1: give my spring crop ample room to g oh without 1693 01:23:01,400 --> 01:23:03,800 Speaker 1: weed again, a weed, it's just a plant growing at 1694 01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:05,640 Speaker 1: a place you don't want it to grow. So, like 1695 01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:08,160 Speaker 1: you know, if you've got marked four rows and your 1696 01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:11,280 Speaker 1: rabbit patch, it's a really good thing. You've got multiplour 1697 01:23:11,360 --> 01:23:13,559 Speaker 1: rows in your food plot or in your wife's garden 1698 01:23:13,640 --> 01:23:15,800 Speaker 1: or somewhere, it's a really bad thing. It's a weed 1699 01:23:15,960 --> 01:23:17,840 Speaker 1: or a good thing. Come on where you are. Um, 1700 01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:20,559 Speaker 1: So I terminate in the spring. I brought a full cycle, 1701 01:23:21,280 --> 01:23:23,840 Speaker 1: and and I'm and I'm drilling and and folks, some 1702 01:23:23,960 --> 01:23:25,840 Speaker 1: people ask me, well, you know how you break that 1703 01:23:25,920 --> 01:23:28,439 Speaker 1: bean cycle. I've been plant beans in the same plot 1704 01:23:28,479 --> 01:23:30,800 Speaker 1: here it's equivement grounds for sixteen years in a row 1705 01:23:31,400 --> 01:23:34,559 Speaker 1: and still growing great beans. And and the magic there 1706 01:23:34,720 --> 01:23:37,400 Speaker 1: is I've always got a fall plot, and it's a 1707 01:23:37,520 --> 01:23:39,880 Speaker 1: very diverse fault plot. And I may have diverse through 1708 01:23:39,920 --> 01:23:41,439 Speaker 1: the beans. I may or may not, but I've got 1709 01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:44,880 Speaker 1: a very diverse fall plot. So I am rotating crops. 1710 01:23:44,880 --> 01:23:46,720 Speaker 1: So I'm just doing it faster than some people do. 1711 01:23:47,640 --> 01:23:50,920 Speaker 1: I'm rotating. I've got that eight way plus wind in 1712 01:23:50,960 --> 01:23:53,799 Speaker 1: the fault. It's really working on the soil and different 1713 01:23:53,880 --> 01:23:57,280 Speaker 1: root depths and nights and structures and different chemicals being 1714 01:23:57,600 --> 01:24:01,559 Speaker 1: again excluded out of root tips. I'm rotating every year 1715 01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:04,880 Speaker 1: twice a year. Now, what if in this scenario we 1716 01:24:05,240 --> 01:24:07,000 Speaker 1: make it to the spring and we want to terminate, 1717 01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:09,320 Speaker 1: But what if we don't own a crimp? How can 1718 01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:14,519 Speaker 1: I keep the basic um tenants of this principle without 1719 01:24:14,600 --> 01:24:17,960 Speaker 1: a crimp? You can terminate with her beside. I'm I'm 1720 01:24:18,040 --> 01:24:20,400 Speaker 1: not anti herbside at all, guys. Should you know helps 1721 01:24:20,439 --> 01:24:21,800 Speaker 1: feed a bunch of people right now, But I think 1722 01:24:21,840 --> 01:24:24,680 Speaker 1: we're moving to systems worldwide where they may not be 1723 01:24:24,840 --> 01:24:28,599 Speaker 1: as important. Um. But so I want to use I'm 1724 01:24:28,640 --> 01:24:30,840 Speaker 1: not anti herbside. I want to use the least amount 1725 01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:32,920 Speaker 1: I have to purchase for many reasons. Hey, you know 1726 01:24:32,960 --> 01:24:35,439 Speaker 1: you're putting chemicals in soil. We can't deny that and 1727 01:24:35,800 --> 01:24:38,360 Speaker 1: be it's expensive and see it's time consuming to put 1728 01:24:38,439 --> 01:24:41,759 Speaker 1: on the ground. So if you can terminate with herbside 1729 01:24:41,800 --> 01:24:44,599 Speaker 1: small flox, I do this myself. You use a backpack sprayer. 1730 01:24:45,200 --> 01:24:47,479 Speaker 1: So we've come up with and pass it on our 1731 01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:49,640 Speaker 1: TP A little foot primper and the folks. If you 1732 01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:52,080 Speaker 1: want to train for l cunting, this is the tool. 1733 01:24:52,720 --> 01:24:55,240 Speaker 1: It's a like a Tuba sig. It's not It's like 1734 01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:57,160 Speaker 1: a Tuba six about I don't know, three or four 1735 01:24:57,200 --> 01:24:59,880 Speaker 1: ft long and got a couple of anger arms on 1736 01:24:59,920 --> 01:25:01,800 Speaker 1: the bottom. There's much more sciences than that. And I'm 1737 01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:04,000 Speaker 1: just kind of painting the picture in a rope and 1738 01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:06,400 Speaker 1: you just you put one foot on there and you 1739 01:25:06,560 --> 01:25:08,639 Speaker 1: use the rope to pick it up moving forward six 1740 01:25:08,720 --> 01:25:10,960 Speaker 1: and just step down and your weight becomes a crimper. 1741 01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:13,360 Speaker 1: And I use this in my small food plots where 1742 01:25:13,400 --> 01:25:15,080 Speaker 1: I don't have time to get the tractor in order. 1743 01:25:15,080 --> 01:25:16,720 Speaker 1: Back in the roods, I can't get the tractor too 1744 01:25:17,400 --> 01:25:21,120 Speaker 1: And on my small plots, I broadcast seed and then 1745 01:25:21,160 --> 01:25:24,640 Speaker 1: I crimped the existing vegetation with that foot crimper. And 1746 01:25:24,680 --> 01:25:26,840 Speaker 1: I wouldn't recommend this for a ten acre field because 1747 01:25:26,920 --> 01:25:29,679 Speaker 1: unless you're a really good athlete. But small small fields 1748 01:25:29,720 --> 01:25:33,000 Speaker 1: even I can do. And it's a tremol. They're a 1749 01:25:33,040 --> 01:25:36,200 Speaker 1: great tool. And that's that's a that's avail for seller. 1750 01:25:36,240 --> 01:25:38,720 Speaker 1: That's just a prototype thing you were using. No it 1751 01:25:38,840 --> 01:25:40,600 Speaker 1: is no, no, no. They took it and improved it 1752 01:25:40,720 --> 01:25:42,560 Speaker 1: and changed it, and this stuff better. And you know, 1753 01:25:42,640 --> 01:25:44,559 Speaker 1: they have Heaven for sale. I don't even know the price, 1754 01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:46,800 Speaker 1: but they have for sale. Mine my prototype is not 1755 01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:49,920 Speaker 1: near as good as what they have, but yeah, we've 1756 01:25:49,960 --> 01:25:52,000 Speaker 1: had done on the show, and I especially like it 1757 01:25:52,080 --> 01:25:54,639 Speaker 1: again from a little ideo food plots where it's either 1758 01:25:54,840 --> 01:25:58,160 Speaker 1: can't or seeing convenient to get attracted to. Rather than 1759 01:25:58,240 --> 01:26:00,360 Speaker 1: disc it up, I can just broadcast in a net 1760 01:26:00,400 --> 01:26:02,920 Speaker 1: standing crop and then using my foot crimper to going 1761 01:26:02,960 --> 01:26:05,280 Speaker 1: there and mash down the mulch. Yeah, that makes a 1762 01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:08,280 Speaker 1: lot of sense. Now I've heard some other people um 1763 01:26:09,360 --> 01:26:11,840 Speaker 1: mo instead of crimping, and if they don't have a 1764 01:26:11,880 --> 01:26:14,400 Speaker 1: big crimper, they've done kind of what you just describe, 1765 01:26:14,439 --> 01:26:17,160 Speaker 1: but then they mow to get the vegetation down and 1766 01:26:17,479 --> 01:26:20,680 Speaker 1: to form a you know, a greenhouse effect over that 1767 01:26:20,760 --> 01:26:23,000 Speaker 1: seed to get to Germany. Is there any downside to 1768 01:26:23,120 --> 01:26:25,280 Speaker 1: doing that or what are your thoughts on using that 1769 01:26:25,360 --> 01:26:28,360 Speaker 1: as an option? Yeah, that would be so simple and 1770 01:26:28,400 --> 01:26:30,120 Speaker 1: I would love to do that if it were could 1771 01:26:30,120 --> 01:26:32,360 Speaker 1: be simple. But every mower I've used, I mean I've 1772 01:26:32,400 --> 01:26:34,479 Speaker 1: used Clell Moore's and I've got the bush Hawk talk 1773 01:26:34,560 --> 01:26:37,160 Speaker 1: More and whatnot in my lawn mower, they don't throw 1774 01:26:37,200 --> 01:26:39,080 Speaker 1: the mulch out the clean pattern. So if you remember 1775 01:26:39,120 --> 01:26:42,519 Speaker 1: earlier we were talking about soul temperature, I'm not aware 1776 01:26:42,520 --> 01:26:45,120 Speaker 1: of anymore. To just lays it down like a crimper does. 1777 01:26:45,400 --> 01:26:47,919 Speaker 1: And then a lot of weed species, the grass weed species, 1778 01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:50,200 Speaker 1: you know what they're going back. You can't. You cannot 1779 01:26:50,280 --> 01:26:53,200 Speaker 1: mow Johnston grass out of existence. You know, it's just 1780 01:26:53,360 --> 01:26:57,920 Speaker 1: not going to terminate as good Mowing cutting of plants 1781 01:26:58,120 --> 01:27:00,320 Speaker 1: is not the same as breaking the whole plants reflect 1782 01:27:00,320 --> 01:27:02,519 Speaker 1: toward system, and it's spending all this tergew trying to 1783 01:27:02,560 --> 01:27:05,599 Speaker 1: heal those breaks. So a couple of factors. One, you're 1784 01:27:05,640 --> 01:27:07,519 Speaker 1: not gonna get an even spread. A multich just gonna 1785 01:27:07,560 --> 01:27:09,880 Speaker 1: be really thick in some places, which will shade out 1786 01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:13,000 Speaker 1: your crop, and no much in other places, which allows 1787 01:27:13,040 --> 01:27:15,599 Speaker 1: that soul to heat up and kill the beneficial bacteria 1788 01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:18,400 Speaker 1: and evacuate a lot of moisture. So you know, if 1789 01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:20,639 Speaker 1: you've got a more that just lays it down perfect, 1790 01:27:20,960 --> 01:27:24,040 Speaker 1: that would be ideal. I've yet to find that more. 1791 01:27:24,760 --> 01:27:26,880 Speaker 1: Hey crimpers, you know, I was raised on a farm. 1792 01:27:26,920 --> 01:27:29,479 Speaker 1: Hey crampers, whatever day, you know, there's a reasonably rate 1793 01:27:29,640 --> 01:27:31,720 Speaker 1: because hey, crimpers don't put it in the right place 1794 01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:34,639 Speaker 1: all the time. So I don't think mowing is as 1795 01:27:34,720 --> 01:27:38,880 Speaker 1: good of option. Okay, So that's that's the process, I mean, 1796 01:27:39,000 --> 01:27:40,920 Speaker 1: that's the cycle. The only other question I guess I 1797 01:27:40,960 --> 01:27:43,840 Speaker 1: have about the process is when it comes to using 1798 01:27:43,880 --> 01:27:46,240 Speaker 1: a drill, if if we can find a drill, if 1799 01:27:46,280 --> 01:27:49,720 Speaker 1: we can share a driller, rent one or whatever um, 1800 01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:52,680 Speaker 1: At least me personally, it seems a little intimidating. That's 1801 01:27:52,720 --> 01:27:55,240 Speaker 1: an implement I've never used. It seems like a little 1802 01:27:55,240 --> 01:27:57,439 Speaker 1: bit more involved, a little bit more to it than 1803 01:27:57,560 --> 01:27:59,960 Speaker 1: just dragging a you know, disk behind my fore wheeler. 1804 01:28:00,280 --> 01:28:01,799 Speaker 1: Do you have any just do you have any advice 1805 01:28:01,960 --> 01:28:04,040 Speaker 1: or tips for things to think about when using a 1806 01:28:04,120 --> 01:28:06,320 Speaker 1: no tail drill for the first time, or just anything 1807 01:28:06,360 --> 01:28:08,760 Speaker 1: we should be thinking about. Yeah, you know, they're they're 1808 01:28:08,800 --> 01:28:11,519 Speaker 1: really not the two things too. I mean, besides the 1809 01:28:11,640 --> 01:28:14,439 Speaker 1: normal mechanical stuff you could have a mind mind doesn't 1810 01:28:14,439 --> 01:28:16,400 Speaker 1: have any tires. Minds a three point hits model, which 1811 01:28:16,439 --> 01:28:20,240 Speaker 1: I really like. It makes turning. I equate a cool 1812 01:28:20,360 --> 01:28:23,000 Speaker 1: type drill and the three point hits to a regular 1813 01:28:23,040 --> 01:28:25,400 Speaker 1: more in a zero turn more. When we got rid 1814 01:28:25,439 --> 01:28:27,439 Speaker 1: of our regular more in which zero turn more. Right, 1815 01:28:27,479 --> 01:28:30,240 Speaker 1: now spend half the time moreing the yard. It's amazingly faster. 1816 01:28:30,840 --> 01:28:32,760 Speaker 1: And when you've got the pool type, you've got high 1817 01:28:32,800 --> 01:28:35,679 Speaker 1: drolly cses and not more parts to break or slow 1818 01:28:35,760 --> 01:28:38,240 Speaker 1: you down and you pull up, and you gotta back up. 1819 01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:40,160 Speaker 1: You gotta get it just right within a few inches 1820 01:28:40,520 --> 01:28:42,439 Speaker 1: where the three point hits. You just back up or 1821 01:28:42,479 --> 01:28:44,439 Speaker 1: you want to drop it and go. There's no highdrolly 1822 01:28:44,479 --> 01:28:46,720 Speaker 1: cses the right thing to break. It's much simpler, much 1823 01:28:46,800 --> 01:28:49,160 Speaker 1: much simpler. Hey be. The only thing to use in 1824 01:28:49,160 --> 01:28:51,080 Speaker 1: the drill, no matter which type of drill you use, 1825 01:28:51,640 --> 01:28:55,679 Speaker 1: is calibrating, and you want to calibrate every year because again, 1826 01:28:55,920 --> 01:28:58,439 Speaker 1: steed size is very you know it, maybe a wet 1827 01:28:58,560 --> 01:29:00,840 Speaker 1: year in boded corn and soybeans, seed, octwolber or whatever 1828 01:29:00,960 --> 01:29:03,360 Speaker 1: is really big, and the next year it's really drying 1829 01:29:03,400 --> 01:29:05,639 Speaker 1: and really small. So even if you're planting the exact 1830 01:29:05,720 --> 01:29:08,479 Speaker 1: same products, you still want to calibrate so you're planting 1831 01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:10,800 Speaker 1: the right amount of seeds breaker not too many so 1832 01:29:10,920 --> 01:29:13,919 Speaker 1: they outcompete, and not so few that you get weeds everywhere. 1833 01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:18,160 Speaker 1: Uh And and different drills calibrate differently. I will just 1834 01:29:18,200 --> 01:29:20,639 Speaker 1: share with you. I have a genesis and it's really cool. 1835 01:29:20,680 --> 01:29:22,360 Speaker 1: Let's got a little seed tray, So all I do 1836 01:29:22,680 --> 01:29:26,000 Speaker 1: is turn to all drills and have some contact with 1837 01:29:26,080 --> 01:29:28,920 Speaker 1: the ground and that drives. If you will the seed meters. 1838 01:29:29,400 --> 01:29:31,760 Speaker 1: So as that wheel on the ground turns, it knows 1839 01:29:32,280 --> 01:29:34,360 Speaker 1: faster and slower, how fast to turn the seed meters, 1840 01:29:34,400 --> 01:29:37,040 Speaker 1: how much seed to put out. So you turn your 1841 01:29:37,200 --> 01:29:40,400 Speaker 1: your your drive will if you will x amount of times. 1842 01:29:40,479 --> 01:29:42,360 Speaker 1: I do the math and do a hundredth of an acre. 1843 01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:44,559 Speaker 1: It's really simple. Most drills have dis published the manual 1844 01:29:44,640 --> 01:29:46,639 Speaker 1: to turn it twenty two times or cree five or whatever. 1845 01:29:47,560 --> 01:29:49,840 Speaker 1: And I put my seed in the drill, and the 1846 01:29:49,920 --> 01:29:51,640 Speaker 1: justice has a little seed trade. You just turn over 1847 01:29:51,680 --> 01:29:54,040 Speaker 1: and catches all seed. Others you gotta put a tarp down, boild, 1848 01:29:54,080 --> 01:29:56,080 Speaker 1: a drill or something to catch it, turn it and 1849 01:29:56,439 --> 01:29:59,439 Speaker 1: just stimulate planning a hundred hundredth of an acre and 1850 01:29:59,479 --> 01:30:01,439 Speaker 1: then wait seed and it should be a hundred If 1851 01:30:01,439 --> 01:30:03,240 Speaker 1: you want to plan a picky pounds breaker, then you 1852 01:30:03,280 --> 01:30:05,400 Speaker 1: know it's a Catholic pound or a hundredth of that. 1853 01:30:06,120 --> 01:30:08,000 Speaker 1: And you just adjust your seed meter up or down 1854 01:30:08,040 --> 01:30:11,880 Speaker 1: and calibrate it. That is absolutely toughest thing about using 1855 01:30:12,000 --> 01:30:15,360 Speaker 1: any drill. You just calibrate. And why wouldn't you want 1856 01:30:15,360 --> 01:30:18,360 Speaker 1: to calibrate because with this you get a well things 1857 01:30:18,400 --> 01:30:20,840 Speaker 1: are ever perfect, but an almost perfect planting versus well, 1858 01:30:20,880 --> 01:30:23,439 Speaker 1: I'm not a broadcast, and we've all done this. You 1859 01:30:23,520 --> 01:30:25,479 Speaker 1: put it in your broadcast, eat on a four wheeler 1860 01:30:25,600 --> 01:30:28,400 Speaker 1: or over the shoulder model you're seeing and you're doing 1861 01:30:28,479 --> 01:30:30,280 Speaker 1: you're feeling good, and you get halfway through the plot 1862 01:30:30,320 --> 01:30:31,920 Speaker 1: and you've either used all your seed or you have 1863 01:30:31,960 --> 01:30:35,760 Speaker 1: to use never much. We've all done it. I've done it. Yeah, 1864 01:30:35,800 --> 01:30:38,679 Speaker 1: we've all done it. And with the with the drill, 1865 01:30:39,439 --> 01:30:42,559 Speaker 1: you know, you get never perfect, but an almost perfect 1866 01:30:42,600 --> 01:30:45,360 Speaker 1: stand at just the right spacing. All that stuff. And 1867 01:30:45,720 --> 01:30:48,600 Speaker 1: some people use old chord planners, which is fine, but 1868 01:30:48,880 --> 01:30:50,920 Speaker 1: most of old pod planners are like on thirty inch 1869 01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:53,880 Speaker 1: rows or twenty four inch rows. Just think about this. 1870 01:30:54,000 --> 01:30:56,200 Speaker 1: Now you got all that sunshine coming down and causing 1871 01:30:56,240 --> 01:30:58,280 Speaker 1: weeds to grow that was made that way because of 1872 01:30:58,280 --> 01:31:02,120 Speaker 1: the sides of the combined head. It's never good plant biology, 1873 01:31:02,200 --> 01:31:05,679 Speaker 1: do that. Never. I plant mine at seven half intros. 1874 01:31:05,720 --> 01:31:08,160 Speaker 1: I plant all my species at seven half intros, and 1875 01:31:08,200 --> 01:31:10,320 Speaker 1: you're planting the same amount of seeds breakers, so they're 1876 01:31:10,320 --> 01:31:12,680 Speaker 1: still spaced out. But if you think about it, so 1877 01:31:12,840 --> 01:31:15,200 Speaker 1: being a third intro and really competing with each other's 1878 01:31:15,200 --> 01:31:18,080 Speaker 1: side to side. Now I've got equal spacing and they 1879 01:31:18,160 --> 01:31:20,920 Speaker 1: pull them a canopy quicker and keep the sun from 1880 01:31:21,000 --> 01:31:24,200 Speaker 1: it and sol that allows weeds to grow and that 1881 01:31:24,400 --> 01:31:26,640 Speaker 1: young little seed and seeding when it first grows, you 1882 01:31:26,720 --> 01:31:29,400 Speaker 1: know it has a really small root system. Well, when 1883 01:31:29,439 --> 01:31:31,200 Speaker 1: you're on thirty intros, you got all that down in 1884 01:31:31,240 --> 01:31:34,240 Speaker 1: the middle with fertilizer or linement on or whatever that 1885 01:31:34,360 --> 01:31:37,800 Speaker 1: the plant can't utilize, but on with every seven half intro, 1886 01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:40,599 Speaker 1: which means it has to reach three and a half inches. Man, 1887 01:31:40,640 --> 01:31:43,679 Speaker 1: in just a week or so, they're tapping all that ground. 1888 01:31:43,800 --> 01:31:48,200 Speaker 1: Nothing's going to waste. So seven half intros are really 1889 01:31:48,240 --> 01:31:50,640 Speaker 1: really good. If you don't know turf grass and they 1890 01:31:50,680 --> 01:31:53,519 Speaker 1: want to get coverage really quick is usually turf grass 1891 01:31:53,520 --> 01:31:55,799 Speaker 1: triels are usually three inches. They're planting every three inches. 1892 01:31:57,360 --> 01:31:59,600 Speaker 1: And also if you beings one more thing, if you 1893 01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:02,719 Speaker 1: put all your beams ont row, it is super easy 1894 01:32:02,800 --> 01:32:04,519 Speaker 1: for that old nanny dough to walk down the row 1895 01:32:04,600 --> 01:32:07,759 Speaker 1: and by the top off every one. I mean literally, 1896 01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:09,639 Speaker 1: there's been studies on this. But when you're in steven 1897 01:32:09,680 --> 01:32:12,320 Speaker 1: Atkins row, she's got to work a lot harder and 1898 01:32:12,520 --> 01:32:15,240 Speaker 1: probably won't consume quite as many of your seedlings before 1899 01:32:15,240 --> 01:32:16,640 Speaker 1: they have a chance to get up and survive. That 1900 01:32:16,680 --> 01:32:19,799 Speaker 1: amount of brows pressure. I guess I'm gonna be testing 1901 01:32:20,120 --> 01:32:22,560 Speaker 1: testing these theories soon, hopefully learning how to use a 1902 01:32:22,640 --> 01:32:25,000 Speaker 1: tool like that, and I'll report back in the in 1903 01:32:25,040 --> 01:32:26,560 Speaker 1: the coming months. And if I haven't been able to 1904 01:32:26,880 --> 01:32:29,400 Speaker 1: figure out how to properly calibrate and do these things, 1905 01:32:30,320 --> 01:32:32,720 Speaker 1: but it sounds like something I should be able to 1906 01:32:32,760 --> 01:32:35,479 Speaker 1: figure out, hopefully with a little bit of fiddling. Um, 1907 01:32:36,080 --> 01:32:40,080 Speaker 1: it's easy, It's easy, it really is. So how if 1908 01:32:40,120 --> 01:32:43,679 Speaker 1: we do this, if we implement a system like this, when, 1909 01:32:44,520 --> 01:32:49,080 Speaker 1: at what point and in what way can we measure success, 1910 01:32:49,400 --> 01:32:51,960 Speaker 1: whether that be success as far as improving the soil 1911 01:32:52,280 --> 01:32:56,479 Speaker 1: or the greater habitat provements and or dear, how do 1912 01:32:56,600 --> 01:32:58,880 Speaker 1: you look at success with something like this, and when 1913 01:32:58,960 --> 01:33:01,120 Speaker 1: do you start trying to quantify that in some way? 1914 01:33:01,479 --> 01:33:04,360 Speaker 1: I'm not sure. There's one indicator that I had to 1915 01:33:04,479 --> 01:33:07,080 Speaker 1: pick one, it would be a utilization cage, which is 1916 01:33:07,200 --> 01:33:11,000 Speaker 1: just simply some structure wire basket, wire cylinder that keeps 1917 01:33:11,080 --> 01:33:13,720 Speaker 1: deer from browsing. Let's say a three foot circle or 1918 01:33:13,720 --> 01:33:15,800 Speaker 1: four foot circle. Plants. I don't like the small ones 1919 01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:18,559 Speaker 1: because the deer's adult deer's tongue is about eleven inches long. 1920 01:33:19,080 --> 01:33:20,880 Speaker 1: So if you got a twenty in circle or reached 1921 01:33:20,920 --> 01:33:22,439 Speaker 1: all the way through the after hungry and need ever 1922 01:33:22,520 --> 01:33:24,600 Speaker 1: being inside of it, or whatever crop you got. So 1923 01:33:25,240 --> 01:33:28,639 Speaker 1: I put a utilization cage literally in every food plot, 1924 01:33:28,720 --> 01:33:31,519 Speaker 1: big and small. And I'm looking at the plant growth 1925 01:33:31,680 --> 01:33:35,200 Speaker 1: inside versus outside, which tells me a lot. You know, 1926 01:33:35,280 --> 01:33:37,880 Speaker 1: if it's three times tall were inside the gates versus outside, 1927 01:33:37,920 --> 01:33:39,960 Speaker 1: I got too many deer and not enough food. And 1928 01:33:40,080 --> 01:33:42,320 Speaker 1: if there's no weeds inside where I'm shading it out 1929 01:33:42,400 --> 01:33:44,160 Speaker 1: and a bunch of weeds outside, you know, I've got 1930 01:33:44,200 --> 01:33:46,880 Speaker 1: some other issues going on. So that's really simple. I 1931 01:33:46,960 --> 01:33:48,640 Speaker 1: look at dear body weights every year, and there's a 1932 01:33:48,680 --> 01:33:50,679 Speaker 1: lot of factors. Okay, what did the neighbors have planet 1933 01:33:50,880 --> 01:33:52,840 Speaker 1: I'm in an nery, or there's zero. When I say zero, 1934 01:33:53,360 --> 01:33:56,080 Speaker 1: I've never seen a grain beIN a silo. There's nothing 1935 01:33:56,160 --> 01:33:58,240 Speaker 1: like that for counties around me. I'm in timber country, 1936 01:33:58,320 --> 01:34:01,719 Speaker 1: so acorns are factor. I might having really heavy acorn 1937 01:34:01,800 --> 01:34:03,560 Speaker 1: crop and body weights maybe up a little bit in 1938 01:34:03,600 --> 01:34:05,880 Speaker 1: the later season, not to early season. But I look 1939 01:34:05,920 --> 01:34:08,080 Speaker 1: at that. I look at average chantler size and a 1940 01:34:08,280 --> 01:34:10,639 Speaker 1: really good indicator of how you're doing it. Your soil 1941 01:34:10,800 --> 01:34:13,040 Speaker 1: is before you start this, go out there with a 1942 01:34:13,120 --> 01:34:16,519 Speaker 1: shovel at random places, floppy a couple of shovelfuls of 1943 01:34:16,560 --> 01:34:19,599 Speaker 1: dirt over and see if there's wormholes or worms. Again, 1944 01:34:19,680 --> 01:34:21,240 Speaker 1: when the soil's got some moisture. If you do this 1945 01:34:21,280 --> 01:34:23,519 Speaker 1: in julyne hadn't rained the two months, the worms are 1946 01:34:23,520 --> 01:34:25,240 Speaker 1: down there six feet deep and you're not gonna see them. 1947 01:34:25,439 --> 01:34:27,040 Speaker 1: But you know, an average screen day, you go out 1948 01:34:27,040 --> 01:34:30,200 Speaker 1: there in whippelow soil over CPC signs earth worms. Or 1949 01:34:30,560 --> 01:34:32,960 Speaker 1: if you got really good or for populations like I do, 1950 01:34:33,680 --> 01:34:35,639 Speaker 1: you start seeing their droppings would be like a little 1951 01:34:35,680 --> 01:34:37,760 Speaker 1: teeping piles on top to soil. That's when you know 1952 01:34:37,840 --> 01:34:40,599 Speaker 1: you're getting there. I mean, that's all incredible fertilizer. When 1953 01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:42,880 Speaker 1: you have so many worms, you're making droppings on top 1954 01:34:42,960 --> 01:34:45,920 Speaker 1: to soil, you are growing some crops. If you want 1955 01:34:45,920 --> 01:34:48,120 Speaker 1: to get little more sophisticated, you can always take sporage 1956 01:34:48,120 --> 01:34:50,080 Speaker 1: samples and send it to any good lab. I use 1957 01:34:50,240 --> 01:34:52,760 Speaker 1: waters Agg in Kentucky W A. T. E. R. S 1958 01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:56,000 Speaker 1: Agg dot com and I can send them some leaves 1959 01:34:56,040 --> 01:34:58,040 Speaker 1: and they're telling me the nutrient value of the leaves, 1960 01:34:58,439 --> 01:35:00,320 Speaker 1: so you can measure a lot of way days. But 1961 01:35:00,479 --> 01:35:02,879 Speaker 1: for most of us that are dear guys, are utilised 1962 01:35:03,360 --> 01:35:07,000 Speaker 1: are utilization cage showing us the difference of inside and outside, 1963 01:35:07,520 --> 01:35:09,280 Speaker 1: and a shovel can tell us an awful lot when 1964 01:35:09,280 --> 01:35:11,320 Speaker 1: you when you pull a root up or you shovel 1965 01:35:11,360 --> 01:35:14,439 Speaker 1: a root up, are you getting a lot of root 1966 01:35:14,479 --> 01:35:17,439 Speaker 1: growth or is it really shallow and compacted and and 1967 01:35:17,520 --> 01:35:19,680 Speaker 1: your telexes roots do down a few inches where that 1968 01:35:19,800 --> 01:35:22,000 Speaker 1: hards on is and in turn sideways they turning nine 1969 01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:24,360 Speaker 1: needs your angle. Then you've got a real hard pan 1970 01:35:24,560 --> 01:35:26,760 Speaker 1: and you probably need to plant some radishes or something 1971 01:35:26,800 --> 01:35:32,000 Speaker 1: with a really strong root system to bust that hard pan. Yeah, 1972 01:35:32,240 --> 01:35:34,040 Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's really helpful and and 1973 01:35:34,280 --> 01:35:36,960 Speaker 1: pretty easy to follow. Yeah, I think I said earlier 1974 01:35:36,960 --> 01:35:39,080 Speaker 1: in the in the podcast when the best thing you 1975 01:35:39,120 --> 01:35:41,519 Speaker 1: can do is have boots on the ground and go 1976 01:35:41,640 --> 01:35:43,439 Speaker 1: out to your fields. Don't just plan them and come 1977 01:35:43,439 --> 01:35:45,360 Speaker 1: back and hunt over them, you know later, go out 1978 01:35:45,400 --> 01:35:47,120 Speaker 1: there and see what's going on. Are you are your 1979 01:35:47,160 --> 01:35:49,120 Speaker 1: cobra plants making a lot of big boons or the 1980 01:35:49,160 --> 01:35:52,200 Speaker 1: booms look kind of puny um, you know, Or are 1981 01:35:52,280 --> 01:35:54,400 Speaker 1: your beans making a lot of pods or they all 1982 01:35:54,479 --> 01:35:59,120 Speaker 1: browsed off is the is the the annual small grains 1983 01:35:59,160 --> 01:36:02,439 Speaker 1: wheat Ryoh are are they brows about? Lipie and Jane work? 1984 01:36:02,680 --> 01:36:04,840 Speaker 1: You know, just kind of some common observations will let 1985 01:36:04,880 --> 01:36:08,080 Speaker 1: you know how you're working. Yeah. And the best test, 1986 01:36:08,240 --> 01:36:10,720 Speaker 1: of course is for you Mark especially this takes a 1987 01:36:10,760 --> 01:36:12,640 Speaker 1: little bit more time, So don't suggest a lot of 1988 01:36:12,640 --> 01:36:16,360 Speaker 1: people do this. But you conventionally agg teal and maximum 1989 01:36:16,479 --> 01:36:18,880 Speaker 1: input on a part of your plot in the buffalo 1990 01:36:18,960 --> 01:36:21,599 Speaker 1: system on the other part, and watch it the first year. 1991 01:36:21,640 --> 01:36:23,960 Speaker 1: I can tell you convinceal ag we went. I'll promise 1992 01:36:23,960 --> 01:36:26,320 Speaker 1: you that. Uh, but watch it for three years, and 1993 01:36:26,640 --> 01:36:28,599 Speaker 1: also watch how much money you're spending on each part 1994 01:36:28,720 --> 01:36:33,200 Speaker 1: and how much time. That's uh, it's really really, really intriguing. 1995 01:36:33,280 --> 01:36:35,880 Speaker 1: And like I mentioned at the top, just over the 1996 01:36:35,960 --> 01:36:37,920 Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, as I kind of discovered this 1997 01:36:38,040 --> 01:36:40,519 Speaker 1: idea and then just start diving into the literature and 1998 01:36:40,560 --> 01:36:43,280 Speaker 1: the articles and and all the different things out there, 1999 01:36:43,680 --> 01:36:48,000 Speaker 1: it's it's the most excited I've been about new habitat 2000 01:36:48,040 --> 01:36:50,600 Speaker 1: related work because it just seems to it seems to 2001 01:36:50,640 --> 01:36:53,320 Speaker 1: make a whole lot of sense, both from from the 2002 01:36:53,640 --> 01:36:55,600 Speaker 1: goals that you can accomplish with it and then just 2003 01:36:55,720 --> 01:36:58,120 Speaker 1: like the way you go about it, which just seems 2004 01:36:58,160 --> 01:37:01,640 Speaker 1: like much more in sync with the natural way and 2005 01:37:01,800 --> 01:37:04,240 Speaker 1: much healthier for the whole place. And I always like 2006 01:37:04,320 --> 01:37:06,519 Speaker 1: to think that when we as hunters always talk about 2007 01:37:06,520 --> 01:37:09,400 Speaker 1: how we are you know, some of the very very 2008 01:37:09,479 --> 01:37:12,120 Speaker 1: first and greatest conservations out there, and we do a 2009 01:37:12,200 --> 01:37:15,560 Speaker 1: whole lot of things that that benefit the wildlife and 2010 01:37:15,640 --> 01:37:18,120 Speaker 1: wild places around us. But but sometimes I feel like 2011 01:37:18,200 --> 01:37:21,559 Speaker 1: some of these conventional practices have been damaging stuff. I mean, 2012 01:37:21,640 --> 01:37:23,439 Speaker 1: you talked about the damage done to the soil and 2013 01:37:23,479 --> 01:37:25,760 Speaker 1: how that it really is the foundation for all the 2014 01:37:25,840 --> 01:37:28,240 Speaker 1: rest of the fauna and floor out there. So I 2015 01:37:28,280 --> 01:37:30,360 Speaker 1: feel like this is a way to kind of plug 2016 01:37:30,439 --> 01:37:33,360 Speaker 1: a couple of those holes in our in our processes 2017 01:37:33,400 --> 01:37:35,639 Speaker 1: out there and the ways that we can be good stewards. 2018 01:37:35,720 --> 01:37:39,800 Speaker 1: So so I'm just really excited. I really appreciate taking 2019 01:37:39,840 --> 01:37:42,080 Speaker 1: the time to walk me through all this. And uh, 2020 01:37:42,160 --> 01:37:45,439 Speaker 1: I guess my last question would just be for me 2021 01:37:45,760 --> 01:37:48,320 Speaker 1: and or anybody else out there who is interested in 2022 01:37:48,479 --> 01:37:51,160 Speaker 1: learning more about this stuff. Um, I guess number one, 2023 01:37:51,280 --> 01:37:54,200 Speaker 1: where can we learn more from you? And then number two, 2024 01:37:54,680 --> 01:37:57,960 Speaker 1: do you have any recommended books or other online resources? 2025 01:37:58,040 --> 01:38:00,639 Speaker 1: Maybe where we could learn more about regenerative our culture 2026 01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:03,479 Speaker 1: or any of the bigger picture stuff. Yeah. Great, great questions. 2027 01:38:03,520 --> 01:38:05,280 Speaker 1: I stepping over here and get some books on myself. 2028 01:38:05,320 --> 01:38:07,320 Speaker 1: When you said that, I buy them on and read 2029 01:38:07,360 --> 01:38:10,160 Speaker 1: a bunch on this. I'm really into it. Um, you 2030 01:38:10,200 --> 01:38:11,680 Speaker 1: can learn about it, not a matter of fact, our 2031 01:38:11,720 --> 01:38:13,600 Speaker 1: current episodes all about this. You can just go to 2032 01:38:13,680 --> 01:38:17,679 Speaker 1: growing deer dot com and you know YouTube, Roku, Apple 2033 01:38:17,760 --> 01:38:21,040 Speaker 1: tv probably anywhere to streams you can find us, or 2034 01:38:21,120 --> 01:38:22,760 Speaker 1: just go to our website go one deer dot com 2035 01:38:23,560 --> 01:38:27,479 Speaker 1: and there's episodes in past years or current wines all 2036 01:38:27,479 --> 01:38:30,120 Speaker 1: about this. Uh, there's some great books out there. I 2037 01:38:30,160 --> 01:38:33,560 Speaker 1: want to start by saying that a couple of organizations, 2038 01:38:34,439 --> 01:38:37,000 Speaker 1: uh that are really awesome. And these some of these 2039 01:38:37,040 --> 01:38:39,600 Speaker 1: are government's supported, so you know, it's kind of your 2040 01:38:39,680 --> 01:38:41,680 Speaker 1: tax dollars at work here, but they're doing some great work. 2041 01:38:41,760 --> 01:38:43,320 Speaker 1: And I don't say that a lot about a lot 2042 01:38:43,400 --> 01:38:47,560 Speaker 1: of government agencies out there, uh, but uh, one of 2043 01:38:47,640 --> 01:38:50,200 Speaker 1: them that I read a lot and care on is 2044 01:38:50,560 --> 01:38:53,840 Speaker 1: is s A R E. S A are easy acronym. 2045 01:38:53,920 --> 01:38:56,840 Speaker 1: You can google this, you find it and it's Sustainable 2046 01:38:56,920 --> 01:39:00,640 Speaker 1: Agriculture research and Education in this group just does an 2047 01:39:00,720 --> 01:39:03,720 Speaker 1: incredible job and they don't ask for anything from US 2048 01:39:04,120 --> 01:39:07,360 Speaker 1: land managers and return. There's all kinds of books and publications. 2049 01:39:07,360 --> 01:39:09,400 Speaker 1: A lot of them are available for free as a download. 2050 01:39:09,520 --> 01:39:11,800 Speaker 1: I like to read a book holding by the hand, 2051 01:39:11,920 --> 01:39:14,120 Speaker 1: so I think the most princy book I ever bought 2052 01:39:14,120 --> 01:39:17,200 Speaker 1: from was like ten or fifteen dollars. I think it's 2053 01:39:17,240 --> 01:39:20,280 Speaker 1: really good. A great book, A really great book that 2054 01:39:20,320 --> 01:39:24,000 Speaker 1: goes over these principles, probably even in more detail. Is 2055 01:39:24,080 --> 01:39:29,800 Speaker 1: A Soil Owner's Manual, A Soil Owned Owner's Manual by 2056 01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:32,960 Speaker 1: John stick Up s t i k A. He was 2057 01:39:33,040 --> 01:39:37,560 Speaker 1: a soil scientist in North Dakota. John stick To s 2058 01:39:37,640 --> 01:39:40,240 Speaker 1: t i k A. He had a long career and 2059 01:39:40,320 --> 01:39:42,800 Speaker 1: man he made a lot of observations from going from 2060 01:39:42,960 --> 01:39:45,919 Speaker 1: native pastures out there, I mean original prairie to maximum 2061 01:39:45,960 --> 01:39:48,559 Speaker 1: till it's too people trying to regenerate and restore those 2062 01:39:48,680 --> 01:39:51,639 Speaker 1: and you know, a long career of watching these changes 2063 01:39:51,880 --> 01:39:55,040 Speaker 1: and becoming to believe himself. It's a small book of 2064 01:39:55,640 --> 01:39:58,479 Speaker 1: about eighty pages, and it's an I give that book 2065 01:39:58,520 --> 01:40:01,040 Speaker 1: to people. It's just a a great book for people 2066 01:40:01,040 --> 01:40:04,440 Speaker 1: who want to learn about this. Uh. The Rodale Institute 2067 01:40:05,200 --> 01:40:08,000 Speaker 1: the Rodale Institute, which is I'm getting me to spell 2068 01:40:08,120 --> 01:40:09,600 Speaker 1: that for you, and I don't want to butcher, so 2069 01:40:09,600 --> 01:40:12,840 Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna look in here and see, oh is 2070 01:40:13,280 --> 01:40:17,479 Speaker 1: uh R O d a l E. R O D 2071 01:40:17,800 --> 01:40:21,719 Speaker 1: A l E is a nonprofit farm started thirty plus 2072 01:40:21,840 --> 01:40:26,200 Speaker 1: years ago by businessman in Pennsylvania that was concerned about 2073 01:40:26,200 --> 01:40:29,840 Speaker 1: the nutrient quality of foods. Were eating nutrient quality foods. 2074 01:40:29,880 --> 01:40:32,240 Speaker 1: And I'm sure all your listeners know a lot of 2075 01:40:32,320 --> 01:40:35,080 Speaker 1: people think a lot of the major diseases we're facing 2076 01:40:35,920 --> 01:40:39,760 Speaker 1: in critters and certainly humans because of our nutrient poor 2077 01:40:39,840 --> 01:40:42,679 Speaker 1: food for example, And I bet some of your listeners 2078 01:40:42,760 --> 01:40:46,120 Speaker 1: may not know this. Common crops like broccoli and spinach 2079 01:40:46,439 --> 01:40:51,280 Speaker 1: are forty or more less in nutrients in the same 2080 01:40:51,360 --> 01:40:55,280 Speaker 1: crop thirty years ago. What we do to deplicate soils. 2081 01:40:55,760 --> 01:40:59,400 Speaker 1: There are oranges grown now that have zero vitamin suit 2082 01:40:59,600 --> 01:41:03,800 Speaker 1: totally to to depleted soil, synthetic fertilizer, er whatever. Uh, 2083 01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:06,200 Speaker 1: we're not eating as a nation. You may be eating 2084 01:41:06,280 --> 01:41:09,400 Speaker 1: the same amount of calories, but you are not getting 2085 01:41:09,720 --> 01:41:13,559 Speaker 1: the same amount of minerals that your parents got. Unless 2086 01:41:13,680 --> 01:41:15,880 Speaker 1: you're a you know, an organic gardener. You know you're 2087 01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:18,559 Speaker 1: you're raising your own. So folks, what I do, literally, 2088 01:41:18,640 --> 01:41:22,479 Speaker 1: I buy thirty some ub species of garden plants. There's 2089 01:41:22,520 --> 01:41:25,160 Speaker 1: no magic to this. I just go to the store 2090 01:41:25,240 --> 01:41:27,519 Speaker 1: and start loading up my buggy, put all the five 2091 01:41:27,600 --> 01:41:29,880 Speaker 1: yallon bucket, mix it all together, put it in my 2092 01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:32,560 Speaker 1: no til drill and drill some strips right in the 2093 01:41:32,600 --> 01:41:34,880 Speaker 1: middle of my food pop right in the middle. There's 2094 01:41:34,920 --> 01:41:37,320 Speaker 1: no magic to this. It's I mean, there's melons and 2095 01:41:37,360 --> 01:41:40,240 Speaker 1: squash and several times the beans of peaks, and some 2096 01:41:40,400 --> 01:41:42,280 Speaker 1: of the work, and some of them don't. Some of 2097 01:41:42,280 --> 01:41:45,320 Speaker 1: them I never see. And uh man, it's a garden. 2098 01:41:45,320 --> 01:41:47,680 Speaker 1: It's a weed free garden. And the only thing I 2099 01:41:47,800 --> 01:41:50,240 Speaker 1: do is drill it one day, and then about midsummer 2100 01:41:50,280 --> 01:41:53,160 Speaker 1: start picking produce and bring it in the house. And 2101 01:41:53,479 --> 01:41:55,280 Speaker 1: you know, you can buy an acre or seed pretty 2102 01:41:55,320 --> 01:41:58,120 Speaker 1: cheap when you're buying in that volume. And and all 2103 01:41:58,160 --> 01:42:00,400 Speaker 1: of a sudden, your wife really likes food plot and 2104 01:42:00,560 --> 01:42:03,800 Speaker 1: so it's a it's of course, deary, whatever we don't eat. 2105 01:42:03,840 --> 01:42:06,160 Speaker 1: So it's a great thing. And I put them all together. 2106 01:42:06,280 --> 01:42:09,240 Speaker 1: This is a little rows of carrots and tomatoes like 2107 01:42:09,439 --> 01:42:11,080 Speaker 1: you know in your parents guard that you had to weed. 2108 01:42:11,200 --> 01:42:14,559 Speaker 1: I mixed them all together, all of them, playing them 2109 01:42:14,600 --> 01:42:17,000 Speaker 1: all together and just let whatever comes up come up. 2110 01:42:17,240 --> 01:42:20,240 Speaker 1: It's it's incredible. Yeah, there's some great resources out there. 2111 01:42:20,320 --> 01:42:21,960 Speaker 1: Those just a couple of easy ones that are good 2112 01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:26,880 Speaker 1: starter ones. The s A r. E Institute online, they've 2113 01:42:26,920 --> 01:42:31,640 Speaker 1: got all kinds of great information. Excellent. Well, Grant, I 2114 01:42:31,760 --> 01:42:34,760 Speaker 1: can't tell you how helpful this has been. And and 2115 01:42:34,880 --> 01:42:37,639 Speaker 1: you mentioned the most recent episode that you guys have out. 2116 01:42:37,720 --> 01:42:39,840 Speaker 1: I took a look at that as well just before 2117 01:42:39,840 --> 01:42:43,360 Speaker 1: we chatted, and that was a really great visual um 2118 01:42:43,600 --> 01:42:45,720 Speaker 1: supplement to I think what we talked about here today. 2119 01:42:45,760 --> 01:42:48,800 Speaker 1: So would highly recommend anyone out there definitely go watch 2120 01:42:48,920 --> 01:42:51,720 Speaker 1: that because it will really illustrate what Grant has walked 2121 01:42:51,800 --> 01:42:54,320 Speaker 1: us through as well as UM. Like you mentioned, Grant, 2122 01:42:54,320 --> 01:42:56,000 Speaker 1: you have a whole lot of past videos. I saw 2123 01:42:56,040 --> 01:42:59,639 Speaker 1: that on YouTube. You had a playlist that had all 2124 01:42:59,720 --> 01:43:01,960 Speaker 1: the day for episodes over the years you've done that 2125 01:43:02,040 --> 01:43:04,280 Speaker 1: we're related to this. You put them in a Buffalo 2126 01:43:04,360 --> 01:43:06,360 Speaker 1: Food Plot Systems playlist. If you want to go back 2127 01:43:06,439 --> 01:43:09,000 Speaker 1: and look through the archives of growing to your TV. 2128 01:43:09,800 --> 01:43:11,800 Speaker 1: Your team there did a great job of organizing them 2129 01:43:11,800 --> 01:43:14,240 Speaker 1: all there so you can see the different things you've 2130 01:43:14,280 --> 01:43:16,800 Speaker 1: done over the years and how your system has progressed. Um, 2131 01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:19,800 Speaker 1: and I found that really interesting too. So this is 2132 01:43:19,880 --> 01:43:23,240 Speaker 1: really really interesting and I appreciate you, Graham, thank you. 2133 01:43:23,439 --> 01:43:24,840 Speaker 1: I want to say just one last thing and do 2134 01:43:24,960 --> 01:43:27,240 Speaker 1: what I do. Just go to YouTube and uh, you know, 2135 01:43:27,360 --> 01:43:30,719 Speaker 1: search on regenity bag or cover crops and those keywords 2136 01:43:31,160 --> 01:43:33,720 Speaker 1: and one tip on ad I've been doing this for years, 2137 01:43:33,800 --> 01:43:36,960 Speaker 1: but I would watch like two thousand and seventeen, two 2138 01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:39,280 Speaker 1: thousand and eighteen and four because we're all learning all 2139 01:43:39,320 --> 01:43:41,720 Speaker 1: the time. So even stuff I thought about this in 2140 01:43:41,840 --> 01:43:44,000 Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen, I may have changed my mind or 2141 01:43:44,080 --> 01:43:46,920 Speaker 1: done differently. So there's thousands out there. So I just 2142 01:43:47,000 --> 01:43:48,719 Speaker 1: watch some more current Once you get the most current 2143 01:43:48,760 --> 01:43:51,439 Speaker 1: information and offer it a little bit to apply to 2144 01:43:51,479 --> 01:43:54,439 Speaker 1: your food plot situation and have fun with it. Great, 2145 01:43:54,520 --> 01:43:57,639 Speaker 1: great advice. Well, I'm gonna be putting all this into 2146 01:43:57,680 --> 01:43:59,760 Speaker 1: action this year. I can't wait to see how it goes. 2147 01:44:00,040 --> 01:44:02,439 Speaker 1: And I'll keep you posted, Grant, and uh, I'm sure 2148 01:44:02,479 --> 01:44:04,880 Speaker 1: it's gonna help. Mark. Thank you for the time to 2149 01:44:04,960 --> 01:44:06,760 Speaker 1: share with your audience, and I look forward to hearing 2150 01:44:06,760 --> 01:44:10,360 Speaker 1: about your project. Sounds a good plan and that is 2151 01:44:10,479 --> 01:44:13,599 Speaker 1: a rap UM, hopefully you guys enjoy this one as 2152 01:44:13,680 --> 01:44:16,120 Speaker 1: much as I did. As you can tell, UM, I'm 2153 01:44:16,200 --> 01:44:19,400 Speaker 1: just really personally intrigued by this stuff. Like I mentioned 2154 01:44:19,479 --> 01:44:23,440 Speaker 1: up to the top, UM, nothing against conventional methods of agriculture, 2155 01:44:23,479 --> 01:44:25,200 Speaker 1: like there's a place for that, I know, And I 2156 01:44:25,280 --> 01:44:27,840 Speaker 1: also know that I don't know everything, so I'm just 2157 01:44:28,040 --> 01:44:32,040 Speaker 1: figuring this out myself. UM, but I'm at least intrigued 2158 01:44:32,040 --> 01:44:35,160 Speaker 1: and excited about the opportunities to maybe, in some small way, 2159 01:44:35,479 --> 01:44:37,799 Speaker 1: do something a little bit differently than might be positive. 2160 01:44:37,920 --> 01:44:39,800 Speaker 1: So if you guys know more, if you want to 2161 01:44:39,840 --> 01:44:43,000 Speaker 1: share me your experiences or insights or different opinions, I'd 2162 01:44:43,000 --> 01:44:46,960 Speaker 1: love to hear that too. UM. I'm just all for learning, 2163 01:44:47,280 --> 01:44:49,160 Speaker 1: and I think this is gonna be a great opportunity 2164 01:44:49,160 --> 01:44:52,719 Speaker 1: to do so. So until next time, thank you for listening, 2165 01:44:53,080 --> 01:44:55,439 Speaker 1: thanks for being a part of this community, and until 2166 01:44:55,520 --> 01:45:03,200 Speaker 1: next time, stay wired to hunt the Broken Book to 2167 01:45:03,360 --> 01:45:03,960 Speaker 1: getting bet