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  • The Boys of Summer

    The Boys of Summer

    → Get a FREE soil test at Elk River Turf & Tine What you have on camera this summer is not what you will have this fall – but its damn close.  If you have good deer in velvet and strike out every fall, you need to try something different. Let a group with hundreds…

  • Roadside Food Plots for Deer

    Roadside Food Plots for Deer

    → Get a FREE soil test at Elk River Turf & Tine Roadside Food Plots for Deer We did some testing last fall on Roadside Food Plots for Deer.  One of these plots had zero activity during legal shooting light, and all of the plots in plain sight of passing traffic saw very little activity during…

  • Late Summer Food Plots

    → Get a FREE soil test at Elk River Turf & Tine Late summer can be a stress period for deer nutrition, and healthy deer are rarely stressed.  Get some cereal grains, clover and brassicas in the ground to avoid the late summer feed lull.

  • New Food Plots for Deer

    New Food Plots for Deer

    → Get a FREE soil test at Elk River Turf & Tine New Food Plots for Deer New plots are often loaded with duff, and the soil to seed contact can suffer.  A great tip is to take a section of chain link fence and drag it behind your wheeler.  It will roll the duff…

  • Food Plots and Fawns

    → Get a FREE soil test at Elk River Turf & Tine Year round food gets your doe herd to size faster and they raise healthier fawns.  Food plots for deer help every deer in your herd.

  • Velvet Time

    → Get a FREE soil test at Elk River Turf & Tine Antlers are growing and if your deer make it through winter in top shape they will grow more bone.  Food plots definitely help.

  • MN High Fence Preserve for sale

    → Get a FREE soil test at Elk River Turf & Tine MN High Fence Preserve for sale One of our clients is selling his fenced preserve in central Minnesota.  The 68 acre piece is located about 5 miles east of Camp Ripley between Little Falls and Brainerd.  4 acre stocked fish pond and floating…

  • Bartylla on browse vs plots

    → Get a FREE soil test at Elk River Turf & Tine Deer are browsers by nature, and like to nibble while they walk.  Plots can put them on the X at certain times of the year.  

  • Deer Governor

    → Get a FREE soil test at Elk River Turf & Tine   The Governor of Minnesota has the power to structure state agencies like the DNR, so I reached out to all of the Democratic and Republican candidates for their ideas on how to fix a lack of accountability and transparency in DNR deer policy…

  • Bartylla on ‘doe factories’

    Bartylla on ‘doe factories’

    → Get a FREE soil test at Elk River Turf & Tine For today, let’s talk about what these dreaded “Doe Factories” are and how to avoid them. The premise is simple, and was fairly accurately in its inception, yet has morphed into something that’s irreparably flawed and far closer to fantasy then reality. What…