Episode # 262 Grows Big Whitetails – John O’Brion

Whitetail Rendezvous podcast hosted by Bruce Hutcheon

Grows Big Whitetails - John O'Brion Food Plot Seed, Deer mineral, wildlife attractants, plant foods and animal nutrition products. Unique products and services with a natural approach. Grows Big Whitetails - John O'Brion Yeah, Grandpa Ray Outdoors was started officially a couple of years ago as a means of raising money for youth hunting and education of disabled youth, hunts Grandpa Ray Outdoors was started as a tribute to my Grandpa, who owned the farm where my animal nutrition and green thumb inspirations, started. Grandpa Ray Outdoors offers the most innovative products and services for wildlife, food plots, crops, lawn and gardens. Grows Big Whitetails - John O'Brion Grandpa Ray Outdoors was started as a tribute to my Grandpa These products are unique to the industry and sold at a great value. Every product comes with expertise, quality and value. You as a customer instantly become an early innovator. You will have something that very few have. The end result being SUCCESS. Grows Big Whitetails - John O'Brion The end result being SUCCESS Grandpa Ray Outdoors's goal is to provide the best products and the tools to help educate each and every one of our customers. Through education, comes success. Grandpa Ray's works!! John O'Brion Grows Big Deer Through education, comes success Grandpa Ray's Ultimate Deer Mineral Grandpa Ray's Ultimate Attractant Grandpa Ray's 9-4-9 Plant Foods Grandpa Ray's Ultimate Deer Base John O'Brion Grows Big Deer Well I'm just excited about your new book. In the warm up, we were talking about you got a new book coming out just in time for Christmas so let's jump right into it. Let's talk about one the name of the book, where they're gonna be able to get it and why you wrote the book. From Soil to Success John: Yeah, the book is called From Soil to Success. I've been doing nutrition and agronomy in the seed industry for over 25 years and I'm all about education. I've always been focused on consulting and so the book I wrote to give people a different look at nutrition. So I say I'm a nutritious person foremost but yet I wrote a book on soil. And we'll get into that a little bit, and the book I'm looking to have released before Christmas. I do have dealers around the U.S. and I am looking to set up more dealers so each dealer will have my book and also my website which is www.grandparayoutdoorscom in the cart there in the area where I have my food plot seed, minerals, and other products you will be able to purchase the book through there and it might be a great Christmas gift for your family, a husband, wife, kids, friends and my theme, which is educating the public. Bruce: Now talk about the chapters, how is it laid out? John: Okay, so it's going to be more like a guidebook, and what we're gonna do is we'll give people a little bit of a look into my background, we'll be looking at a lot of the different forages so we will have a section discussing a lot of different common and less common forages. We'll be starting with focusing on what is healthy soil? How to create healthy soil? We'll be starting with focusing on what is healthy soil? How to create healthy soil? Basic concepts. We're not gonna make this a super technical guidebook where you need to be a rocket scientist to understand where I'm going with it but we will discuss the different basic nutrients. Everything from the majors, the nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, to the overlooked sulfur. And also the micronutrients and that's where my focus has been even not just with the dry products but also liquids and the foliers. We will be covering every nutrient and showing some different pictures on soils, and also how pH affects your plant growth and fertilizer uptake and so it should be a really easy to follow book one that for the beginner, it should help really educate them on the basic But yet when he wasn't farming, he enjoyed hunting, whether it be deer, ducks, pheasants,