very little mast crop in my area

[kydog]

I've been in the wood's for a few week's now clearing logging road's and moving stand's around because of the damage left by the ice storm, what a mess. We own 50 acre's in hardin county and have access to another 250 to hunt.I've noticed the Oakes are dropping no acorn's,we've found just a few that are producing any nut's and they seen to be in the ceder thicket's. Did the ice storm have something to do with this, I wasn't sure if the Oak's produced the bud's for the following year's nut during winter or if the are produced in the spring when the leaf's are developing. The white Oakes we found are not dropping any,didn't find a single nut under any them that we found or could we see any in the tree's. Found a few red oakes dropping and they were protected in the ceder thicket's. This is what I'm seeing in my neck of the wood's anyone else noticed this, by the way the area my farm is in had about 1" of ice during the storm.

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[kyfanatic]

I don't think it has anything to do with the ice storm.We have plenty of hickories,walnuts,and red oaks here,but the white oaks seem to only have produced on a few trees,less than 50% of what normally does.
The good thing was (I say was because the tore up the producing white oaks) is the deer could be pin pointed on the white oaks that did produce,most white oak acorns are gone here already.I'm pretty sure it's just a normal cyclical acorn production thing as I've seen this every so many years.
On a side note we had a banner of soft mast crops also,plenty of wild grapes,paw paws,persimmons,apples,etc.
The wildlife here is eating well,including my pumpkin crop.

[kydog]

The persimmon tree's are bare also, I check about 15 or so and not a piece of fruit nowhere. maybe this is just in my area.
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[the_donger]

I am in Marshall county and the oaks in my yard are producing nuts like crazy.

[Tim_T]

On the little stretch of ground that I hunt here in Bullitt County the mast crop is as good as ever. Same thing when we went to Yellowbank a couple of weeks ago, seems like they were pretty good there as well.

[kydog]

I live in Bullitt county and the Oak's in the yard are dropping nut's, but down on our property there hard to come by. The farm is down around Eastview in hardin county. They got a lot more ice down there,more then we did in Bullitt. but than again I figured marshall was hit pretty hard also.
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[sglass]

I have two stands on 70 acres in morgan county and one is on a big oak flat on top of a steep ridge and there are not nearly as many oaks on the floor as I thought there should be. I however did see that the ground was tore up from turkey and deer so maybe the deer are just pigging out this year and eating them as soon as they fall. Another farm I hunt in Sadieville has a very good nut crop this year. All depends on where you are I guess.

[the_donger]

Yeah, Marshall County got crushed. I lost 7 trees in the yard and countless huge branches from various other trees. And that does not count the smaller trees that are just bent in half. Took them days to clear the road to the end of the street where I live. Luckily, I had to take the dog to the vet and I left before the wind started taking all the trees down. I had to go to 7 vets in 5 towns, starting in Calvert City, before I found one in Murray that was running a generator. Stayed in Murray for a few days then went to my parents house in Lexington and stayed for a month

[mhall]

Boys here in Oldham county if you were to stand under a nut producing tree you would probably get knocked out. The dang Walnuts are almost dangerous, lol.

[jamesdenson]

there are so many squirls where i hunt i think they eat all the acorns before they fall.