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Yes Sylvia the trees were planted for timber production. They are looking into nut production, but the varieties are not specifically selected for that so prices would be for forest run nuts. All plantings total about 1500-2000 acres trees planted at about 500 per acre (my estimates). Best...

Sylvia and all, I got distracted from this site for a while. Here are answers to your most recent questions. As far as I can tell they are all from the same source. The trees are from Perdue University research. I visited with 3 of the professors from their forestry department who...

Good to hear from you Sylvia. All sites were ripped to about 3? to mark rows prior to planting. Cropping had been done for at least 15+ years with average yield for the area. All treatments following planting are identical. Only difference is cropped planting is 2 years older. Nancy says hi!

Managed the same. In row weed control done same day Cooper was planted into pasture in 2011. Harrison in 2009 in corn/soybean ground. All trees on 7’ centers in 12’ rows. Only fertilizer was this past spring with 100#N. Urea About 1 mile north and 1 mile east of Aledo IL. On southwest corner

No Jim. Just started working with company this spring. Just noticed a strong relationship between former crop land and pasture.

Good to hear from you Dave. I am thinking that the younger field got a big boost from N supplied by micro organisms in the soil that was in pasture, which was not available in the cropped land since regular fertilizing had eliminated the need for these organisms to exist in sufficient numbers...

Here is the explanation of Haney Test. It won't let me attach a .docx file. Look up at wardlab.com

As a few of you may know, I retired from the urban forestry side of things a couple of times and at age 70 decided to do what I originally studied in college in the 60's. I work for a forest management company that has several walnut plantations here in Illinois. It is interesting trying to...