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Managing for Whitetails: Don’t Forget About Fawns

Help your fawn crop now for better hunting down the road.
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Are You Wasting Food Plot Fertilizer?

You have good intentions spreading fertilizer on your food plots, but are you wasting time and money?
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A Food Plotter’s Guide to Herbicides

Proper use of herbicides can help prevent weed growth in food plots, resulting in more high-quality food for whitetails.
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5 Summer Food Plot Pitfalls

Summer food plots are one of the best ways to ensure your deer are receiving the amount of protein they need to grow larger antlers, add bodyweight and birth healthier fawns. However, you’ll want to be sure to avoid five pitfalls that can ruin your efforts.
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Create Mineral Licks on the Cheap

This time of year, deer are actively searching for salt. That's why mineral licks make excellent trail camera spots in the summer. Here's how to create your own.
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A 24-Hour Can-Am UTV Test Drive on Your Property for Free? It’s True.

Even though you might not be a farmer, that doesn’t mean you can’t take advantage of Can-Am’s Defender Farm Test Program.
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A Simple Solution to Calculating ATV Sprayer Rates

ATV sprayer coverage calculations are confusing, but thankfully there’s a simple way to learn how much water and weed killer to spray on your food plots.
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Fertilizing Mast Trees for Deer

Did you know you can encourage select mast trees to produce bumper acorn crops year after year? Here’s how.
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Making Deer Beds

Just as we can affect whitetail feeding locations with food plots and more desirable native forages, we can also have a significant affect on deer bedding locations.
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Deer Hunters: 3 Affordable and Beneficial Habitat Improvements

You don’t have to be a food plot farmer to improve habitat for whitetails.
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Hold Deer on Your Property by Planting Food Plots for Each Season

Before finalizing your wildlife management plans for this year, consider planting food plots for each season based on tips from these experts.
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Killer Food Plots Smoke Screen

To enter and exit treestands without alerting whitetails, it’s wise to hide behind tall cover such as Smoke Screen, especially when bowhunting near food plots.
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How To Create Your Property's Soft Edges to Improve Deer Habitat

Successful land managers view properties not as a block of individual microcosms, but as a single, living organism with soft edges to improve deer habitat.
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Non-Native, Invasive Plants Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Deer Habitat

Non-native, invasive plants don’t just overwhelm native plant communities. They rob deer habitat of valuable food sources.
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Frost Seeding Food Plots for Success

Believe it or not, it’s not too early to begin planning for the fall 2019 whitetail deer season, especially when it comes to food plots.

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Don't Quit on Quality Deer Management, It WILL Increase Antler Size

Quality deer management will increase antler size, but too often hunters don't buy into the recommendations because the results aren't there. Why?