Smoke and mirrors

Since this is private and away from the public eye, here is my listing of the biggest crap sold in the wildlife industry.

Trophy Rock. Yes, i do like it better than plain salt but you can buy the same trace mineral block for $10 per 44 lb bag made by the same company but without the name trophy rock. Why on earth would anyone pay $16 per 22 lbs of trophy rock when you can pay $10 per 44 lbs for the same product?

Buck Forage Oats. It's the variety called BOB. You can buy BOB oats for about 1/2 the cost if you like Bob Oats. But so many people want to plant oats and do you know it's 8-10% lower in protein and only 25% as much calcium as brassicas and other clovers? Yep, the deer eat it but there are 20 other better forages for nutrition. You also can use goliath forage oats, harrisons, forage plus and other oats for 1/2 the price, if you want oats.

Deer Minerals. Mine is the only deer mineral on the market that meets 100% of a deers daily requirements for all the trace minerals and vitamins. It also blows my mind how it only costs $1.75 per 25 lb bags to meet 100% of a deer's requirements for vitamins and trace minerals yet NO 1 puts much nutrition into their minerals. Why would you only want 10-50% of a deer's daily requirements when it's so cheap to do that?

Plot Start. You will change your pH for a few days but then your back to where you started. You still need to use ag lime or pellet lime. Find one certified crop advisor who doesn't laugh at that product and it will be the first i ever encountered. That is totally smoke and mirrors and against science and reality.

Egyptian Wheat. Yes, some people actually used it last year but many companies sold sorghum and claimed it was EW. How do i know? EW was next ti impossible to find because of the poor previous seed year and when i opened the bag of the product i was sold as EW, it was GW2120 and i know GW2120 why? cause i had it in my sorghum experimental plot the year before and it's sorghum sudangrass not tall forage sorghum. EW grows tall and lodges less but there are other options. EW has become a generic term for screening and it's very missunderstood.

Forage soybeans. Most do not know the difference between indeterminate growth soybeans and determinate growth beans. So many people compare THEIR BEANS to indeterminate and they are totally different products. Do you only want forage or do you want pods? In the northern reaches, why would we want to plant long season beans that wont throw pods? If you want to overseed brassicas, you won't be able to do that if you use forage soybeans.

Most attractants. Most companies slap a fancy bag together and throw crap in that bag that smells nice to the HUMAN NOSE. Deer are creatures of habit, They also will be curious short term of new smells but long term, most animals need more earthy smells that also aren't as volatile. Most companies in the wildlife industry do not understand the science of attractants. It's a huge profit markup for these companies.