EP81 - Cache River Farms: Dustin Roddy Talks Duck Habitat Playbook
Dive Bomb Squadcast
Ashur Tolliver
4.9 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Dive Bomb Squadcast, host Matt Judy sits down with Dustin Roddy, habitat manager of Cache River Farms in Arkansas. The two dive into the world of waterfowl habitat management, exploring the balance between land practices, the health of the Cache River, and the many factors that shape duck populations. Dustin shares his journey from a passionate duck hunter to managing premier habitat, offering a behind-the-scenes look at both the struggles and wins of developing duck ground. From technology and management tools to DIY tips for landowners, this conversation highlights the importance of tailoring habitat work to each unique property.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? |
| 0:09.2 | Welcome back to the dive bomb squadcast. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm your host, Matt Judy is episode 81 coming at you. |
| 0:15.5 | Today is going to be all about land management, habitat management, farming for ducks. |
| 0:20.6 | Today we have Dustin Roddy on of Cash River Farms. |
| 0:23.7 | How you doing, man? |
| 0:25.0 | Good, man. How are you, Matt? |
| 0:26.5 | Pretty good. Doing good. |
| 0:28.3 | Are you at a pretty busy time of the years? |
| 0:30.9 | Is it kind of slowing down or is it just always busy? |
| 0:33.9 | No, we're blowing and going, man. |
| 0:35.8 | It was super wet this spring and early summer, |
| 0:38.5 | so the whole schedule kind of got delayed and pushed back. |
| 0:42.6 | And so we're trying to get to jam six months of stuff |
| 0:48.1 | or eight months of stuff into a much shorter window right now. |
| 0:52.2 | Oh, dang, yeah, that sounds pretty hectic, actually. Oh, dang. Yeah, that sounds, that sounds pretty hectic actually. |
| 0:57.0 | Yes, sir. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, it's been a whirlwind the last little bit here. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, yeah, we can get into that a little bit later. |
| 1:04.0 | But I kind of just wanted to start out, you know, on how kind of you grew up into this scene. |
| 1:10.0 | Did you like grow up in it or was it just like kind of a grew up into this scene. Did you, like, grow up in it? |
| 1:11.6 | Or was it just, like, kind of a passion that you developed? |
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