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Building Healthy Soil
Building Healthy Soil Many food plotters focus on fall planted food plots. While these plots have their place for seeing deer and helping...

John O'Brion
Dec 6, 20203 min read
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Clovers, clovers, wonderful clovers
On a regular basis I see people recommend clovers as a food plot recommendation. The word clover is a very vague and general term. There...

John O'Brion
Oct 27, 20203 min read
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The ate what?
What do deer prefer to eat? This question gets asked on social media on occasion and asked of me several times throughout the year. If...

John O'Brion
Oct 2, 20202 min read
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Dialing it in
How fast does your bow shoot? What brand of bow do you have? Is it an older model or a new and improved model? When you shoot your bow,...

John O'Brion
Sep 21, 20202 min read
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What are you really buying?
Every so often I get someone who brings up the price of our freight online. We charge .70 per lb for freight as we ship UPS and USPS. The...

John O'Brion
Aug 30, 20202 min read
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Food Plot Genetics vs Management
A wise man I call “Dad” Once put his hand on my shoulder and said, “A great manager can take below average and make it better but a poor...

John O'Brion
Aug 13, 20203 min read
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Tag vs Final Stand
i have received emails this week on this topic. Every email I get from someone requesting a custom blend contains an improper seeding...

John O'Brion
Aug 8, 20201 min read
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Brassicas, Brassicas, Brassicas
Brassicas are a staple in many fall food plots but they are miss understood by most individuals and wildlife companies. Brassicas range...

John O'Brion
Jul 25, 20202 min read
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10 steps to a successful food plot
In today's world, many first-time food plotters rely on sites like this and social media for their "education." Here are my 10 steps to...

John O'Brion
Jun 13, 20202 min read
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Plant for the Future
Plant for the Future No matter if you own 20 acres or 1000, there should be strategy with your forages that you provide your deer. Some...

John O'Brion
Jun 3, 20202 min read
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Organic Food Plotting
We are in an era where more weeds are becoming resistant to glyphosate and other herbicides. There are a few reasons for this and one of...
John O'Briion
Apr 30, 20202 min read
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The Next Bite
One of my books was titled the next bite. Here are some tidbits from it to consider. Deer are selective browsers. They eat what they eat...

John O'Brion
Apr 18, 20203 min read
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Clover for food plots
Clover....what is clover? When people talk clover, there are many different types of clovers that yield anywhere from 1.5 tons- 8 tons of...

John O'Brion
Apr 5, 20202 min read
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On a budget, a couple things to consider.
With the crazy times we are going through, many of you might be suffering hardships. A great way to deal with the great unknowns of the...

John O'Brion
Mar 21, 20203 min read
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The Decline of Forage Quality
Very few people are aware that today’s forages grown on our lands are not the same quality as those grown 20 or 30 years ago. When I...

John O'Brion
Feb 27, 20203 min read
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Key to Growing Effective Forages
Weather. Mother nature can come into play. Do we know if it will be hot or cold? Are we going to have a wet season or dry? Weather always...
Key to Growing Effective Forages
Feb 15, 20202 min read
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Integrated Weed Management
Food plotters rely on glyphosate and herbicides because it's easy. Very few think about how they affect the soil. Many weeds are becoming...

John O'Brion
Feb 2, 20202 min read
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Soil pH, More to the story
Low soil pH is NOT the only factor that affects growth. Here is a picture from a few years back that is about 5' tall of brassica grown...

John O'Brion
Jan 27, 20201 min read
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The Perfect Forage
The Perfect Forage If the deer eat me low to the ground, I will regrow swiftly. If I am near them, deer will prefer to eat me over most...
John O'Brion
Jan 3, 20201 min read
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If Roundup Was Banned...
If Roundup was banned…, People would need to start reading seed tags. Stop and think about this for a minute. We have become a lazy...

John O'Brion
Dec 26, 20193 min read
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