Skyler Leesman is busy planting a "cover crop" on some of our farm ground.  The purpose is to add nutrients to the soil --- he has the wheat stubble on top south of my building site planted to a mixture of Radishes, Peas, Collards, Rye Grass, Oats, Flax, Lentils ---...

Those of you that have been to the Korkow Ranch before --- know that we have several "poles" erected.  Here is how they get erected. 2 of our "Monkeys" --- Tom Frost from Iowa and Dave Hendrickson from Minnesota come over and help me get these up --- I'm just a...

This morning we set out around the Ranch 500 Breeding Hens and 50 more Roosters.  We know that the predators will get some --- that's a given --- but our experience is that quite a few will make it through the first hatch and some will give us a second hatch.  We do...

These two outfits have been working to make our hunting better this fall. The tractor/mower takes care of the food plot areas and the skid steer and mower work in our shelter belt areas so the dogs/hunters can get through them a lot easier. We had an opportunity to...

Here at the Korkow Ranch we went from roughly 3 weeks of 10-20 below to 40-60 above!  It's allowing us to get a jump start on some spring jobs — like mowing food plots — get ready to plant trees — clean some items that we never had time for last fall. I'm seeing quite...

The Korkow Families are busy — taking care of livestock — feeding— checking water — grinding hay — all those Ranch things — plus get the Korkow bucking horses down Texas way— 1st performance for them is in Ft. Worth for their Rodeo and stock Show. For Pheasant Hunting...

The Korkow Families have completed their 2024 pheasant hunts.  Past experiences have shown us to not have hunts after mid-December --- cold/snow /livestock chores/frozen water tanks consume the daylight hours. We thank all the hunters --- their families for kicking...

Pheasant Hunting with the Korkow Families is not just about chasing the Rooster — a little Ranch History — a little ambiance — a little touring — a couple of “man caves” — some food — comradery — and lasting friendships. Our father — Erv Korkow — was a great worker...

But he won't give me his date of birth or driver license number!!  So we can't get insurance!!  I'll bet he is saying  "come on you hunters --- get on the bus --- I'm ready to get some Roosters!" Ha! A great picture! We are a couple of weeks into pheasant hunting ---...

Misty Korkow Clair (Jim’s daughter) sent me the picture — her words here —“These guys get to fight it out for about another month and then we will take care of it!!” TJ Korkow told me earlier this week — “I’ll bet there were 100 birds in the sudan grass I was cutting...