Western Iowa and Eastern Nebraska's QDMA Branch

Life as we know it is changing around us every day, same for the fall/winter food-plot we installed in Papillion, Ne not to long ago.  This project is one that holds more personal pride for our group than anything.  You see, we simply planted this plot for animals that will never be hunted in this [...]

Well, I was wanting to wait an entire week until I updated this blog post, but seeing that there are already some early results, I wanted to get them out there as soon as I could.  Today is day five of our “Natures Elements” test that I started just to see how well some of [...]

As the Vice President of both the Heartland QDMA chapter as well as Big & J Industries, LLC  I get asked time and time again, “how does BB2 hold up against the elements, and every time the answer is the same, well that depends on numerous factors.  Since we are days into the Nebraska season [...]

What an amazing time at the 2010 QDMA National Convention in Louisville, Ky this past weekend where the Heartland Chapter of QDMA was recognized for their hard work and dedication to our REACH program within the QDMA organization.  Some of you may remember a story written by, then president of our chapter, “Marty Edwards” about [...]

Well needless to say, this year has been full of surprises on the “Big & J Testing Grounds” here in Nebraska.  With weather being the biggest issue we have faced, we were finally able to plant our food plots last weekend.  With that being said the process was one that I found very interesting, this [...]

It’s a great day here in the heartland, the weather has finally broken for the better and it’s time to get those food plots in and pre-season scouting cameras up and running!  The heartland chapter is composed of a great group of folks from many backgrounds with the same passion, whitetail deer, not to mention [...]