Is the PA Game Commission telling the truth about PA hunters' approval of a Saturday opener to deer season...a policy move that changed 'decades old' hunting tradition in PA? What goes on behind the scenes of a state agency when politics trump biology?  How does this affect you, the license-buying hunters? Is it really acceptable to send PA sportsmen's/women's money to California when it was earmarked for CWD management in PA? Politicians are hated and Jason's guest today certainly takes his fair share of shots from a certain segment of the PA outdoor community.  Jason talks with PA State Rep. David Maloney about all of this and much more...Oh, and did Dave REALLY just say that the PGC is lying about the survey findings regarding the heated change to the traditional Monday-after-Thanksgiving opener? Yep, he sure did!

Pennsylvania Deer Wars with PA State Rep. David Maloney

Jason provides a detailed snapshot of what we've been talking about on the Innovators! platform since the September start.  Thinking about giving up on regenerative food plotting? Think again as you listen to one grower who has scaled what we typically do on less than 50 acres to over 7,000 acres of regenerative and organic corn and soybeans. Listen to one of Jason's favorite whitetail bow hunters explain his efficient but aggressive mature buck killing system. Jason covers the latest in trail cameras and talks about a type of trail camera that seems to "dry up" scrapes in big buck states across the midwest but not before the great Dr. Rick Haney talks in depth about the soil health test that bears his name.

All Star Innovators! Hunting bedding areas, trail cameras, testing Glyphosate in soil and urine and scaling regen UP!

https://glow.fm/drop-tine/ JOIN INNOVATORS NOW! glow.fm/drop-tine Join along as we introduce the Drop-Tine Innovators! Podcast, a NEW premium content, member-only podcast designed to be ad-free, on-demand & ONLY available to Drop-Tine Innovators!  Become a member by going to glow.fm/drop-tine and signing up in a couple simple steps!  Within 30 seconds you can hear our BONUS Innovators content as Jason sits down with MSU Deer Lab's Dr. Bronson Strickland and Luke Resop to cover the first update on the Regen Vs. Conventional Food Plotting Research. Jason provides a new email address ONLY for Innovators! members so that YOU can help steer the content of the new member-only podcast platform.  We have several episodes scheduled to post on the Innovators! platform so be sure to subscribe today!

NEW! Drop-Tine Innovators Podcast Announcement! Scaling the podcast UP!

Jason and David talk about the early season drought many are experiencing from a systems and functional soil health approach. What's the best timing for roller crimp terminating in a drought? Plants fix dirt! How to win during the next drought or flood through resilience. Cover crops and drought. Using the Soil Talker (ST-1) to test in-field microbial abundance. Using amino acid chelated foliar nutrition to increase root exudates and photoshynthetic efficiency. They discuss Revive DT, Drop-Tine's approach to restoring fertility in the soils through plants.

DROUGHT! A functional soil health perspective

Jason talks with Paul Brown of Brown's Ranch and Nourished by Nature near Bismarck, ND about a CO2 pipeline that threatens soil health and ecosystem function on some of America's most pristine private land.  Proposed by bureauctrats and big industry, could this serve as a proof of concept for a C02 pipeline near you?  Is the name of the game eminent domain while wasting tax payer dollars to support politicians and failed government policies?  Why are steaks from Brown's Ranch so damn good?

Brown's Ranch & Private Property Rights

Jason talks about reviving ancient grains for wildlife with organic farmer and entrepreneur Bob Quinn (Montana). Bob is considered the modern day pioneer of ancient and heritage grains; including his organically grown Kamut. The Drop-Tine Seed Co. introduces their Ancient Grains for Wildlife Blend as well as Revive DT, a NEW liquid foliar plant nutrition product: Absorbed better, used completely!

Ancient Grains for Wildlife

Jason starts the podcast with a big announcement for a new product and then talks with the globe trotting no-till cover cropper Steve Groff.  As always, Steve shares some incredible context on soil health and regenerative agriculture.  He discusses why better soil means better oil as he continues to grow and sell high quality CBD products produced on his regenerative Pennsylvania farm.  Visit Steve's www.cedarmeadow.farm to purchase his superior products.

Cover Crop & No-till Innovator: Steve Groff

87 year-old Glyphosate researcher, plant pathologist, retired U.S. Army Col. and Emeritus Professor (Purdue Univ)., Dr. Don Huber has been shot at, stabbed and beaten to a pulp during his storied investigative career merely because of his long-time involvement in research on the impacts of Glyphosate (RoundUp) on plant nutrition, disease and health.  Hits have been taken out on him by researchers and industry thugs who are in the tank (follow the $$$) with large multinational organizations and the makers of synthetic chemicals such as RoundUp.  Jason proposes a broad spectrum of topics surrounding the Glyphosate/Roundup discourse including the science-based research that links Glyphosate, as a broad spectrum mineral chelator and gut/soil disrupting antibioic, to Chronic Wasting Disease in white-tailed deer.

Glyphosate & Dr. Don Huber: EIGHT PLUS DECADES OF WISDOM

Jason and "guest host-client-friend" Joe Switzer talk with Dr. Rick Haney about soil testing and all things soil health. The guys share their stories about why lime becomes unnecessary as the plant-microbe interaction mediates the soil pH in and around the root rhizoshpere. Oh, and Jason talks about propolis spray and Moscow mules!

Regenerative Food Plots: Soil pH and why we don't lime anymore

Field Report: Regenerative Food Plotting in South Carolina

As state agencies target bans on commercial urine and attractants, Jason engages in conversation with one of the nations leading biochemists, Dr. Davin Henderson, on the fact that the real science lacks a single case where deer were infected with CWD by giving them urine. Although A recent Pennsylvania Game Commission vote on a urine ban died on the vine with a 4-4 tie, Commissioners promise to keep trying. We ask: Where's the science to support your claims? 

CWD and Urine Bans: Don't piss down my leg and tell me it's raining!

Jason talks in depth with Dr. David Montgomery about the relationship between soil health and food plot nutrient density. Listen as Jason and Dave entertain the underappreciated topic of food plot quantity vs. quality. Are we spending too much time worrying about what (and how much tonnage) we plant for deer while ignoring HOW we're growing our food plots? Soil health = nutrient density = healthy white-tailed deer.

What Your Food Plots Eat with Dr. David Montgomery

Jason talks with Dr. Bronson Strickland and Dr. Rick Haney about why his alma mater, Mississippi State University, should study the impact of of soil health & conservation agriculture on food plot forage nutrient density, soil organic matter, crop nutritional profile, vitamin/mineral content and phytochemical richness. Is this the beginning of something HUGE?

Regen Wildlife Ag: The Academic Journey Begins

Which non-profit conservation organizations make the grade and are worthy of your hard earned cash? Which organizations simply don't make the grade?  Learn how to make an easy assessment BEFORE you click "Donate NOW".

Non-Profits ARE For Profit!

CWD.  Jason talks with world-renowned CWD expert & wildlife veterinarian, Dr. Michael Miller about the early days of CWD in Colorado and Wyoming as part 1 of the Drop-Tine CWD Intensive Recordings BEGIN!

CWD: The Beginning (ostensibly) with Dr. Michael Miller

Ever wonder about the anatomy and physiology of good and bad shots? How long should you wait after all of the different types of hits and what determines whether you find your trophy at the end of a blood trail or you're forced to eat tag soup?

The Science of the Shot w/ Dr. Bumgardner

Jason and Dr. Jon Jenks discuss research that exposes the toxicity of neonicotinoid seed treatments to whitetails and other game species. 

Neonic Seed Treatments & White-tailed Deer Health

Neonicotinoid seed treatments can set back progress on regenerative properties with negative, cascading effects on beneficial insects.  Equally alarming, Neonics are proving detrimental to the health of our game species. This episode provides some background information for the episode to follow.

Neonic Seed Treatment Background

Following extreme interest in the first episode of Field Reports, Jason records a call with Pennsylvania food plotter Dan Very.  Dan's questions stem from content promoted on social media platforms about splitting food plots in half and preceeding fall plots with monoculture buckwheat.  Is this as good as it gets?

Field Reports w/ Dan Very-Pennsylvania

In this first episode of the new Field Reports recordings, Jason talks with Zach Weaver about his regenerative food plotting and soil health journey.

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