Welcome to Wild Turkey Science, a podcast made possible by Turkeys for Tomorrow.

I'm Dr. Marcus Lashley, Professor of Wildlife Ecology at the University of Florida.

And I'm Dr. Will Gulsby, Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management at Auburn University.

We're both lifelong hunters and devoted scientists who are passionate about hunting,

managing, and researching wild turkeys.

In this podcast, we'll explore turkey research, speak to the experts in the field, and address the difficult questions related to wild turkey ecology and management.

Our goal is to serve as your connection to wild turkey science. You intentionally sabotaged me on this, for the record.

All right, so we're talking about placing feed for animals, whether it be with the intention of supplemental feeding or baiting.

And this conversation oftentimes revolves. whether it be with the intention of supplemental feeding or baiting.

And this conversation oftentimes revolves around aflatoxin and corn, right?

Yeah.

In fact, you asked me before we start recording if we want to really focus on it, and I'm hesitant to do that because that always takes over the conversation like it's the

only problem. And the reality is that there are some other important issues that people need to be

aware of. Although aflatoxin, I don't mean to downplay its significance either. And that's probably

the reason it gets talked about so much

as we'll get to in just a second, because it does have some potentially some very severe

consequences. Yeah. So I do want to take a moment to say, I know, I mean, we presented it in the

last episode, a lot of people are using feed for one reason or another.

This is not to point fingers at people or any of that kind of thing, but we think that it is

an issue that we need to cover in detail so that if you're one of those people trying to make

that decision, you know what the implications are. And if you're one of those people trying to make that decision, you know what

the implications are.

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