I get calls every week by people asking me for help to grow large deer. Some are a result of seeing an article where a client put over 60 inches of antler in one year. I know many people are looking for a magic bullet or simple answer to this. The answers always will be as long as one has time to digest. You see, I come from a much different world and career path. My answers date back to the early 90’s and the start of my research career. The first area I always cover with pe

A number of years ago, I started hosting wildlife food plot seminars. One year I hosted about 30 seminars from smaller to the larger deer show circuit. During these early years, I always asked people in the audience what was the most important component of food plots. Always the answer was soil pH. This is still the most common belief as we see on the many online forums. After seeing the hands go up and hearing the standard answer, I shared a real-life story. Here is the stor