Ventures of the Land

What should you focus on for feeding your deer good quality food? In this episode Dr. Mark Turner and I attempt to unravel this concept through discussing his discertation project analyzing what the most limiting factor across the landscape is within a whitetails diet.

In this episode I get talk with Mat Williams again. Mat is one of the more interesting people I have met through the podcast. When ever I talk with him he always has some cool story to tell me or information I haven't heard before. Mat's claim to fame is that he studies the relationship between Mushrooms and fungi. He has been studying this for the past ten to twelve years and has reached some ver...

Summer time food and whether or not you need it on your property is one of the more interesting conversations I think you can have within the whitetail hunting community. Summer food such as food plots, Ag fields, cattle pasture that's made up of clover and alfalfa that is being properly grazed can all be examples of this. If you want to here the thoughts that I apply for my habitat here it is...

In this episode I talk with some of the crew from Ideal Land Management, including Brian Kozlowski the founder and owner, Jeff their chief operator and Bo who is their newest add on. We talk about general management concepts to keep in mind for going into the spring.

This is not a comprehensive guide to managed grazing but it is an intro for how it can be beneficial for wildlife. Whether you are trying to build a property for whitetail hunting, song birds and pollinators, or any other reason involving wildlife chances are Grazing can be an extremely helpful tool to include in your plan.

In this episode of the podcast I talk with Mary C Anderson. Mary and I talk about many different mindsets needed for good land management, as well as shifting our agricultural practices.

In this episode I have a late night talk with my father Bob Atwell about religion, economics, conservation, community and how they all relate. I also provide a reason and purpose for why I am doing this podcast and why I think it is important.

Tom Kertshcer is a journalist for the Wisconsin Watch. He has done a couple stories on the Ai Data centers in Wisconsin including one on stranded assets and one on Data center companies signing NDA's with local government.

Austin has spent most of his life figuring out what lead to the destruction of rural Iowa, the consolidation of farms and our food system as a whole. In this episode my father Bob Atwell and I discuss this matter with Austin. We focus heavy on what is happening in rural Wisconsin and how to keep it from becoming as bad as Iowa.

Joe Tomandil started an apprenticeship program for dairy grazing that mimics that of the trades. It attempts to solve two problems within agriculture. It gives people who are looking to get into agriculture a way to learn and people who looking for a successor but have none to find one. Joe and I talked about what the goals and process with this program is and his thoughts on how dairy grazing can...

The 765 powerline project is something people in Vernon and Crawford county Wisconsin have a lot of questions about and none of them seem to be being answered. In this episode I talk again with Travis Klinkner and Carl Volden about this powerline project.

In this episode I talk with Matt Rinella from the Hunt Quietly podcast. Matt and I talked about the current state of the hunting entertainment industry predominately some of effects of hunting influencers and the companies that sponsor them.

In this episode I discuss the possible project that would put massive powerlines through the heart of the driftless area of Wisconsin. I talk about this with a local organic dairy farmer Travis Kilnker.

In this episode I talk with Will Harris from White Oak Pastures. We discus a lot about the regenerative agriculture movement and Will's own motivations for the way he farms.

In this episode I talk with Dr. Patrick Keyser on grazing native warm season pasture. Dr. Patrick is highly nonweldable in pretty much all things native warm season grasses and has studied them for a very long time.

In this episode I talk with Dr. Randy Jackson about the Grassland 2.0 project. The project focuses and aims to facilitate an agricultural system based on perennial grasslands.

In this episode I talk with Mat Williams about the relationship between deer and fungi. He studies this topic and has started his own mushroom food plot company called MycoHabitat.

In this episode I discuss the basics of prairie with Chris Helzer. Chris is known as the prairie ecologist largely as a result of his blog. His blog focuses on discussing all things prairie.

In this episode I talk with Thomas Mlsna founder and owner of The Untamed Ambition. We talk about what sustainable and holistic management looks like in the world of whitetail land management. We discuss some of the common beliefs in the industry that can be misleading and some way to improve upon those.

In this episode I discus water quality and the importance of rural communities with Buzz Sorgie. Buzz is a retired Wisconsin DNR limnologist. Buzz worked on water quality for the majority of his career and towards the end focused on the idea of building back rural communities and how that can greatly effect the quality of our natural resources.

In this episode I discuss with Albert from Vitalize seed his past in food plotting and what got him into the Idea of a soil building food plot/cover crop company.

In this episode I talk a bit about one thing people need to understand about conservation.

In this episode I delve into the world of prairie with Nicholas Lirio and Kent Boucher from The Prairie Farm Podcast and Hoksey Native Seed. These two dudes were a blast to talk with and I hope you guys in joy the episode.

In this episode I have a great discussion with Mary C Anderson with the Wisconsin DNR about conservation grazing. Conservation grazing focuses on the needs of the land and then the needs of the farmer second. It is a wonderful practice and I hope you guys get to learn a lot from this episode.

In this episode I talk with Brian Kozlowski from Ideal Land management. We discuss prairie planting techniques as well as the type of work Ideal Land Management does.