You took that pretty personal. In mower sales or something?

He's the extension wildlife specialist at University of Tennessee and a professor whose primary field is soils and management practice impacts on deer along with wildlife food plots with an emphasis on deer forage plots.... in other words, the guy is a PhD whose research specializes in feeding deer and managing deer herds.

His statement was more nuanced than that and was basically that many many people mow too much. Calls it "recreational mowing". He's actually good with foodplots - thinks they should be mowed less. For example he thinks clover plots should mostly be treated with grass selective herbicide and mowed 1x/year. Most non-planted fields he thinks should be burned every 1-3 years or maaaaybe mowed 1x/year. That's in contrast to what are basically cut hay fields or fescue plots many people in Alabama hunt over.