Episode #66 - Don has Mel officially scored. Discussion about planting food plot seed. Is planting seed heavy good or bad?

Published: 2021-05-24
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Duration: 70 min

In this episode

announcement

• Terry announces the next episode will air Memorial Day weekend. 68:31

chip-shortage

• Terry says Ford trucks are being stored at the Kentucky Speedway lots near the Louisville assembly plant due to the chip shortage. 28:28

chris-yates

• Don says Chris Yates is a great guy and a Christian man whose word is as good as gold. 29:42
• Terry says Chris Yates does mission and community work including soup kitchens and meals for the homeless in his community. 30:46
• Terry says Chris has offered to fund situations needing immediate financial commitment for families helped through the Lester’s Feet raffle. 31:12

consulting

• Don says on consulting visits clients often show him what they think is a great stand location that actually has terrible access. 60:56

corn

• Don says most farmers today plant corn on 30-inch rows. 14:32

danny-york

• Terry describes his friend Danny York as the biggest stickler for scent he’s ever seen. 62:49
• Terry says Danny York also hunts the right way, treating scent precautions as just another layer for increasing his chances. 62:59

deer-trails

• Brad asks whether he should cut or spray paths through timber cluttered with treetops, TSI debris, and multiflora rows for deer movement. 43:22

food-plot

• Don says his corn plot flooded when a creek overflowed after five and a half inches of rain, washing away his seed and fertilizer. 4:48
• Don plans to replant his flooded corn plot within a day or two, hoping for better luck the second time. 5:06
• Terry recommends listeners not panic about food plot timing and instead plant based on conditions rather than the calendar. 68:50

friends-helping

• Terry says two friends came in and helped him work ground and plant his soybean plots while he was dealing with his injury. 3:11
• Don saw a picture of Patrick Simpson working Terry’s plots on a big old international tractor. 3:37
• Terry says Patrick Simpson’s tractor threw a dust cloud visible from two miles away as he worked the ground. 4:03

herbicide

• Don is unsure how much residual herbicide from his failed corn planting might affect a fall Deadly Dozen plot on the same ground. 5:52
• Don recommends searching for the soybean herbicide Intimidator online, a three-chemical residual product he’s trying that targets water hemp. 7:29

hunter-stanley

• Terry says junior pro staffer Hunter Stanley, a freshman at Williamstown High School in Kentucky, did his science project on EHD. 66:02
• Terry says Hunter has a Zoom meeting the next day to learn if he places first in Kentucky’s state EHD science competition. 66:41
• Terry says Hunter is already a licensed taxidermist as a freshman in high school. 67:14

hunting-discipline

• Terry says being disciplined enough to hunt less, only in the right conditions, pays big dividends. 62:06

injury

• Terry describes injuring his knee in a tractor mishap and needing knee reconstruction last July. 1:21

junior-pro-staff

• Don says another junior pro staffer is a young man they met at the Shipshewana Show who asked great questions during the live recording. 67:35
• Don names Royce Marks of Wisconsin as their third junior pro staffer. 67:49

lesters-feet

• Terry announces they partnered with the Busy Beaver Amish publication for a full-page ad with a raffle-ticket tear-off. 31:55
• Terry announces the Lester’s Feet raffle tickets will be drawn on the July 4 episode. 32:56

mineral-site

• Tim Henrich asks whether to use Maximizer minerals at a stand site or in a bedding area to attract deer, and where deer use minerals most. 37:42

prayer-request

• Don asks listeners to lift Terry up in prayer and pray him through his upcoming back surgery. 2:03

property-management

• Terry says Kyle Heuerman of Team Radical will be working his Illinois property while he recovers from surgery. 3:22

real-world

• Terry announces Real World now has three junior pro staff members. 65:44
• Terry says Real World ran out of regular Gen-two beans but still has Northern and Enlist beans available. 69:03

royce-marks

• Don says Royce Marks attended the Whitetail Master Course with his dad Lloyd Marks, and Don later did a consultation on their property. 67:56

scent-control

• Terry recalls asking a live crowd in Ohio or Shipshewana who uses scent-elimination products and still gets winded. 64:30
• Don says he thinks scent-elimination products probably all work to some degree. 63:43
• Terry warns hunters against relying on scent-elimination gimmicks instead of building a sound foundation for when, how, and where to hunt. 64:35

soybeans

• Don says soybeans have the ability to utilize whatever space they’re given. 11:14
• Don says lightly planted soybeans with more space branch out and can produce plants with hundreds of pods. 11:32
• Terry compares spaced-out soybean plants to garden plants that stalk and leaf out with many more limbs and shoots when given room. 11:47

sponsorship-philosophy

• Don says they always use the best products they can find regardless of whether the company is paying them. 24:08

stand-access

• Don advises hunters to accept what their property gives them rather than trying to have a stand for every wind direction. 61:16
• Don says his neighbors let him cross their harvested ag fields from multiple directions, making it easy to play the wind on his farm. 61:36

surgery

• Terry says his upcoming back procedure is minor and he’ll be shut down from lifting and twisting for a month or two but can walk immediately. 2:13

taxidermy

• Don recommends taxidermist Eric Kibler as the guy to take a giant deer to, saying every mount from his shop is a masterpiece. 22:49

truck-deal

• Terry explains that Chris Yates’ Victory Chevrolet deal lets buyers trade in a diesel truck for a new one every year for a small fee. 29:16

youtube

• Terry apologizes on behalf of himself and Don for changes in how the show is being produced. 36:26
• Terry says they’re missing four or five YouTube episodes because of a change in how they’re producing the show. 36:42
• Terry says the missing YouTube episodes will be back up by the end of the week. 36:50

Listener questions

Question: Tim Henrich asks whether to use Maximizer minerals at a stand site or in a bedding area to attract deer, and where deer use minerals most. 37:42 — asked by Tim Henrich

• Answer: Don recommends placing mineral in easy-to-access spots such as field edges, so he can reach it and run cameras without pressuring the property. 38:46
• Answer: Terry says the ideal mineral site is a natural corridor, shelf, or pinch point that’s easy to reach without getting close to deer or intruding much. 41:25

Question: Brad asks whether he should cut or spray paths through timber cluttered with treetops, TSI debris, and multiflora rows for deer movement. 43:22

• Answer: Don says yes, but selectively — cut paths only to funnel deer past tree stands as they exit thick cover. 43:36

Terry recovered from a tractor-related knee injury from the previous July and prepared for a minor upcoming back procedure that would sideline him from lifting and twisting for a month or two, with friends and Kyle Heuerman of Team Radical helping work his Illinois property, including Patrick Simpson working plots on an old international tractor. Don recounted a creek flooding his corn plot after heavy rain, wiping out seed and fertilizer, and planned a quick replant while unsure how residual herbicide might affect a fall plot on the same ground. He also discussed soybean spacing and branching, and recommended the Intimidator herbicide and taxidermist Eric Kibler. The pair covered a Ford dealership trade-in deal through Chris Yates, tied to their Lester’s Feet raffle and an Amish publication partnership. Listener questions addressed mineral site placement and cutting selective paths through cluttered timber. They also introduced three junior pro staff members, including a freshman working on an EHD science project.

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