What Deer Hunters Should Know About the EPA’s Latest Review of Glyphosate

May 20, 2019

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently completed a required periodic review of glyphosate’s registration as a legal pesticide, and the product survived the process. Glyphosate remains legal and, according to the EPA, safe when used by the label guidelines. However, EPA is recommending a few adjustments to the label that some of its critics may …

Easy, No-Till Food Plots: Watch Our Whitetail Weekend Seminar

May 1, 2019

| By NDA Staff

For years, a movement in modern agriculture has been pushing more and more farmers to use no-till or low-till farming practices as a way of improving soil and saving on fertilizer and fuel costs, and for the last few years we’ve been intentionally avoiding tillage in some food plots at QDMA Headquarters to achieve the …

NDA’s Guide to Summer Food Plots

March 20, 2019

| By Lindsay Thomas Jr.

It’s time to plant and manage summer food plots! Here is a quick guide to all the useful information available on the NDA website to help you decide what to plant, and how to plant it. Editor’s Note: This page is updated regularly as new summer food plot content is added to the NDA …

Help Deer Refuel After the Rut

December 4, 2018

| By Dave Edwards

Bucks expend a great deal of energy during the fall preparing for and participating in the rut. Depending on the buck:doe ratio, activities like scraping, rubbing, fighting, seeking and chasing can stretch over weeks or even months, and during this time bucks spend less time feeding than normal. Even in well managed herds with balanced …

Green Fields: 10 Ways to Grow Low-Impact Food Plots

August 28, 2018

| By Lindsay Thomas Jr.

Questions about growing quality food plots are nothing new for NDA’s phone lines and e-mail in-boxes. But over time, new themes emerge among the questions, and for the last couple of years, one new theme has dominated: growing low-impact food plots. We are receiving more and more questions from hunters who want to grow food …

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