KORKOW FAMILY RANCH BLOG
Thank you for stopping to read some of the latest happening’s and news from the Korkow Family Hunting Ranch.
Happy 2026 from the Korkow Families
Jim/Carol and Dixie/Don posing for the picture --- cold but no snow --- just some ice. We are working on our 2026 fall hunting. A lot of our hunters booked in before they left last Fall --- if you didn't and are thinking about coming to hunt with the Korkow Families...
Thank you from the Korkow Families
Its a real team effort here at the Korkow Ranch --- All our volunteers, their spouses who bake the cookies, bars, and treats that go on the hunting buses --- Make the salsa and tomato sauce for Chili --- And make a lot of pork sausage for breakfast. And those that...
Pheasant Hunting & Grand Dogs 🐾
The Korkow Families are hard at Pheasant hunting... I'm Chilling out with my "Grand Dogs" Baily & Bear. These are my son Craig and daughter-in-law Tonya's dogs --- they really are ready to hunt some more --- Craig will be back to the Ranch this coming Thursday for...
Just a little over a month
Just a little over a month --- and the Roosters won't be safe!! Can any of the Pheasant Hunters who have been here before --- remember where this "REFERENCE POLE" is located --- good for a laugh! We have been getting ready --- mowing strips, trails and getting...
Cover Crop
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 ---...
I’m just a tractor driver – they do the work!
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...
Another big morning at the Korkow Ranch
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...
250 Roosters Released and New Equipment
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...
What A Change In Temperature!
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...
It’s that time of year!
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...
