How To Hunt Turkey - Building the Perfect Turkey Farm

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4.8 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the How to Hunt Turkey podcast, host Dan Johnson speaks with Zach Haas, a land management expert, about the intricacies of creating and maintaining optimal habitats for turkeys. They discuss the importance of water sources, nesting sites, roosting trees, and the impact of predation on turkey populations. Zach shares insights on how to restore turkey populations in areas where they have diminished and emphasizes the need for proper habitat management to ensure the health and sustainability of turkey populations. The conversation also touches on hunting strategies and the significance of scouting for successful turkey hunting.

Takeaways

Wrestling teaches mental toughness applicable in life.
Water is crucial for turkey health and habitat.
Improving deer habitat also benefits turkey populations.
Nesting sites are essential for turkey reproduction.
Roosting trees should be prioritized for turkey safety.
Creating diverse habitats increases wildlife sustainability.
Predation control is vital for turkey population health.
Insects are a primary food source for young poults.
Habitat management requires understanding wildlife needs.
Scouting is key to successful turkey hunting strategies.

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0:33.3	All right, everybody, this is the How to Hunt Turkey Podcast.
0:37.2	I'm your host, Dan Johnson, and it's cold. It's really cold right now. We just come off of a really good warm spell here in Iowa. And the newsman says we got more springtime weather coming down the pipe and that gets me a little bit excited.
0:55.5	I saw, I've been seeing turkeys all over the place on my little driveabouts that I do and it
1:02.2	gets me fired up for the upcoming season. Today's guest is Zach Haas. Zach, how are we doing,
1:07.7	man? Doing good. I'm doing good. Well, good. A little tired had a long weekend with my, my boy had a wrestling meet,
1:14.9	so it was a long weekend.
1:16.5	Oh, wrestling.
1:18.3	How, dude, that's the name of this family right here.
1:22.2	Dude, we're wrestling everything these days.
1:25.2	My daughter's getting ready for state right now.
1:28.7	And my boys, they just got done with their season. They're still relatively new and
1:35.0	green to the whole thing. But my daughter, she's getting primed for state and she'll be
1:40.8	wrestling in two weeks for state. So that's awesome. That's awesome. How old is your boy? He's nine, so that was his, and that was his first wrestling meet. So he did pretty good. Nice. Some things to learn, but overall, overall, it was good. And my nephews, they've always wrestles. So they're there, two, at the same meet, so I was able to watch my nephews, too. So it's fun so they're there too at the same meet so i was able to watch
2:00.9	my nephews too so it's it's fun it's a cool sport it's it's the hardest sport and the only time
2:06.1	you really challenge yourself because it's truly one-on-one yeah absolutely you cannot if you do bad
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