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GOOD PEOPLE MAKE IT HAPPEN

I learned long ago there are three things essential to the success of any business: people, people and people. All the technology, all the money and all the business smarts cannot replace GOOD PEOPLE.

I could never have built the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society and see it grow into a world-wide organization with more than 500,000 members without surrounding myself with outstanding, motivated people with a fire in their gut to make things happen. The same has happened with the Whitetail Institute.

Thanks to a dedicated staff, the Institute is growing year by year, exerting a positive influence upon hunters, land managers, and the whitetail environment. Our staff has never lost sight of our primary mission — to develop top-quality whitetail through improved nutrition and management and consequently improve hunting for outdoorsmen everywhere. Everyone at our headquarters has made it happen — from renowned agronomist Dr. Wiley Johnson working with his tiny clover seeds to Derrick Ford who sees the final product out the warehouse door.

Our Operations Sales Manager William Cousins worked as a college student on my farm and joined up as one of the very first employees at the Institute. He knows farming and hunting inside and out. Every staff member has a story and every member is vital to the success of our unique enterprise.

I hope you’ll take the time to meet everyone listed below. I am especially proud of our Product Consultant Staff who have done such a magnificent job dealing with our customers and field testers across the country. Our senior consultants, J.B. Smith and John White talk to deer hunters and land managers everyday. With many years of experience between them, they have gathered invaluable information for our own use and for the benefit of other hunters. Whether you’re a first-time hunter/manager with a question about soil samples or a veteran who manages thousands of acres of hunting land, these men are here to answer your questions and help you design a management plan that will meet your personal needs.

The next time you pick up the phone, hopefully you’ll have a better idea of who and what is at the other end of the line. We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Ray Scott

Ray Scott
Founder and President
He pursues excellence in hunting just as he did in fishing. And just as he became fascinated with improving the fishing environment and the quality of fishing, he became equally determined to improve the quality of deer and deer hunting in his home state of Alabama.
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Wilson Scott
Vice President of Operations
Wilson especially enjoys dealing with the customers and the salesmen in the industry. He notes “Customers are always in a good mood. It seems that no matter what is going on in their personal life, when they start talking about hunting, they just forget their problems.”
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Steve Scott
Vice President
If hunting is in the genes, Steve Scott is living proof. Steve shares his father’s love of both fishing and hunting, especially hunting. He has traveled across the U.S. in pursuit of whitetail and especially likes hunting in the Midwest and stalking squirrels with his two young boys.
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William Cousins
Director of Operations
As Director of Operations, William manages the operations of the company & still works close with distributors & dealers as needed.
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Justin Moore
Wildlife Biologist
rowing up in a small town, such as Finger Tennessee, farming was a way of life for my family. In most ways we lived off the land and the food that it provided for us.
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Matt Harper
Deer Nutrition Consultant
Matt is a graduate of Iowa State University where he received a degree in Animal Science with a special focus and advanced study in ruminant nutrition. While at Iowa State, he also conducted research on forage utilization by ruminants and even had specific studies in whitetail deer genetics.
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Mark Trudeau
National Sales Manager
Field Product Specialist
Mark Trudeau, a life-long hunter and outdoorsman, has been a professional farmer for over thirty years, long before he joined The Whitetail Institute as one of its very first Field Testers in 1988.
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Brent Camp
Nutrition Director
When he joined the Institute, Brent was recently retired as CEO and Nutrition Director at V.M.S. in Montgomery, an international company specializing in animal nutrition and animal drugs all over the world. In the course of his impressive 18-year career at V.M.S., Camp had expanded his company’s product line to include supplemental nutrition products for wild game in the U.S.
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Steffani Hood
Office Manager
A country girl and nature lover all her life, Steff enjoys working at the Institute and especially likes looking out the window to see deer grazing the clover and bass jumping in a nearby pond. It makes her feel good to know that what she does helps many hunters and land managers in a direct and/or indirect way.
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J.B. Smith
Product Consultant
Consulting with customers is about as natural as breathing for J.B. because he practices what he preaches. He particularly enjoys teaching new managers the basics of planting. “There are no dumb questions as far as I’m concerned,” he says.
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John White
Product Consultant
John relishes being in touch with other hunters across the U.S. “They learn from me and I learn from them,” he says. And that’s a lot of learning because John has almost grown up with the Institute, going on almost 13 years as a consultant.
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Jon Cooner
Director of Special Projects
Jon Cooner is a life-long hunter and shooter. He was introduced to hunting as a young boy in the dove fields of south Alabama by his grandfather, and he remains active in a broad variety of hunting and shooting sports.
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Greg Aston
Mid-South Regional Sales Manager
Most recently before joining the Institute, Greg worked in a farm-supply store in Tennessee, where he exercised the opportunity his position gave him to try out every food-plot and deer-nutrition product on the market. “When it comes to the food-plot blends offered by our farm-supply store, I can truly say that I’ve tried them all, and Whitetail Institute products consistently outperform all the others.
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John Buhay
Director of Sales
John Buhay is The Whitetail Institute's Representative for the Northeastern United States. His substantial previous experience in sales was an invaluable asset to him when he joined The Institute's sales team in 2003.
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Bart Landsverk
Whitetail News Editor-in-Chief
Bart broke into the outdoor industry in 1989 as a newspaper editor. After working two years at a weekly he took a position as a sports and outdoor editor of a larger newspaper. From that experience he landed a position as the assistant editor of Deer & Deer Hunting magazine. After working for nearly three years at Deer & Deer Hunting, Bart started at Scales Advertising as an account executive and media buyer.
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Mary Jones
Internet Customer Service Manager
Mary has been with the Whitetail Institute for two years and takes care of all Internet customers. She has been instrumental in helping develop the company’s online order services, loves to hunt and knows more about deer nutrition than many seasoned deer hunters.
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Marlin Swain
Shipping Manager

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