Drop-Tine Podcast -The official deer management, food plot & habitat podcast · Jason R. Snavely

Jason's 'Challenge-Coin-Earning' Presentation in Springfield MO -Plants Fix Dirt & Wild Health!

December 4, 2024·1 hr 31 min·5 clips

A deer-poop test showed hop clover and hemlock, not the big forage soybeans he expected.

1. Drop-Tine Podcast presents Jason's Springfield, Missouri talk from the 2024 Farming and Ranching for the Future event. 2. Jason is the speaker, Dr. Liz Haney organized the event, and Rick Haney, Fred Provenza, Steve Groff, Aldo Leopold, and Stoddard all shape his argument. 3. The talk asks whether farming, ranching, wildlife management, and soil health can be treated as one connected system. 4. Jason says he met farmers and ranchers practicing regenerative and holistic farming who want to produce nutrient-dense food for consumers. 5. He argues that those farmers struggle to get paid enough because nutrient-dense, toxin-free food costs more to produce. 6. He contrasts that cost with American health care and asks whether people will pay more now to prevent chronic disease. 7. Jason says the Springfield audience was hearing the audio version because many listeners have windshield time and tractor time but not video time. 8. He previews a winter 2024 special reload blend for spring 2025 and says it will be a small-batch custom mix for early spring planting. 9. He says the blend is meant to get ahead of unwanted food plot weeds and prime soil biology for the 2025 hunting season. 10. Jason says his wildlife consulting work began after he graduated from Mississippi State University in 2001 with a wildlife and fishery science degree. 11. He says he started Drop-Tine Wildlife Consulting immediately after graduation and wanted to work on legacy properties with frustrated landowners. 12. He says private consulting forced him to use innovative tools because clients would not pay just for ordinary advice. 13. Jason says food plots became a major tool, even though he still values prescribed fire, timber stand improvement, and early successional habitat. 14. He says he later started a podcast, then launched the subscription Innovators Podcast in September for deeper discussions of toxins, herbicides, and soil health. 15. He says he teamed up with Dr. Rick Haney to start Carbon Diagnostics, which makes infield soil-health tools. 16. Jason says he bought 95 acres in Columbia County near Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, as a proving ground for his ideas. 17. He says the property started as degraded habitat with monocultures, heavy synthetic inputs, and what Gabe Brown would call recreational tillage. 18. Jason says his first deer management strategy used forage soybeans, clover, chicory, radish, turnips, and corn, but it focused too much on yield and biomass. 19. He says a deer-poop DNA metabarcoding test changed his thinking by pointing to hop clover and hemlock, not the crops he expected. 20. Jason says that result pushed him toward multi-species cover crops and biological primers that let deer express nutritional wisdom.

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