Don't get me wrong.. The farm is managed for cattle but that doesn't mean you can't do nice things for the wildlife too. They are not antagonistic goals really.If I had my way the rest of the farm would be planted down in stuff besides corn and beans and would have a lot more cover. Maybe next year this will happen but I will probably have to bang my head off a few brick walls before it happens. There are 4 places on the property that I would like to put in a system for game birds and another that I would like to manage for waterfowl. Takes money and we don't have unlimeted funds so we generally try to do things that work towards both parts of our goals. More feed for the cows and more feed for the animals. Millet works great as a cow feed and they shatter a lot of the seed onto the ground for gamebirds to chew on. This was a compromise on our part because there are things that would give the cows more feed but give the wildlife none. That's okay.

What we really want to to work on are about 20-40 acres of ground around some wooded areas that would be real good for improving deer and turkey habitat. We shall see how they work. Biggest problem there again is how to do this with available funds and benift both parts of the "business" (We don't sell hunting rights or anything like that. But I see it as my psyciatric business because it relieves a lot of my stress). the other thing we have planned, if we ever get on the rest of the farm, will be planting about 12 miles of windbreaks 4-5 trees thick. It will be nice but it will take a long, long time to get there. That is okay, my grandchildren can appreciate it in 40 years or so.

We looked at a place down South... Big place but don't know if it is going to happen... That place has...Potential to be something special.