#284 - EVERYTHING You Need to Know About Food Plots & Fighting Lobbyists In Iowa With Skip Sligh

The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests

Jake Hofer

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode of The Exodus Podcast, we are sitting back down with Iowa whitetail hunting guru Skip Sly. Skip lives and breathes whitetails 24/7, 365 days a year, and has learned a thing or two about growing big deer in the past 20 years on his personal farms. We discuss:

Fighting lobbyists the for good of Iowa
Organizing hunters to protect hunting
Finding out what bills your state wants to pass
Spring foodplot checklist
The most cost-efficient seeds you should plant
The best food plot for whitetails
Properly placing food plots on your farm
The best screening for food plots
Planting a food plot that you won't hunt
Strategically planting food plots away from high-pressure neighbors
Food vs Habitat on small parcels
Food plots for small parcels
Till vs no-till
Don't make it pretty, make it effective
Should you do control burns?
The essential pieces of equipment for food plots of any size

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0:00.0	What is going on? Welcome to the Exodus podcast. This week we have Skip Sly. He's a returning guest of the Exodus podcast and has also been on the land podcast a handful of times.
0:08.1	We actually have a new conversation with him on the land podcast yesterday and you can listen in on the current land market, some advice for buying land and a lot of really interesting things that are going on in the world of land.
0:19.8	But this is all about food plots. Skip's been a serious food plotter for over 20 years. And we're breaking down a lot of
0:26.0	great tangible information here that you guys can implement as you are drawing out your plan for
0:31.8	the year. And maybe your plan is very similar to what this is. Or maybe you're going to make
0:36.8	some tweaks or maybe you're going to look at it with a fresh perspective. We're discussing the different varieties that he has found a lot of success with over the years. We're discussing a lot of stuff. So I hope you guys really enjoy this. We also talk a little bit about regulations too. But anyways, great conversation. Hope you guys really enjoy this. Before we get into it, I want to let you guys know. If you don't know already, we have
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2:15.4	Let's go ahead and get right into this conversation. Lights.
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