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Looks like a heavy crop this year

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  1. lukem

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    My apple trees are pretty sparse this year. Last year they had unbelievable yield. I guess they wore themselves out.
     
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  2. Boog

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    I noticed that I do not have a single walnut visible this year on the medium sized tree of mine.
     
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    My walnut trees are going to be full this year. I haven't checked the acorns yet but I am hoping there is a good crop for the deer and squirrel season. The apple trees don't have much happening this year.
     
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    Acorns seem to be heavy here this year too, but as usual it's in patches here and there, especially the white oaks.....let's hope that's the case, the mountain deer will be a tad more predictable pre-rut.
     
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    Dennis, the red oak I took apart with a buddy last weekend was also loaded with acorns. Gonna sound like WW3 around here when they start falling and hitting my neighbor's rooftops and steel sheds.....

    A couple of the bigger dairy operations here have gotten good at squeezing 3 or 4 cuttings off their fields. They need a good early spring for 4 tho and we did not see that this year.
     
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    The couple of red oak branches that I picked up this morning that came off during yesterday's storm didn't have any acorns forming on them. I do know it can go in cycles. As I recall we did have a bumper crop last year.
     
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  7. Backwoods Savage

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    Ya, I can hardly wait for them to start dropping on our steel roofed shed. They sometimes start dropping in July here, that is, the red oaks. Whites wait until October.
     
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    Record crop of acorns,apples,black walnuts last year,hickory nuts pretty good too,best year since 2008 for them.So this year should be much less,though I have seen a few walnuts that blew out of trees in recent storms - 2/3rds normal size already with 3 months til they are mature.Lots will be empty I have a feeling.
     
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    My Apple tree is loaded this year, was pretty bare last year... Then my neighbors walnut tree is Fully loaded, I've never seen his limbs so low to the grown...
     
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    Hay yields have been average for me. 1 more field and 2nd cutting alfalfa will be done. Saw a shagbark tree that was loaded yesterday.
     
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    I have noticed another year of tons of walnuts as well. Last year we had the most we have seen and it looks as though we may have more this year.
     
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    Pete, keep your eye out for apples. We'll be needing some come fall. Have to make that cider press work.
     
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