Busy-busy-busy! Fall in the southern plains is the best and most productive time to be busy in preparation for the cool-season, which is our strongest growing season in the south. Whether you apply conventional agriculture methods or forward regenerative practices, getting some land care and habitat enhancement boxes checked will be to your advantage. Personally I like as much diversity in my food plot and pasture system as possible. Each year I plan strategic additions to a pragmatic end for soil structure health, bison-forage and wildlife benefit. It’s always an experiment and always beneficial to my system, which includes the economics of it.
In my travels, I encounter occasional fear of failing when it comes to land care because of the diversity in perspectives and methodologies available, each of which are correct according to someone. The average bison-rancher is, at their core, at least interested in ‘wild-things’ and natural systems. This sometimes comes with an automatic rejection of agricultural technologies applied to habitat care and enhancement, while others are cemented in traditional agriculture methods. With the exception of destroying established natural systems, the only way to fail is doing nothing. It’s about feeding bison, which [can] be about regenerative land care. Personally, I prefer the method in which each dollar spent results in an accumulative value and productivity with decreased inputs, after which I benefit from bison forage = bison production = economic sustainability.
