Land Management

REAP WHAT YOU SOW.

Watch and read along as some of the world’s most knowledgeable and experienced hunting land managers show you proven strategies for turning your property into a hunting paradise. Get expert tips on everything from seasonal food plot placement and plant species selection to the state-of-the-art equipment that helps you to tend it.

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Getting The Most Out Of Your Clover Food Plots

If you decide to plant a perennial like Non-Typical Clover just follow these words of advice to get the most out of your food plot.

Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, BioLogic

Food Plot Preparation: Plan Ahead for Success

Late July and August can be a very busy month for wildlife management chores. Dove season is right around the corner as well as archery season for deer. Formulating a plan this time of year on what, when, and where you are going to plant cool season plots can save time and frustration. Waiting until the very last minute and scrambling to find seed, equipment or fertilizer can be a major headache.

Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Planting Waterfowl Seed Mix

BioLogics Guide’s Choice is possibly the most advanced waterfowl planting ever. This proven waterfowl seed mix includes Japanese Millet and Sorghum. With a little know-how you can be on your way to a more successful duck hunting experience.

Small Game, Waterfowl, Land Management, Video, BioLogic

Preparing New Property for Big Bucks

More hunters are realizing that you can produce high-quality bucks on small acreages like this new 120 acres I’ve just purchased. Another advantage to this property is that it’s very thick and overgrown without a very good tillage value. So this property is something that most people looking for land won’t buy. However, this past spring, we took three gobblers off the new land.

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, BioLogic

Top 3 Plants for Attracting Whitetails

Perennials such as red and white clovers, chicory and alfalfa are known for providing nutrition for much of the year, and they do. However, they are also excellent attraction for the first part of the hunting season. Make sure to manage your perennials – a mowed and fertilized perennial plot is much more attractive than one that has not been.

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Brett Berry Loves to Hunt Turkeys

When I was in college, we learned everything we could about wildlife management in two years. One of our assignments was to go out into the woods every morning and count the number of turkeys we heard gobbling. The first morning I went out and heard my first wild turkey gobble; I was hooked. I told my partner that I wanted to hunt those birds. We were so busy with our classes, I didn’t get

Big Game, Turkey, Land Management

7 Tips to Keep Weeds Under Control

Spray when grasses or broadleaf weeds are young and thriving. If you wait to spray when they are tall and mature, the results will often be less than desirable. If weeds are already tall and maturing, mow first and return 7-10 days later to spray the new re-growth.

Land Management, How-To, BioLogic

Establishing Spring Food Plots

Whitetails love the fresh growth that the woods and thickets explode with during that first few weeks of green up. There is no other time of year when there is such an overwhelming amount of fresh browse from such a variety of plants.

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, How-To, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Identify Open Places for Warm Weather Early Spring Gobblers

If our section of Alabama has an early spring, and the weather warms up before the opening day of turkey season, then I’ll want to have identified where all of my strut zones are. You’re more than likely to find your early spring gobblers in green fields, clear cuts, old logging ramps, pastures or any other kinds of large openings.

Big Game, Turkey, Land Management

Controlling Weeds with 6 Easy Steps

A weed-free food plot tucked into the woods somewhere is a beautiful sight. So how do you keep those pesky weeds out of your favorite spot? BioLogic’s new Weed Reaper Grass Control is designed to knock out all those unwanted annual and perennial grasses that are so common in food plots.

Land Management, How-To, BioLogic

5 Things Wild Turkeys Need

Why are the gobblers always on your neighbor’s property and not yours? The answer to that could be a number of reasons. You must look at what a turkey needs and on the other hand, things a turkey doesn’t like, the solution may be easier than you think. Just like all wild critters, they need food, water, cover and space. What don’t they like? Pressure!

Big Game, Turkey, Land Management

Techniques to Improve Mast Production

Whether it’s persimmon, cherry, crabapple, white or red oaks, or you’re lucky enough to have chestnuts, it’s amazing the yield of wildlife food you can coax out of your habitat. Without ever planting a food plot, and by spending very little, you can entice your trees into producing tons of food for your wildlife simply with a chainsaw, pruner and a little fertilizer.

Land Management, How-To, BioLogic

BioLogic’s Non-typical Clover Is Very Effective

Mossy Oak BioLogic has one wildlife planting that attracts turkeys as well as deer, and it’s relatively new for BioLogic – Non-Typical Clover. This new blend of clover has been found suitable for food plot plantings from New York to Georgia and from east Texas north. Non-Typical Clover is late to flower, so you'll get 6-8 more weeks of good, quality deer and turkey forage before the clover begins to flower.

Big Game, Deer, Turkey, Land Management, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Wildflowers: 6 Improvements to Your Hunting Property

Wildflowers are the in-thing for land and wildlife management, and for good reason. Here are six reasons you should incorporate them onto your own slice of heaven or backyard.

Land Management, How-To

Getting Private Land to Waterfowl Hunt

I'm often asked, “How do you get permission to hunt those big agricultural fields in Missouri?” The answer is really simple. I own an excavation company. So, I work with landowners every day. I understand the problems that they have with waterfowl hunters, and I've learned how to solve the problems that cause landowners not to let watermen hunt on their properties.

Small Game, Waterfowl, Land Management