Why should you learn how to butcher your own deer? Because the venison will taste better. Professional butchers need to profit from their efforts, and that’s fine. But since time is money, most of ...

Agricultural & Natural Resources: Hunting is a way of life for many citizens of Indiana. In 2022, 121,812 deer were harvested across the state. While some of these deer end up at commercial meat ...

Middle Tennessee deer processors are hard at work this time of year, taking thousands of deer harvested by hunters and turning those kills into frozen steaks, ground meat and sausages. Jim Flowers has ...

A mud-caked buck appears out of nowhere, his legs stained from the bog. The deer scans its surroundings. He’s an old deer that knows just how perilous life can be outside the security of his swamp.

Every second weekend December, I take a new hunter deer hunting. I hunt the same farms, in the same county, with the same landowners. Year after year, we stick to the same program, literally: Through ...

You've tagged your deer, field dressed it, got some buddies to help you haul it out (and celebrate), and now you've got it hanging from the meat pole. Nice work—and good timing, too. At this point in ...