Welcome to a special edition of "Whitetail Rendezvous," and we're traveling up to Loup City, Nebraska. Now, I've got a couple friends up there that own Rackology. If you don't know what Rackology is, well, if it's a double helix, it's a double helix chromosome...is that true, Jason? https://www.rackology.org/ I'm talking to Jason Obermiller and Eric Fitzgerald. Eric's a agronomist, been in the business a long time, and then Jason teaches school, and they got together a few years back and created some products, and now their business is growing. And I've asked them to be part of the "Whitetail Rendezvous" Spring Series, talking about land management. "Whitetail Rendezvous" Spring Series, talking about land management. Well, appreciate you having us on here, Bruce. It's great to visit with you again and see a familiar face, again, here. We...I guess, when it comes to land management, I think that a lot of people don't understand how important it is, especially if you own or lease, or even get the rights to hunt a piece of property, and how important land management is to your success if you're hunting. And it doesn't matter if it's whitetail deer, pheasants, turkeys, or if you just want to have an abundance of wildlife out there, land management is crucial. This day and age we're seeing a lot more land being developed, especially in our neck of the woods, and has taken some of the habitat out. And so, that leaves less areas for wildlife to go and to use as their home range, and so something as simple as a food plot, or setting up, you know, a feeding station in the off-season could really increase your odds of harvesting the buck that you want to harvest, or just going out with your family and seeing wildlife, land management is crucial, and it could be something simple. And that's what we're trying to educate at Rackology, is how simple something could be, do it yourself, and, I guess, produce the results that you're looking for. And that's what we're trying to educate at Rackology, is how simple something could be, do it yourself, and, I guess, produce the results that you're looking for. Jason: Yeah. And I know, like, in my classroom I get...you know, growing up here in a rural area, I got a whole bunch of kids that are farm kids, and, you know, we've got a lot of type [SP] places in this area where they plant right up to the fence rows, and you get asked all the time, "How come we don't see any pheasants? You know, where's the wildlife?" And, you know, a big thing that I point out, and I do this carefully, of course, is, you know, when you plant up to the fence rows, and it's all a monoculture, like corn, once the season is over and it's been combined, and it's gone, there's really no habitat left for those deer or anything to really hide in. Not only that, if you have a little strip of grass along the fence, what occurs is called the edge effect. So if you do have any birds or game that's using that grass for cover, coyotes and predators, you know, they've got a very narrow area to hide in, and so it prevents them from, you know, having any type of hiding, any type of escape. And so, you know, when we get into land management, talking in one of my Wildlife classes, we discuss this, "How can we manage our land for wildlife, but, at the same time, you know, accommodate what brings a lot of money into this community, that's agriculture?" And they can both work very well together, so long as both sides are willing, you know, to do a little give-and-take. And there's people that, you know, that land management doesn't necessarily mean shooting 160 or 180-inch deer. Receive a $50 goHUNT Gear Shop Gift Card by using code WR when joining Insider http://bit.ly/2s8dX5k Here's a quick demo about goHUNT.com/insider https://youtu.be/YFNMzEUtcys Whitetail Rendezvous podcast receives compensation each time a new member joins Insider via our link
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