The deer research program at Mississippi State University began with the arrival of Dr. Dave Guynn and Dr. Harry Jacobson in the mid-1970s. The synergism between these two young research biologists spawned many unique projects that generated national attention. Guynn left for other employment, and Dr. Jacobson expanded the breadth of deer research projects over a storied 20-year fulltime career, followed by continued interaction as Professor Emeritus.
Collectively, and working with numerous graduate students, cooperating agencies, foundations, and landowners, our current faculty have established the Deer Ecology and Management Lab at Mississippi State University as one of the premier deer management research units in the United States.
lost my big mature mast producing white oaks in a hurricane.. mostly only have water and willow oak now. I am thinning to select for more desirable species so brushing up on ID
Could you list a printable analysis of what you believe a deer needs for maximum nutrition and talk about fighting the parasites the deer are carrying? Thanks for all your work and making it available to us deer lovers.
I good way to show the daytime and nighttime movement would be to show the same buck movement video while darkening and lightening the map to simulate day and night. Great youtube channel and podcast, Thanks!
I think it’s mostly genetics. Kudzu is one of the best deer plants on the planet. It’s not even close to one of the worst weeds either. Japanese stilt grass is 10x worse but kudzu is treated like it’s cancer.
Great episode, thank you for sharing your knowledge Bronson and Marcus. I've also found great deer foraging on resprouts on maples that I cut in winter. Might you get the same benefits and a longer survival of the mineral stumps if cut during winter? It seems like it would stress the tree less and encourage an equal if not more vigorous re-sprouting response.
In addition to showing average, why don’t you emphasize median which statistically could be more important than average to help weed out the extreme events that can help increase or lower averages?
Gentle suggestion for your consideration. Bronson please scale back the teasing on what you refer to as Steve rambling, it’s coming across as a bit unprofessional. I have valued his contributions to all the discussions, if you have an issue maybe take it up offline.
Seems like there should be a deer density factor included. Pounds of forage per acre per some density of deer. There has to be some point of diminishing returns above a certain amount of forage. If they are not eating the clover and beans to the ground, and they are capable of eating more, what is stopping them from eating more??
Agriculture is a correlation not causation. The north typically has better nutrients in the soil due to glacial till from the ice age. River bottoms in the south also has good soil from the soil deposited from erosion from the north. Land use is a product of the nutrients in the soil. Over hundreds of years, high nutrient soil has been converted to ag and low nutrient soil has been left alone to grow native plants or converted to pine plantations.
In a 1975 book entitled Whitetail Deer author Stadtfeld is deer in the UP Michigan needed to be taller to reach higher in the canopy during the winter deep snow covering available ground cover browse to survive. You southerners don't know anything about snow! Hahaha!
I heard the point not to shoot the best 3.5 year old bucks, along with that not to shoot the largest does as per a point made of larger does correlates with larger antlers in this video.
I don’t want to be anywhere near an ag field, the farmers in NW FL get unlimited depredation deer tags. All the deer I have on my property will visit an ag field eventually , so when the farmers can kill deer 24/7, there is no way I’m getting a buck to 4&1/2.
Did you analyze or do you have any data on genetics being the largest effect on antler size? I'm in the upper Midwest with lots of ag and very good early successional growth. It seems like genetics are the overwhelming reason for a buck's antler size. We have mature bucks with 125-130" and mature bucks with 160"+. They are eating the same thing.
I used cotton and pellets and it’s been 3 years and my deer have change completely from 120 to 160 I’m very happy now my 3 year old are 120 glad I waited and I don’t think I will stop
The research clearly shows that if nutrition is limited, boosting diet quality (whether it be from habitat management, addition of food plots, or supplemental feeding) will result in larger bodies and larger antlers.
That's about as good of a pH as you can expect. You should have no limitations (relative to pH) with anything you plant. You to our website and download the food plot publication.
For this research we did not. We did this entirely by examining their locations and classifying them as bedding if we got 4 consecutive locations in the same spot. But in previous research we did go to bed sites and measured vegetation.
I wonder about info when a statement is thrown out there with no background info or references stated. This video didn't really help and only cause more questions... Grade C-
This was meant to be a very simple video to reach a broad audience. I believe we referenced the advice provided by the CDC and their recommendation of avoiding the consumption of eating CWD positive venison.
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Gentlemen and scholars. I always enjoy y'all's educational videos. Im 52 years old and been hunting all my life but y'all always teach me something new. I wish y'all all the happiness and success that life can bring. God bless.
It would depend on the type of clover. If it's a white clover, you should see it rebound after some summer dormancy. If it was an annual clover, like crimson, it may come back from seed.
My food plots are in Weyerhaeuser leases, so there are a lot of pines. My clover fields die every year in the Mississippi droughts. I plant in the logging staging fields so every 10-15 years they get wiped out and I have to start over. The soil is destroyed in my plots from the scraping and leveling they do, plus leaving tons of bark and chips. It takes a lot of inputs to get it back. In the first years, would you suggest Crimson before I go back to Ladino? I’ve also use Marco Polo is a lot of success. Persian gets crowded out easily but the deer do love that stuff. My plots are in Calhoun County and Webster county.
