What Four Conversations Taught Us About the State of Waterfowl

TrophyCast took the show on the road this time, broadcasting live from Squadfest at Dive Bomb Industries in Hazelwood. Over the course of the day, the crew, with added host and Trophy Agent Anthony Pozzi, sat down with four guests — a decoy company founder, a habitat nonprofit director, a hunting-tech entrepreneur, and a Ducks Unlimited regional director — and each conversation circled back to the same idea: this stretch of ground along the Mississippi Flyway is genuinely rare, and the people working to protect and understand it have a lot to offer anyone buying, selling, or developing property here.

First up was Cody Stokes, founder of Dive Bomb, who traced the company's start back to 2009 — photographing geese in a park and selling silhouette decoys on Craigslist before the busi...

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Knee High by the 4th of July? Corn has changed…

TrophyCast's second episode brought in its first guest, and the crew didn't have to look far — Zach Nixon, District Sales Manager for Beck's Hybrids, covering nine counties in northeast Missouri. He's also cousins with co-host Jason Wallingford, a connection that came up more than once. Zach's a first-generation cattle farmer with a wife and three kids, six years into his career at Beck's, and he came prepared to talk shop — corn, cattle, dirt, deer, and everything in between.

First thing worth knowing: the old saying about corn being knee-high by the Fourth of July doesn't hold up anymore. Modern hybrids are tasseling by early July now. If a field isn't already well above head height by then, something either went wrong or went in late.

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