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Good Years Can Be Bad For Deer Managers

There are many factors that influence white-tailed deer growth. Hunters and managers are well aware that food quality and quantity strongly influence many aspects of herd health. Each year, clubs, landowners and managers spend consider time and monetary resources creating and maintain deer food sources, such as food plots or native vegetation management techniques that produce more browse. Often, these efforts are geared towards providing the nutritional resources deer need to express more of their potential. However, Mother Nature holds a major and unfortunately uncontrollable role in the success of these projects. (Read More)

Plugging The Lowest Hole In The Bucket

We spend considerable time and resources finding and trying to plug the lowest holes in several different buckets. No, we are not tending a whiskey still. We manage deer herds. And the holes we are plugging are not to keep corn from spilling out a feed bucket. "Plugging holes" is a scientific principle that a European scientist published several years ago. Of course he phrased it much fancier, but originally being hillbillies from Missouri and Tennessee, we felt the "hole in the bucket" illustration made more sense. The European scientist's name was Liebig, and his principle is now known as Liebig's Law of the Minimum. (Read More)


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			Good Years Can Be Bad For Deer Managers There are many factors that influence white-tailed deer growth. Hunters and managers are well aware that food quality and quantity strongly influence many aspects of herd health. Each year, clubs, landowners and managers spend consider time and monetary resources creating and maintain deer food sources, such as food plots or native vegetation management techniques that produce more browse. Often, these efforts are geared towards providing the nutritional resources deer need to express more of their potential. However, Mother Nature holds a major and unfortunately uncontrollable role in the success of these projects. (Read More) Plugging The Lowest Hole In The Bucket We spend considerable time and resources finding and trying to plug the lowest holes in several different buckets. No, we are not tending a whiskey still. We manage deer herds. And the holes we are plugging are not to keep corn from spilling out a feed bucket. "Plugging holes" is a scientific principle that a European scientist published several years ago. Of course he phrased it much fancier, but originally being hillbillies from Missouri and Tennessee, we felt the "hole in the bucket" illustration made more sense. The European scientist's name was Liebig, and his principle is now known as Liebig's Law of the Minimum. (Read More)

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