EPISODE 400 SPECIAL! The First 3 Things Mark Drury Does On A New Farm

Habitat Podcast #400 - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Mark Drury!

We discuss:

-Jared and Hutchy open episode 400 by thanking eight years of listeners since March 2018.

-Mark explains why EHD has cut his southern Iowa deer herd by sixty to seventy percent.

-Mark sold his big farm for scattered satellite farms as an insurance policy against EHD.

-Mark is restoring 150 acres of Iowa pasture to native prairie using nothing but spring fire.

-Mark mulches eastern red cedar to cut bedding pods and trails into overgrown glades.

-Mark says the top fall plot mistake is planting early, and aims 45 days before first frost.

-Mark blends triticale with radishes so a drought-stressed plot still shows green in October.

-Mark has quit working dirt, mowing and burning down before no-tilling with PH Outdoors drills.

-Mark's new 78-acre farm was 95 percent cover and took until January 9th to give up a buck.

-Mark has reviewed over a million trail camera photos with another half million still to go.