CWD in Missouri

This week we look into CWD here in our Home State of Missouri and the new areas now affected and what the future will hold.

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CWD in Missouri

[00:00:00] When you dispose of the carcass, either leave it in an area where the deer was killed, because then the predators will come and they'll, they'll, they might not eat all the meat that's left, but they will eat most of it. And if there is any CWD, it will stay in the area where it was originally. Okay. You cannot dispose of that carcass in water.

Yeah, you don't want that. That's illegal anyway, but that would just carry that, you know, if that deer was contaminated, carry it on down the stream and possibly infect areas that were not infected already. And even to the people that do deer processing, they must, Dispose of carcasses now through a commercial transfer.

Camel boots on my feet, bow in my hand. Walking in the early dawn to climb up in my stand. Wise Eye Technologies presents [00:01:00] Welcome to American Roots Outdoors. We are in the studio at K Country 95, Thayer, Mammoth Springs, Missouri. And this is the segment one of our show. And this is where we talk about current events.

This weekend, we have the Current River Smallmouth Association Tournament at Van Buren, Missouri. But right now the river levels, they're saying we got like a 13 foot rise at Van Buren, Redbone. Yeah. Most of the rivers are all closed as of today, Wednesday. We're recording. Most of the rivers are closed, but I did see on your CRSA Facebook post earlier that the decision will be made at seven o'clock Saturday morning on whether or not to have the tournament.

Of course, there's, you know, keeping things safe for all the fishermen. We had to delay the Rivermasters at Doniphant here back in June because of storms and lightning coming in an hour. So we had to delay it. So we went ahead and did the [00:02:00] tournament from 8 a. m. to 5 o'clock p. m., so. The tournament's this weekend.

Some of you may hear the show on Friday evening at KKOC, I believe. Unless it's changed, I don't know. Has it changed, Redbone? Yeah, like a year ago. Saturday mornings. Okay, Saturday mornings again. It's good to know. Thanks. So if you hear this, you're probably too late to sign up for the tournament. You do not have to be a member to fish the CRSA.

Right. Now, the Rivermasters Elite Series, you have to be. It's all about memory and you got to have a top five next tournament for River Masters It's going to be August 17th at Van Buren, Missouri. Hopefully the rivers will go down. It'll be safe for the time I think so for the tournament this weekend.

Yeah, I think it'll be debris in the rivers Well, most of it will be washed down if it drops it gets to five foot. I think they'll have it Well, moving on here Cardinals, [00:03:00] bring us up to speed, Redbone. Well, Cardinals remain red hot. They took three out of four from the Nationals in Washington over the weekend and Monday.

And took two out of three from the Pirates in Pittsburgh before that, so they, they continue to roll. Cardinals are now 48 42, six games over 500. That's pretty dang good. Yeah. I was concerned about them earlier, Redbone. Yeah, I think everybody was. A lot of people have actually written them off, but I remember you even saying, man.

Yeah, they were terrible. But they've kind of turned it around. The offense has come around, the pitching has picked up, and the bullpen has just been a light's out over the last month or so. And that was kind of the issue early in the year, the bullpen was getting knocked around quite a bit. But anyway, they're, they seem to be going in the right direction.

Kansas City Royals, not so much. And the Cardinals and Royals are playing a doubleheader today, Wednesday, as we speak. Of course, their game last night at Bush. got rained out. So today, Wednesday, they're playing at 1245 and then again tonight at 7. Hmm. I got a phone, a text message from my good [00:04:00] friend, Corey Cottrell.

with Hoosaw Valley Resort up at Steelville. He sent me a picture. He had over six inches of rain yesterday. Mm hmm. A lot of rain up around Licking Houston, Missouri, up in that area. It's causing the rivers to really come up. I checked my rain gauge. We had two and two tenths at Birch Street, north of Birch Street.

Yeah, I had probably about three for the whole storm system. Huh. And but boy, it was, you know, where we, where you didn't get six inches or five inches of rain. It came down kind of slow and steady. It was really good for the gardens and the yards and the hayfields and things like that. Up north of us.

And that's why I saw some people yesterday late posting on Facebook about, look the river's not up. Yay, the river's not up. But it takes a while. All the tributaries feed down from the north. And sometimes it takes a while. For those of you that's not in our listening areas and you're listening to the podcast, no matter where you're at, we have a lot of beautiful Ozark streams here at Redbone.

Oh yeah? Let's talk about them real quick. [00:05:00] We got the Current River, Jack's Fork, Big Piney, Little Piney, Gasconade, Merrimack, Leavenpoint Spring River White River, Black River, White River, Black River, Crooked Creek. South Fork. Yeah, and yeah. All right. North Fork River. North Fork River. We got a lot of rivers down here if you love canoeing and kayaking, man, this is the place to come.

And I want to say this, talking about rivers last weekend I was fortunate enough to go see Aaron Tippett Confederate Railroad. And Kentucky Headhunters over in Lowell, Missouri. I want to give a shout out to Tall Pines Moonshine Distillery over there. They put on the event. And a shout out to Tara the owner, her and her husband.

And man, they was a huge crowd there, Redbone. I don't know if you saw my live feed or not, but huge crowd. And got to see Richard and Freddie. And Aaron Tippin hung out with Aaron and Thea on the bus, and I got to take some friends with me. Jamie Mussie from Carthage went with me, and my good friend Rick [00:06:00] and Bev Lynch came.

And we had a great time. I was at a wedding. You was at a wedding? Yeah. I'd go to a wedding in Springfield. Yeah. My niece got married. Beautiful wedding, beautiful venue. And whose wedding? My nieces and they had the, they they bought a farm and it has a 100-year-old dairy barn. Mm-Hmm. that they have turned into an event center.

Oh man, that's, that's huge. Yeah. Yeah. It was, it was gorgeous. Courtney was gorgeous and yeah, everything was fantastic. Rod McKinley and his, his wife also came. Holly was with us. With Legacy Farmland. I want to say also, I'm switching gears to a different subject. My wise eyes are showing several bucks on my wise eyes right now.

And some turkeys, I'm not seeing any baby turkeys, but I'm hearing a lot of reports from everybody, Redbone, that they are seeing them. I heard one person say there was one hen that had 13 poults. Oh, wow. Hey, our subject matter of this show this week [00:07:00] is chronic wasting disease. We're going to talk about that in the next episode.

Five segments, four segments second in the bonus segment, three segments actually for the radio show, but the bonus segment as well. Chronic wasting disease is drawing serious attention from the MDC. And it's something to be concerned about. We're going to talk about that also throughout the show.

We have no guests today. Wayne's not here with us. I think he said Rene had the vehicle or something, he had to stay home and watch the kids or something. So he couldn't be in the show with us today. But we appreciate Wayne, what he does to help us with the podcast. Yeah, we'll make it through without it.

Any other announcements, Redbone? You know, we're, we're about seven weeks and counting away from high school football. Crank it up. It's gonna be exciting. Game, game time. Seven weeks from this Friday. Who are the teams we need to look out for? All of them. Okay. All of them. All of them. Good answer. Good answer.

All of them. [00:08:00] Yeah, you never take anybody lightly. That's, you gotta, I think Liberty's gonna have a pretty decent team. Yep. They'll be above 500. Yep. Yeah, I think Thayer will be better than they were last year. Yeah. And, what about Ava? Ava's always gonna be a really good, Salem is, Salem is gonna be much better.

I'm just telling you, look out for the Salem Tigers. I'm just telling you, look out for the Salem Tigers. Yeah, I agree. Look out for the Salem Tigers. Young man used to be a coach at Thayer's now up at Salem. Oh. Coach Metcalf. And he knows his stuff. Oh yeah, he's turned that team around. Well, he'll help.

He's not the head coach, but he'll help. I think Houston and Kabul, Willow Springs, you know, got a new coach. That might, you know, they might struggle a little bit early, but they got a lot of athletes out of Willow. Same way I hear it. Willow's gonna be good. Houston will be good too. Yeah. Kabul, hey, don't underrate Kabul either.

Yeah. Mountain Grove. Oh, yeah. You know, Grove got Swofford as the head coach now, so look out for Mountain Grove. Get [00:09:00] ready. It's gonna be a huge rival for Liberty. Anyway I got my new Wise Eyes before we go to a break here. I got my Mini and my new DC2. I'm excited to get them set up and running. We're gonna go to a break, everybody.

When we come back, we're gonna talk about CWD, chronic wasting disease. Do not go away. We will be right back with more. Right here, right now. This is Chancy Walters listening to American Roots Outdoors with Alex Rutledge, the Ozark Herd Bull.

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Legacy farmland specialist LLC presents. Welcome back to American roots outdoor segment two of the show and our subject matter. This week, we may do a two part series on this because we need to get somebody from MDC in here to talk about it from their perspective. So what I want to do, the point of the show is to educate people what chronic wasting disease is, and I'm going to read from the website here.

Chronic wasting disease. Short for CWD, or long for CWD, sometimes called zombie deer disease, is a transmissible [00:11:00] spongiform encephalopathy TSC affecting deer. TSCs are a family of diseases thought to be caused by misfolded proteins called prions, and include similar diseases such as BSE, which is mad cow disease.

Crousevelt, Jacob Disease, CJD, Inhumans, and Scraping in Sheep. Natural infection causing CWD affects members of the deer family. In the United States, CWD affects Mule Deer, White tailed Deer, Red Deer, Sitka Deer. Caribou and moose. The transmission of CDWD to other species, such as squirrel monkeys and humanized mice have been observed in experimental settings.

Think about that. Okay, and it says here in 1967, [00:12:00] CWD was the first identified in mule deer at a government research facility in northern Colorado in the United States. It was initially recognized as a clinical wasting syndrome, and then in 1978, it was identified more specifically as a TSE disease. Since then, CWD has been profound in free ranging and captive animal populations in 30 US states and 4 Canadian provinces.

In addition, CWD has been found in one Minnesota red deer farm, one wild reindeer herd in Norway of March 2016, as well as in wild moose. Single cases of CWD in moose have been found in Finland in March 2018. And in Sweden, March and May of 2019, September of 2020, CWD has [00:13:00] found, was also found in South Korea and some deer imported from Canada.

CWD is typified by chronic weight loss, clinical signs compatible with brain lesions, brain lesions aggravated over time, always leading to death. Think about that. This is why people need to be running data cams, WiseEye data cams, to monitor the deer on your property throughout the summer. You can detect the CWD if it's in your county.

And now, according to the MDC, and I read this the other day, Shannon County is now declared a CWD county. Did you read that as well? Yeah. Well, there actually, there are a bunch. There are more counties in Missouri now that are CWD counties. Then there are that are not. In fact, there are only 44 counties in Missouri that are not.

in the CWD management zone. Wow. I can't believe, and I want to touch on this subject, my nephew's a taxidermist, Tommy Rutledge, and he [00:14:00] took samples of every deer that he took in. I can't remember how many he took in. Required by law. Required by law. Next year, supposedly, the new regulation is everybody that kills a deer must bring it to the CWD.

MDC area to have it checked for CWD in Shannon County. Yeah, that's part once, once your county becomes a CWD County, every deer's gotta be checked. Every, every deer killed the opening weekend. Yeah. The 16th and 17th of November have to be checked. Now after that, it's not mandatory, but it is highly recommended.

Okay. Because as of yet, they don't know what eating A CWD infected deer or the meat. Well, that's what leading to this next phrase here. Although reports in the poplar press have been made of human being affected by CWD, by 2004, a study for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, suggested studies are needed.

To monitor the possibility of [00:15:00] such transmissions. A 2019 study concluded that the potential exists for transmission to humans and subsequent human disease. Wow. The epidemiological study further concluded as a precaution, hunters should avoid eating deer and elk tissues known to harbor the CWD agent, e.

g. Brain, spinal cord, eyes, spleen, tonsils, lymph nodes. From areas where CWD has been identified, in April 2024, it was revealed that two men from the same hunting group contracted CJD, prompting medical researchers to speculate transmission had occurred from consuming CWD positive medicine. So, the CWD is a serious disease, Redbone.

It is. It is very serious. And let's go through the counties that have been added to the [00:16:00] management. Okay, you got them. Oh, sure. Beautiful. You've done your homework. Awesome. Yeah, the counties that have been added for 2024 to the CWD Management Zone include Audrain, and these are from, I mean, they're spread out all over the state.

Boone County, Cole County, Dent County, Douglas, Howard, Lewis, Marie's County, Monroe, Newton, Osage, Phelps County, Randolph, Saline, Scotland, Shannon, Shelby, and Webster. Now that's in addition to the counties that were already part of the management zone. And what I suggest people do if you don't know whether or not your county is in the CWD zone, go to mdc.

mo. gov and they've got a map. And every county that's in the management zone is highlighted on that map. Easy to read map, and you know, what that means, if you're in one of those counties, when it comes to [00:17:00] deer season, rifle season, opening weekend, year round, well, let me get to this first. You have to take your deer and have it sampled.

Yes. Or the deer head. Yeah. Now, there are also some other things that go with this. No feeding of animals in a county that is in the CWD zone. Or mineral sites. No mineral sites. Salt licks. No consumable products to attract deer anytime year round. Yeah. Also, deer harvested in a CWD zone must be telechecked before you take it out of the county.

Exactly. And carcass movement restrictions have been implemented. That means before you take that, that deer meat out of the county, you've got to de bone it. Out of your county, exactly. You've got, it's got to be de boned. You cannot take a head to a taxidermist unless, well, you can take it to a taxidermist within 48 hours, [00:18:00] but if you want to transfer, that's if your taxidermist is in your county.

If you want to take it somewhere else, you've You got problems. Yeah. All the brain stuff inside the head has to be removed. Yeah. And this also goes for anybody traveling across our state lines. That's been implemented for several years now. Yeah, and they're there, and that's why they say the restriction.

You know, the deer numbers, we need to go to a break here in a second, but the deer numbers are tremendous in Southern Missouri now. And I think we can contribute that to feeding very good foods, feeds, seriously. But you can understand why MDC wants regulations and rules, because if one sick deer Could infect the whole herd.

Well, CWD could infect the whole deer herd. Then it kills out our deer herd. Then, you know, like Minnesota, Wisconsin, they can, Michigan, I believe they had a program where they went in and killed out a bunch of deer. Yeah, years ago, they did [00:19:00] that, and it didn't help. No, because when the deer started repopulating they still had CWD.

We're gonna go to a break everybody when we come back We're gonna talk more about chronic wasting disease CWD. Don't go away We'll be right back with more American Roots Outdoors right after this

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Hornady Ammunition presents. Welcome back to American Roots Outdoors. For all of you gun lovers that love to rifle shoot, what a better time to be out target shooting right now. Yeah. You know, these cool evenings, man, that rain we got yesterday was slow and what a great day to be out shooting. You know, as long as it wasn't a downpour, it was cool [00:21:00] and I love the plink year round.

Don't you, Redbone? I do. Miss Nina and I, we get the 22s out, the rifles and the handguns. Yeah. And we shoot every once in a while. Yeah. You know, I hear my neighbors shooting a lot, too. So, you know, it's good to live in a state like Missouri, where we are all You know, pro second amendment, about 98 percent of us.

My neighbor shoots a lot, too. And big rifles. Yeah, oh yeah. And, and, but right after the Fourth of July, I heard blasts going off. I thought, oh, they're out shooting again. And I looked up, and there were these big fireballs in the sky. I just didn't think anything of it. They put on a nice, you know, fireworks display.

But Hornet Ammunition, just want to touch on it real quick. These guys give so much money back to different organizations to help protect our gun rights and our ownership. And they're very huge supporters of Sportsman's Alliance. Yeah. Team USA. Team USA. Yeah. Well, the Olympics coming up in 16 days.

I'm sure that they have outfitted Team USA. [00:22:00] Yeah. Getting back on our subject of chronic wasting disease, I have some things I want to talk about, and I'm bringing these issues up because I think they're an issue, but it just seems to not make sense in a way, and I'm not trying to be negative, but I'm just trying to get a point across.

Farmers that feed their cattle. Mm hmm. Deer come up and eat out of those feeders. Mm hmm. And I'm not being mean, but that, they can't keep a farmer from feeding their cattle. No. Think about that. And they got salt blocks for the cattle. Yep. And the deer will use those too. They will. So, that's why we need somebody from MDC to come on here and talk with us and I've got an invite out.

I hope they're listening. Brad Hadley listens to every show and I thank him for that. Hopefully Logan does too, Logan Brawley, our agents. And we'd love to have somebody from [00:23:00] MDC to come and talk with us next week or two. You know? Yeah, and there's so much that goes into this, Alex. Yeah. Like disposal of your deer.

Yeah, let's talk about that. I was just reading some of that. I didn't take any notes, but the, the, the thing I think is most important. Once you harvest the deer, next you need to, when you dispose of the carcass, you leave it in an area where the deer was killed, because then the predators will come and they'll, they'll, they might not eat all the meat that's left, but they will eat most of it.

The bones. And if there is any CWD, it will stay in the area where it was originally. Okay. You cannot dispose of that carcass in water. Yes, you don't want that. That's illegal anyway, but that would just carry that, you know, if that deer was contaminated, carry it on down the stream and possibly infect areas that were not infected already.

And even to the people that do deer processing, they must dispose of carcasses now through a commercial trash service. [00:24:00] Really? Yes. So, so put those deer carcasses in landfills, which I know the answer to this, but I'm going to ask it. So when somebody kills a deer and they can't just dump it down on County roads, they'll get a citation.

Oh yeah. If they get caught. Well, we have a lot of that going on in our area. And around north of Birch Street. Yeah, see that helps contribute to the spread of the CWD. Yeah, and what it does, it just, it makes all hunters look bad when they're dumping it beside the road and everybody drives by and there's vultures there and stinking and you know, hey, find a good place to get rid of the carcasses, you know.

Don't make other hunters look bad, you know. One other thing I want to say because there's probably somebody out there that says, you know, I'll just throw that deer on the trash pile and burn it. Okay. No. Okay. Because only commercial. incinerators will reach the 1800 degrees to get rid of all of it. To get rid of all of it.

[00:25:00] Yeah. Yeah. So burning it. A man would have to have a serious hot, hot fire to get rid of carcasses. Yeah. You don't get burning trash or burning a brick pile. Also some people are burying the carcasses. They have a dump pile or whatever and dig a hole and put the carcasses in there. You do that. They suggest you do that in the area where the deer was harvested.

I know I'd hate to see us lose our numbers of deer and not be able to hunt them, you know. Yeah, I'm glad that, you know, there's diseases within turkeys too. We can talk about that sometime at another time. Blackhead from feeding. Yeah, but anyway, it is, it is very serious. And I sat in on many, many shows. Where it has been discussed, and it's, it's, it's just so much is unknown about really how many deer actually have it, because they do a sample study, but that is a very small number of the total number of deer that are out there.

So it's really hard to judge how many actual deer may be infected. Yeah, [00:26:00] that's a serious issue. Very serious. Yeah, we're going to go to a break everybody. When we come back, we're going to talk more about chronic wasting disease. Don't go away. We'll be right back with more right after this. This is Brenda Valentine and you're listening to American Roots Outdoors with Alex Rutledge and friends.

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Eagle seed presents. Welcome back to American reach outdoor segment. Four of our show, our subject. This week is chronic wasting disease. We've discussed the prions and what causes it and how to prevent it. And we can understand why there's concerns. I know there's some people upset because they've declared certain counties CWD, CWD zone now.

A lot of people's fed for years, and hey, I've fed for over 30 years, and let me tell you, there's positives of feeding, but there's also negatives. Like they say, think, and they've discussed, if there's a sick deer, you can spread diseases, you know, within that area. And you've said it many times on this show, [00:28:00] for people to feed in different areas.

Yeah, don't feed in the same spot, unless you got something to keep, you know, not on the ground. And now, of course. You know, back that up with, if you're in a CWD county, you can't feed at all. You know, I can honestly say I've never seen a CWD deer, but I'll tell you what I have seen, and that's why you need to run trail cameras.

If you're a serious hunter and you, you believe in conservation, run these Wise Eye data cams. You get a picture of your camera to your iPhone or iPad computer in five, 10 seconds. You can monitor what's going on. If there's a sick deer on your property, I encourage you instantly to call your agent to let them know about it.

If you find a dead deer by a pond. You need to let your agent know. Because you're doing your part to conserve and help protect our deer herd. And whether it be CWD or some other, you know, blue tongue or some other disease, they need to know about it. [00:29:00] You know, right here in the heat of July is when you're going to see some dead deer.

Oh yeah. Have you noticed, Redbone, and we're still talking about deer, when you're driving down some of these roads, and I noticed coming down here today on 99, you smell dead stuff very often along the highways. Yep. That's because we have a huge amount a very strong population of deer and people hit them on the roads.

Yeah, deer and I mean other wildlife too. The skunks, opossums, coons and everything else. Yeah, hitting bears. My daughter almost hit a bear, Van Buren, two weeks ago. I want to go back to the positive feeding you know, the positive feeding. Again, you can monitor the deer. If you run into Wise Eye data camps to tell what the deer, what health they're in.

But also, it creates a healthier deer herd. But all it takes is one bad apple, and that bad apple can be one sick deer to cause problems. Yeah. So, everybody's listening. If you've been feeding, you can no longer feed or have [00:30:00] mineral sites on your property. And you a citation if you're in our county, CWD zone.

And you know, we went through those counties earlier in the show. The new ones. Let's mention them again. Well, these are, yeah. Okay. The new ones. The new ones just added this year. Okay. Audrain, Boone, Cole, Dent, Douglas, Howard, Lewis, Maurice, Monroe, Newton, Osage, Phelps, Randolph, Selene, Scotland, Shannon, Shelby, and Webster.

Those are the new ones. What I suggest you do is go to mdc. mo. gov, G O V, and look up the maps. And another thing that you need to do, if you're in the CWD zone, is you need to pick up, and it's available on the website too, you need to pick up the 2024 Fall Deer and Turkey Booklet, which are free everywhere you can buy deer tags and any [00:31:00] other license.

And you need to read, because they've got the detailed information there to help you when it comes time to deer hunt. What you have to do, what you can do, what you can't do. All the do's and do's, do, dos, do's and don'ts are in there. So please go check that out or go to the website and read up on it.

Yeah. We want to encourage everybody to abide by the law. We're, we're not gonna sit here and tell you to break the law by feeding the deer. No. We gotta preserve what we got. Some people's going to continue to feed and they're gonna say, all right, gimme the ticket. Serious. But I just want to say this.

For those of you that are going to quit feeding, I highly recommend you to plant more food plots. Yeah, you got to have more food on your property if you're not feeding them. And especially a high protein food, something that's going to help them throughout the complete winter time. Yeah, like the Eagle Seed Smorgasbord.

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Yeah, it does. And you know, a lot of people's planting it. Mm hmm. Yeah. And it's very important for your turkeys. Yeah. Before we wrap up the show here, I want to switch gears a little bit here. You know, election time's coming up in August, and I just want to make mention, study your candidates. Mm hmm.

Okay? Don't vote because you don't like the way somebody talks or whatever. Study the candidate and make, the way they look, make sure they are doing, will be the best candidate for whatever you're voting for. You know if you're a liberal, you support liberalism. If you're a conservative, you support people that's conservative.

Okay. If you're moderate. Yeah. If you're moderate, you support. Yeah. We're, we're, we're being fair here. Yeah. Okay. [00:33:00] So. You should, you should always vote your conviction. Yeah. Now, I'm a conservative. Yeah, I am, too. You know, I know you are. And a majority of us here are in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas.

Right. We're conservatives. We are patriots. We, we, Bible believing Christians is what we are. And we believe in that, you know? So I just want to give a big shout out I can do that, to my friends that I believe and trust in. Travis Smith, you know him. You know he was a football coach? No, I didn't. Yeah, I know he was a football announcer for a while.

Yeah. Yeah, he told me maybe I misunderstood. Maybe he was an announcer Yeah, he used to help with West Plains visitor. Yeah, he's running for Senate Elliott, you know him. Oh, yeah. Good guy. I met Mr. Elliott during this campaign season. Yeah, he seems like a good guy Yeah, Joe Lloyd good guy Herman Kelly. These are guys I'm supporting.

I believe in it Yeah Again, study your candidates. And I want to say this, Redbone, we got something going on in our [00:34:00] county that's pretty sad. People's tearing down signs. Oh. Can you believe that? One thing is still legal. Yeah. They're tearing signs down of one of my friends, I ain't gonna say who it is, but they're doing that.

It shows how childish they are. They must be scared or something, huh? Yep. Got something to hide. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. Tearing down election signs, it doesn't matter if it's on a local, it Yeah. Statewide or federal level, it is a crime. Hey, my nephew had his mailbox blowed up and a sign removed from his driveway.

That's how bad it is over there. Also against the law. Yeah, it is. Anyway, we've had a great show. We've covered a great subject matter, CWD. We're going to talk more about that, and we're going to talk about Things that I'm going to do to keep myself from getting in trouble since I've fed for so many years.

But we want to abide by the laws. And again, we hope somebody listening from MDC will be a guest with us on a show in the future to talk about this so we can educate people [00:35:00] more and more about this. Yeah, and by the way, you know, we have a lot of listeners in Arkansas. Well, there is. Signal, you know, goes into Arkansas.

There are a large number of counties in Arkansas that are CWD management areas, too. We need to talk about them sometime, too. And most of those are in northwest Arkansas. Yeah. And that's where the CWD came from into Missouri, they think is through the well, from northwest Arkansas into southwest Missouri and then has spread all the way up to the Iowa border, folks.

This is not just a Southern Missouri issue, this is a statewide issue. Yeah. You go look at the map and it's amazing. One last thing I want to say we got just about a minute or so left here. I'm eating some good vegetables out of our garden buddy. Tomatoes, cucumbers. We're getting ready to dig up our beets.

We've been eating cabbage. Linda's been taking cabbage and putting butter on it, making cabbage steaks, wrapping it in tin foil, baking grease, salt and pepper. Oh my goodness. Yeah, do y'all make sauerkraut? No, we're going to. She makes, she [00:36:00] made some like a pako, Kind of a relish the other day. Oh my goodness.

Peppers in it, green peppers in it. Teenage relish with the squash. Yeah. Man, the summer time. Lovin it. Lovin it. I got okra comin out my ears. Do ya? Linda loves okra. You need to bring me some. And also, I want some of your blackberry starts, your tamed blackberries. Okay. This fall. Well, I'm gonna be diggin some up because I've got way too many.

When are you gonna do that? When are you gonna do it? Well, it'll be in the fall. Okay. It'll be in the fall. But I got way too much. I put out 13 blackberry bushes to start. I bet you I've got a thousand now. Oh, I need, I need about I'm picking a gallon of blackberries a day. You kidding me? Can you, can I get some from you?

I'll buy them from you. Oh, you don't have to buy them, but yeah, I'll bring some next week. I'll trade you some turkey calls. This rain the last couple of days has made them just explode again. I went out there this morning before I came to town, and there's just blackberries everywhere. [00:37:00] for listening to our show, man.

We're just country is fried taters and we don't know how to act any different. We're so blessed to live here in the Ozarks and Northern Arkansas, Southern Missouri, and if you're ever in this area, come and visit us, you know, you know, I had our buddy Bill Reeves. Oh, I wasn't going to be able to pick that day.

I didn't want to go to waste. So he said to him and his his other, they picked a gallon of blackberries in 30 minutes. Well, when can I come down and pick them? Today if you want. I can't today, I got other meetings. I haven't picked in three days because of the rain. It's gonna be crazy. Anyway, we got the bonus thing, but coming up we're gonna wrap it up everybody.

We're gonna talk more about CWD and things that I'm gonna do to keep more deer and turkey on my property since I can't feed anymore. Always remember, teach your boys to become men. Teach your girls to become ladies and always remember when your roots run deep and strong, there is no reason to fear the wind, so you never gotta worry [00:38:00] what the might do.

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Talk about things I'm going to do to try to help keep more deer on my property and help them keep healthy instead of feeding because now Shannon County is the CWD County. I can't feed or have mineral sites anymore, Redbone. Yeah, well, I mean it's that way almost statewide in Missouri now. Yeah, you know with the additional counties have been added to the CWD Management zone and we talked about those [00:40:00] counties in the radio show, but It's like three fourths of the counties in the state of Missouri are now in the CWD zone.

I can understand why MDC has declared some of these counties, but I've not heard of any CWD found in Shannon County. And that just, it bum fuzzles me, and there's people upset about it because they've declared Shannon County. I'm telling you right now. Yeah. Well, there was in Oregon County too, but if any county is within 10 miles of an actual CWD case, and there's been some in Northern Oregon County.

Oh, that's probably what it is then. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's probably why they did it, see I couldn't put a finger, I thought, well maybe it's because we have too many deer. And there's been some in Dent County that joins you on the north. Makes sense, Redbone. Yeah. Any county within 10 miles of an actual case.

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And not using feed but the food plots. Yeah, I'm just going to put up no hunting signs. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Don't eat my blackberries, huh? I'm going to put no hunting signs that way the deer will feel comfortable, they'll come in. No, I'm just kidding, of course. The smorgasbord, you know, has got the varieties [00:42:00] but I'm going to do some different things.

I'm, I'm actually thinking about planting alfalfa. Really? And breaking my ground and planting it. You know, I may need to wait and plant it in the spring, but I'll probably come back and plant it again with winter oats and the smorgasbord, about four acres of it in the middle of my property. And the others all have teaser plots and may have different blends in it.

So the secret is, is going to be having plenty of food source and water. Every food plot I got, there's water at every food plot. So if you want to hold more deer, you need to have water, you need to have the right habitat and food sources to hold them there. Yeah, and you got to have those bedding areas and those things.

And keep the pressure off of it. And I've always talked about setting up your farm or whatever, and I set up people's farms. If you go in the middle of your property, I don't care if you've got 10 acres or you've got a thousand, and you go into the middle of your property and create the biggest food plots, that's where most of the deer and turkeys are going to [00:43:00] concentrate.

And you try to keep the pressure off of that area as much as possible. But if you'll create teaser plots Depending on the size of your property, you have teaser plots, small killing plots, north, south, east, and west, and you hunt mainly the edges and stay out of the middle. And if you got the right habitat, bedding, water, food source, less pressure where they're going to live.

Yeah, exactly. So hunt those travel routes. Hunt the travel routes. Hunt the edges of your property. That way you control what comes and goes. And make sure you get along with your neighbors, you know. And maybe if they're doing the same thing, it's going to help each other. Yeah, and I think, you know, as long as this CWD thing lasts, and that's one of the things about it, once a county is in it, there's no word on how long they're going to be a CWD county.

Yeah. It may be from now on. It may be 10 years. It may be two or three years. We don't know that right now. Yeah. I don't think MDC does either. But yeah, I think that [00:44:00] food plots have become more prevalent. It does. I would agree. Well, Redbone, we've had a great show. And that's time to wrap it up here.

We've covered great subject matter next week. We may have a slider fishing on here. Oh, cool. So they're going to talk about their roots and talk about new products and what's coming up in the future for them. And we'll go to work, I mean, and try and get somebody who knows more about CWDs than we do. Yeah.

To come in and talk about it. All we're trying to do is introduce and help people become aware of what's transpiring with the new rules and regulations of the MDC in our areas. And you know, something else I didn't think about earlier, but if you're going to be traveling to another state to hunt. You might want to check on the CWD situation in that state, or at least in that county you're going to be hunting.

Exactly. Because this is something that has gone nationwide. It's serious everybody. [00:45:00] Take it serious. Spread the word. Remember, election time's coming up. Choose your candidates wisely. Don't be childish just because you don't like the way somebody talks or their skin color. Study your candidate. Make sure they line up with what you believe.

And make sure they can handle the job to keep you out of trouble and best represent you. In your community, remember this, as we always say, teach your boys become men, teach your young girls to become ladies. And always remember when your roots run deep and strong, there is no reason to fear the wind. So you never got to worry what the wind might do, American Roots.

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