How is your mast crop looking this year?

koger · July 17, 2011, 07:34:00 PM

I have been looking around the farm, and local woods where I hunt, looks like a bumper crop of acorns again this year. Maybe not as good as last year, but a darn good one. How is it looking for everyone else. Sam.

BUFF · July 17, 2011, 08:07:00 PM

It has not rained here in east Texas, to amount to anything, since last Sept. The oak trees are about dead, dropping their leaves. No acorns this year going to be a tuff year for the deer as most everything they eat is dead

SS Snuffer · July 17, 2011, 09:02:00 PM

Sure wish I could send you guys some water, got 6 1/2 in. that we did not need Fri.
Not global warming but whatever it is I wish it would straighten out!!

7 Lakes · July 17, 2011, 09:29:00 PM

All the White Oaks and Chestnut Oaks I fertilize each year have a bumper crop. Others not so good.

eidsvolling · July 17, 2011, 09:46:00 PM

Looks like a poor crop of acorns this year in our part of central NH, but I haven't checked thoroughly. OTOH, the beechnuts and hazelnuts are going like gangbusters.

The situation in Texas and other areas affected by the drought is ominous, perhaps extremely so: Drought: A Creeping Disaster . My sympathies to all those affected.

bolong · July 17, 2011, 09:52:00 PM

It's not looking good in my part of southwest Arkansas due to the severe drought wh have had this summer.

texbow2 · July 17, 2011, 09:52:00 PM

Very ugly in central texas,could lose some oaks like we did in 2000. Hate to burden the coast, but we need a hurricane

TxAg · July 17, 2011, 10:13:00 PM

Lots of mesquite beans, but gona be short on acorns. Not sure what the pecans are gona do...all the ones on our place are right by the creek.

RC · July 17, 2011, 10:32:00 PM

Found a few persimmons that are already turning pink, no muscadines in my honey holes this year. Very few crabapples. I did find a few swamp Chestnut oaks loaded as well as a lot of Water oaks.....and for the first time in about 4 years my Uncle planted peanuts in a small field near my house I can hunt.It had a few deer in it this evening. Only problem is poachers shine it often and our Game wardens are stretched over several counties each. Bright side is every year he plants peanuts in the field I get a spring gobbler from it. Its been raining a little and maybe it will keep it up a bit. Its been awful dry here.RC

Night Wing · July 17, 2011, 10:44:00 PM

With the drought in Texas where I live, there are no acorns on our live or willow oaks in our yard.

Richard in OK · July 17, 2011, 11:01:00 PM

We've had daily temps of 100 + for more days than I can remember, and virtually no rain since may. We got about 1 1/2" when the tornados went through, and another inch a couple of weeks later. Even the weeds are dying, and the grass sounds like rice crispies when you step on it. Still, there seems to be plenty of food for deer. I saw a large, healthy doe two nights ago.

Richard

COOCH · July 18, 2011, 07:47:00 AM

The oaks I've seen are producing very well not a bumper crop like last year but doing very well.

My apple trees are over burdened with fruit It's a great year for the soft mast.

July 18, 2011, 08:31:00 AM

Upstate NY-- from what I can tell, the apples are the ticket this year-- heavy on the trees after a year or two of not much. Acorns should be light this year, but beechnuts may be making a comeback after several bleak years.

KentuckyTJ · July 18, 2011, 09:55:00 AM

Finding the same here Sam.

sweeney3 · July 18, 2011, 10:07:00 AM

We haven't had a stitch of rain since everything flooded in April/early May. The bulk of the summer has been very hot and dry. Our mast doesn't look too good. I'm about to dry up the pond trying to keep food plots and the garden (which has kind of turned into a food plot :rolleyes: ) alive.

Bill Carlsen · July 18, 2011, 01:40:00 PM

Beech nuts look good....oaks, not so good. Lots of apples.

Shawn Leonard · July 18, 2011, 06:57:00 PM

Lots of beechnuts but the deer here do not hit them hard, some oaks are loaded others not so much. I would say average year for oaks and apple trees are loaded! Shawn