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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Get your newly planted seedlings through the heat

Planting seedlings and raising them to become trees can be a very rewarding experience. Seasoned tree planters will tell you getting them through the heat and drought of their first summer is the biggest obstacle. Following are some tips for first summer success.

Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

How Deep Should My Food Plot Seed be Planted?

One of the most common mistakes when planting food plots is improper soil coverage, whether it be too deep or too shallow. So the question “how deep should I plant the seed?” is a question with several variables.

Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

5 Reasons to Step Up Your “Feed Game”

Deer that enter the spring in top physical shape, rather than having to repair and play catch up, have their best chance of reaching their genetic potential. Doe will have healthier fawns and bucks can have a head start on that next set of antlers when they have a steady nutritional late season/early spring food source.

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Red Oak Hybrids: The “Next Big Thing” for Wildlife

According to most wildlife biologists, red oaks need to be planted at a higher frequency than their cousins the white oaks. So why not take it a step further and plant superior hybrid red oaks? Red hybrids occur naturally, but are difficult to find due to their rarity. Because they are crosses between two species of red oak, red oak hybrids often exhibit traits making them more desirable to wildlife- and the wildlifers who plant

Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Trap and Remove Nest Predators and Use Controlled Burns to Increase Turkey Populations

One of the most effective management tools for increasing turkey populations is the trapping and removal of nest predators. Trapping skunks, armadillos, raccoons, possums and coyotes is a very-important tool of wild-turkey management. These nest predators can have a really-big effect on how many turkey poults survive the spring nesting season. So, we highly recommend late winter/early spring trapping specifically for nest predators just prior to when hens begin to nest.

Big Game, Turkey, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak, BioLogic

Learn about Why to Plant BioLogic’s Clover Plus for Turkeys

Clover Plus uses five different varieties of red and white clover, as well as two varieties of chicory. We use multiple varieties of clovers in Mossy Oak BioLogic Clover Plus for several reasons. Different types of clover mature at various times of the year. Also, some clovers grow better in certain types of soils than other clovers. So, by planting Clover Plus, we can help ensure that our hunters have good success with our clover

Deer, Turkey, Land Management, How-To, BioLogic

4 Tips for Improving Native Food Sources

What if you own property where the slope is too steep to plant food plots? What if you simply can’t afford the tools to plant acres of plots or maybe you simply don’t have the time to keep them in good condition? Various scenarios make it impossible to plant food plots, but there are a number of things we can do to enhance a property’s natural ability to produce more food.

Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Plant Mossy Oak BioLogic Non-Typical Clover and Clover Plus for Turkeys and Deer

Mossy Oak BioLogic has a developed a new clover product called Non Typical clover that was heavily researched and is highly preferred by wildlife. Mossy Oak’s long time clover blend, Clover Plus, also has chicory in it. Chicory is a great companion crop with clover, it thrives in hot and dry conditions. Non-Typical Clover is a single variety of clover, and does great in bottomland soils as well as ridge tops with good soils.

Deer, Turkey, Land Management, How-To, BioLogic

GameKeepers’ Greatest Tool for Weed Control

Weeds rob your plot of essential nutrients, water, and root space. Given time and opportunity, weeds will quickly mature, produce seed, and overtake a well intended food plot. Weed Reaper herbicide is one of the greatest tools a GameKeeper can utilize to keep weeds under control and get the most out of your plantings.

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

More Food and Cover the Easy Way

Winter is the perfect time to add extra browse to your property by hinge-cutting (also known as half-cutting) select trees, or simply felling trees you need to take down. Browse consists of the leaves, buds, stems and twigs of woody deciduous trees and shrubs, but they may also choose conifers such as cedar or white pine. It’s very intriguing because even if they have ample quality foods available, for some reason they still need this

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

All Deer Hunters Need to Read This

Today’s whitetail managers know what an important role food plots play in the drive towards a healthy herd and bucks with bigger antlers. Food plots can transform deer management, even on small tracts, and make your hunting dreams come true, but fewer understand why. What’s the big difference between food plots and their native vegetation? Or, why couldn’t supplemental feeding have the same impact?

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

How to Set Up Your Property to Take Nonresident Bucks

We are absolutely trail camera crazy. My mother says that I have a trail camera or a tree stand on every tree on the farm, and we have pictures of bucks for several consecutive years. That’s how we know that these three properties we hunt in Missouri are travel corridors, and bucks aren’t setting up residence on these three properties.

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, How-To, Mossy Oak

Increasing the Size of Your Food Plots Every Year

Because does are having fawns every year, and your food plots are pulling deer off other properties, you need to grow more food for the additional deer coming to your lands to eat. The other factor you have to consider is that if the deer you're pulling off other properties find food and sanctuary on your land, then they have no reason to leave after they find the food and sanctuary.

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

The Best Deer Management Is...

Any time we have land we’re planning to hunt, first, we survey the property and determine which portion of the property should be a sanctuary. After we have our sanctuary set-up, we plant green fields and/or crop fields where we can take bucks going into or out of the sanctuary. Sanctuary is the most-important factor in holding older-age-class deer.

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

Is Rocky Soil Holding Back Your Food Plot Success?

A common problem many guys have to work around in their food plots and wildlife openings is rocks. Having to cultivate soil that is heavily littered with rocks can cause multiple problems when it comes to managing a food plot. Besides it being outright difficult to create a good seed bed in rocky soil, the rocks can be really hard on equipment causing pre-mature wear and break downs.

Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers