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Bucks look frantically for love

Jerry Davis For Agri-View
Oct 18, 2023
Oct 18, 2023

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Deer continue to feed in soybean fields and will even after combining is completed.

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Bur-oak limbs are stripped of bark by active bucks.

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American chestnuts are opening to show seeds.

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Jerry Davis For Agri-View

Everyone sees deer movement but some want it hushed – as though it were a secret trout-fishing spot.

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