Habitat Podcast #400 – In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Mark Drury!
We discuss:
-Jared and Hutchy open episode 400 by thanking eight years of listeners since March 2018.
-Mark explains why EHD has cut his southern Iowa deer herd by sixty to seventy percent.
-Mark sold his big farm for scattered satellite farms as an insurance policy against EHD.
-Mark is restoring 150 acres of Iowa pasture to native prairie using nothing but spring fire.
-Mark mulches eastern red cedar to cut bedding pods and trails into overgrown glades.
-Mark says the top fall plot mistake is planting early, and aims 45 days before first frost.
-Mark blends triticale with radishes so a drought-stressed plot still shows green in October.
-Mark has quit working dirt, mowing and burning down before no-tilling with PH Outdoors drills.
-Mark’s new 78-acre farm was 95 percent cover and took until January 9th to give up a buck.
-Mark has reviewed over a million trail camera photos with another half million still to go.
And So Much More!
Chapters:
0:00 Cold open
1:04 Welcome to episode 400 — eight years of the Habitat Podcast
4:46 Mark Drury, back for the first time since 2019
5:02 What’s changed: EHD and five years of drought
6:53 Why the midges are almost impossible to fight
7:50 Waging war on eastern red cedar
8:58 Restoring 150 acres of prairie with fire alone
12:16 The biggest fall food plot mistake
14:47 Why Drury Outdoors quit working dirt
16:27 Kill plot size and placement
17:21 Hunting a bottom field without getting winded
19:03 Smoke bombs, ozone and blind scent control
20:12 Clearing deer off a plot at last light
22:50 Selling the big farm for scattered satellites
24:40 Neighbors, and losing deer across the line
26:15 How Mark handles trespassers
29:31 Miscanthus screens
31:16 Native prairie over switchgrass monoculture
34:54 Find a better spot, or make your spot better
37:40 A million trail camera photos
42:13 Setting up a brand new 78-acre farm
45:23 Time is your greatest currency
47:15 Taylor’s 29-pounder on a spring burn
48:41 Rapid fire, and what’s next for DeerCast
50:59 Smoked-then-sous-vide wild turkey
53:44 Favorite tree
55:05 Thanks to the partners and the listeners
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