BirdDog Landowner Toolkit

Hunting Marketplace

How to Write a Hunting Listing That Gets Bookings

3 minutes

Lease Marketplace

AG Lease Basics: How to Attract and Screen Farm Tenants

4 minutes

Lease Marketplace

Your First Hunting Lease: What to Include and What to Look For

If you're signing your first hunting lease as the landowner or as part of a hunting group the stakes are real. A well-written lease protects the land, the relationship, and the hunting experience.

3 minutes

Finance

Land Financing 101: What BirdDog's Finance Partners Look For

Whether you're buying more acreage, refinancing existing land, or financing improvements, agricultural land lending works differently than residential real estate. Lenders who specialize in farm and ranch finance evaluate borrowers on a different set of criteria — and knowing what they look for before applying.

4 minutes

Lease Marketplace

How to Set Up Your BirdDog Property Listing for the Lease Marketplace

Your BirdDog listing is your storefront. Hunters, ag operators, and grazing tenants will find it, read it, and decide whether to reach out — all before they ever talk to you.

4 minutes

Lease Marketplace

How to Structure a Grazing Lease on Your Ranch

A grazing lease lets you generate income from pasture while someone else manages the cattle, sheep, or other livestock. Done right, it's a straightforward arrangement.

5 minutes

Lease Marketplace

How to Vet an AG Operator and Structure a Farm Lease

Signing a farm lease with the wrong operator is a costly mistake. Equipment damage, soil compaction, input misuse, missed rent payments are some of many problems compounding quickly.

3 minutes

Lease Marketplace

How to Price Hunting Leases on Your Land

Setting the right price for a hunting lease is one of the most common challenges for new and experienced landowners alike. Price too high and you sit empty all season.

5 minutes

Platform Best Practices

Beginner's Guide: How to Activate Your Land in 5 Steps

You own land. Now what?

3 minutes

Finance

Understanding Agricultural Land Financing; How It Works and What to Expect

5 minutes

Finance

How Landowners Use Agricultural Financing — Refinancing, Building, and Entity Purchases

From refinancing ag land to financing a rural build or entity purchase — here's how agricultural land financing works across the most common use cases.

Finance

What to Have Ready Before You Apply for Agricultural Land Financing

Before you apply for agricultural land financing, know what lenders look for. Documents, ownership structure, credit — here's how to prepare once and move fast.

5 minutes

Hunting Marketplace

Beyond Hunting, 17 Ways to Make Money From Your Land on BirdDog

A guide for BirdDog landowners on diversifying beyond hunting with 17 revenue-generating experiences, from fishing and clay shooting to farm-to-table dinners, corporate retreats, and weddings. This article covers pricing principles, seasonal calendar planning, and how to get started by listing new experiences on your BirdDog profile.

6 mins

Hunting Marketplace

Managing Your Calendar — Best Practices for Availability and Bookings

A guide to managing your BirdDog calendar, explaining how availability directly controls search visibility for hunters. Covers blocking unavailable dates, aligning with hunting seasons, managing lease conflicts, syncing with external calendars, and a seasonal rhythm for keeping availability accurate year-round.

Hunting Marketplace

Your BirdDog Dashboard — Everything You Need to Know at a Glance

A walkthrough of the BirdDog operator dashboard, covering the action bar for pending tasks, performance stats like revenue and listing views, upcoming hunts and booking statuses, a real-time activity feed for messages and reviews, and top listing rankings that help operators understand what's working and where to improve.

5 Minutes

Hunting Marketplace

Your Photos Sell the Hunt: A Landowner's Guide to Listing Pictures That Book

Great hunting listings start with great photos — and you don't need a professional to take them. This guide walks landowners through exactly how to photograph their property, amenities, and animal harvests using nothing more than a smartphone. From golden-hour landscape shots to harvest photos that tell a story, these straightforward tips will help your BirdDog listing stand out, build trust with hunters, and turn views into booked hunts.

Messaging Best Practices on BirdDog

A guide for operators and landowners on how to communicate effectively through BirdDog's messaging platform. Covers why keeping conversations on-platform matters for documentation and accountability, how to respond quickly to inquiries, what to include in a strong first reply, and best practices for pre-trip and post-trip messaging that drive repeat bookings and stronger partnerships.

Hunting Marketplace

Connect Your Domain to Your BirdDog Profile

Connecting a web domain to your BirdDog profile

5 Minutes

Platform Best Practices

How to Set Up Your BirdDog Profile — From Sign-Up to Live in Minutes

Your operation already has a story. BirdDog just makes it easy to tell — and easy for hunters to find. Whether you've got a polished website or a stack of rate sheets in a filing cabinet, we'll help you build a professional profile in minutes, not days.

Read Time: 5 mins

Hunting Marketplace

Your Property Profile — Everything You Can Do From One Page

Explore the possibilities of your land on BirdDog

5 Minutes

Hunting Marketplace

How to Market Your Operation With Your BirdDog Profile

Marketing Your Operation with BirdDog

Read Time: 5 mins