Role call- ginseng prices and how its holding up
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Here in NE Iowa plants are starting to yellow. Some of them falling over. LOOKING GOOD! wiebke running 400-450 a dry lb. 150-170 green root.
Kevin Brandel
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Re: Role call- ginseng prices and how its holding up
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09/22/11 11:33 AM
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i'm not finding any seng here in my neck of the woods of central il........our seng was wilted and down a few weeks ago...then we got heavy rains last that i think finished it off.
last quote i got here last week was $400 per dried pound.
Stand by your principles, Stand by your guns, and victory complete and permanent is sure at last. Abraham Lincoln
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Re: Role call- ginseng prices and how its holding up
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09/23/11 08:39 AM
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AWESOME Don and Dave, When I am out hunting seng I often think of finding the FIELD OF DREAMS!!
Kevin Brandel
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Re: Role call- ginseng prices and how its holding up
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i havn't found any monster patches or plants this year..........but last year i found alot of knee high plants in 1 patch...not sure how much i dug in it though. heres a pic of one of knee high plants nice 4 pronger
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Re: Role call- ginseng prices and how its holding up
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you betcha don.....just when you think that big stuff don't exist anymore,,,,,,something gets found.
Stand by your principles, Stand by your guns, and victory complete and permanent is sure at last. Abraham Lincoln
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Re: Role call- ginseng prices and how its holding up
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09/23/11 11:37 AM
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WTH foxkidd UNREAL!!! U would have to drag my dead but out of there bc I would have the bigone!!!
Kevin Brandel
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Re: Role call- ginseng prices and how its holding up
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Foxkidd is that cranesbill below the ginseng?
Kevin Brandel
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Re: Role call- ginseng prices and how its holding up
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09/23/11 01:33 PM
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naw remi...not cranesbill........can't rcall the name of it.......my dad called it junkweed though.
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Re: Role call- ginseng prices and how its holding up
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Me and a friend got permission to dig on a 640 acre parcel of land back in the 90's in 3 days digging we dug 24 pounds of green root.
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Re: Role call- ginseng prices and how its holding up
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09/23/11 09:32 PM
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Love those old rotted logs Don. What a great find!
Headed out today to a big draw I've done well in before. Theres a big, flat, timber on the way with mostly regrowth timber maybe 25-30 years old. Seldom have I ever found much root in this timber over the last 10 years or so. Today there were big 4s all over the place in this stretch of regrowth. Dug 4.25 lbs on a stretch about 300 yds long by 100 yds wide. Just proves that there may be far more 'seng out there than most think. Its obvious that there are a lot of roots that lay dormant until conditions are right for that root to throw up a stalk. It sure is an incredibly interesting plant to say the least. Great reading Don and Dave.Gives a guy a little more hope in those marginal spots one hasn't had the best luck in the past.
Ah,for the life of a millionaire,say some,but just let me stay a trapper. Bill Nelson
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Re: Role call- ginseng prices and how its holding up
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09/26/11 09:37 AM
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I want a BIG DIG someday. Everytime I come over a hill I think is this going to be it.
Kevin Brandel
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Is there any other plant that looks like that or has berrys on the top and how tall do they get thanks
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Re: Role call- ginseng prices and how its holding
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09/29/11 08:24 AM
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yepper,,,the seng eye.
i've taken several folks with me thruout the years on a seng hunt....i could see seng on a ridge that was still green...about 40 yards out{ was the berrys that helped} aND i pointed out and say,,,see the seng? they say were? i say right there!!!!..........so we walk over and i say "here"............" how did you see that from way back there" they ask.........i say................" how could you not" lol!
and yep.......layin down at night close your eyes and see that beautiful yellow seng,,,that pattern just sticks in your brain.
i've often wonderd why it's the yellow that stays in my mind instead of the green...lol.
my dad always had a saying.......hunting seng is like driving a car.......you keep drivin til you see the yellow......slowwwwwwww down,,,,,,,,,when you see the red...STOP!.
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Re: Role call- ginseng prices and how its holding
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09/29/11 11:56 AM
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I love it. I thought i was the only nutcase that dreamed of the yellow seng when I slept. It DOES take a trained eye! Glad I have the trained eye!!! Haven't missed a day of senging since it opened. At least 4 hours a day. I LOVE IT! Problem is the seng eyes get tired!
Kevin Brandel
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Re: Role call- ginseng prices and how its holding
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09/29/11 06:02 PM
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At my age , 66, it ain't the eyes that start to fail. I can only do about 4-5 hrs in the woods now. My poor old back makes my legs feel like lead. I have arthur in my back and I am afraid it is just a matter of a very few short years, that my days in the woods will be comming to a close. Not a pleasant thought , but, no use lieing to myself. At least your out there,keeping on keeping on.A lot of guys much younger than you are sitting at home.This stuff gets in your blood and come heck or high water a guy keeps plugging along.
Ah,for the life of a millionaire,say some,but just let me stay a trapper. Bill Nelson
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Re: Role call- ginseng prices and how its holding
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09/30/11 08:19 AM
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well ty don.......i really appreciate the comment.......i'll agree with you in saying there are some top notch fellas on here. fellas that have prob forgot more stuff than i'll ever know.
Stand by your principles, Stand by your guns, and victory complete and permanent is sure at last. Abraham Lincoln
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Re: Role call- ginseng prices and how its holding
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Don, IMPRESSIVE!! Keep it up. I have learned alot on the wildcrafting forum from everyone and STILL learning. It is exciting to know that there is other GEEKS like myself that run the woods at all seasons with a bow, trap or something to dig with. AND at 66 good for you Don. If any of you guys get up to Northeast Iowa and wanna run around the woods let me know!
Kevin Brandel
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