Adding Soft Mast Trees to Your Wildlife Food Plots

Adding Soft Mast Trees to Your Wildlife Food Plots

I haven’t yet met a hunter that didn’t want to improve his/her hunting situation and attract more deer.  Over the last couple of years, I have written about several strategies Panhandle hunters can adopt to accomplish just that – namely planting warm season forages...
Oriental Persimmon – An Alternative Crop for the Back Forty

Oriental Persimmon: For the Specialty Fruit Market

A recent visit to the North Florida Research and Education Center reminded me of the potential of a specialty fruit that is often forgotten about in Northwest Florida, the Oriental persimmon. The Oriental, or Japanese, persimmon (Diospyros kaki) was introduced to the...