A Family That Hunts Together: Youth Season 2014
By Bill Ziercher For millennium families and extended families (or clans, so to speak), “The Hunt” is something that is celebrated . . . the anticipation, the actual hunt and the stories that can be told and re-told for many years. The Ziercher family farm in northern Missouri practices include timber stand improvement (TSI), native […]
“Renovating” Land
by: Michael Wardlaw Pick your show on HGTV and you’ll quickly see there is strong market for buying an old home and rehabbing it. Buyers find a location they love and turn the old home into the home of their dreams. Sure, it takes effort and time, but the end result is often a complete […]
Buying Your Dream Property
I was 21 years old when I purchased my first farm. It was in 1979 and it was similar economic conditions to now. High grain prices had pushed land to a new all time high and I had to pay a ridiculous $700 per acre for this 80 acres of dream property that I could […]
Developing a SUCCESSFUL New Food Plot
Many people think that you can simply pick out a spot for a food plot, work the ground up, throw down some seed and they will have a picture perfect plot like they saw on T.V. or in a magazine. While sometimes you get lucky with this method, more times than not you’re left with […]
The Wait Is Almost Over Missouri
By now, if you’re like us, you can hardly stand it. The temperatures are slowly creeping upward and the forest is coming alive with spring critters scampering about. It can only mean one thing… Turkey Season! In just a few short days the wait will be over for Missourians as the chase for the majestic […]