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All right, folks, welcome back to another episode of Rutfresh. This is Jake Hofer. We have a late season update across the country. We have Ohio, Illinois, in Michigan, and we have cold temperatures. We have some more cold temperatures coming in here. So as you can imagine here in the Midwest, food is going to be a very large priority, but what happens when things aren't perfect?

The buck isn't quite showing up on time, or maybe your access isn't perfect. We're going to talk about some of the more intricate details of what you can do if you have a potential opportunity at a great late-season food source. Hope you guys enjoyed this episode with Mark Kenyon, Justin Hollinsworth, and Grant Putnam from Illinois. As you know, Ruffresh is brought to you by land.com, the leading online real estate marketplace

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We're going to kick things off here with Mark Kenyon to get a quick season update from Michigan.

Here we go.

All right, we're kicking things off with none other than Mark. It's been a minute since

you've been out here on Rough Fresh. We're in December. We're inching deeper and deeper into the

year. How's it going? It's great. It's been a fun season. It's been,

you know, as they always do, they always seem to go so fast. You dream of it all year long, and it seems like it's forever away, and then you blink, and then the season's like almost here, and then you're panicking about, I'm not ready for this, or what I need to do, and then you blink again and then the season's almost done. It seems like every year that's the story. And it was true once again this year. But it's been

really good. And December so far, it's off to good start, you know, for a lot of different reasons.

Yeah. Well, we've, and I feel like this, and I've talked about it here on Roughresh, but this is

one of the colder first parts of

December we've had in a really long time where the food sources and everything else comes into

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