Indiana Black Walnuts

Bob Kerr · Jul 25, 2016

Was wondering if anyone in Indiana has any black walnuts on their trees this year. One of our sidelines is buying and hulling black walnuts for a company in Missouri. 16 trees on our place and only 1 has any nuts at all. Looked at a place near Zionsville last weekend and saw zero on their 20 trees. We had a 3 week long cold snap last spring that may have cooked our goose this year nut harvest wise. How is it looking where you are? Be sure to say what town you are in. We are near Atlanta, IN.

4520BW · Jul 25, 2016

Not sure about this year but we have several tress that are always loaded. The only problem is getting to them with corn. I will try to look and see for you. I am about an hour south of Indy.

jimg.allentown · Jul 25, 2016

I am in the Lehigh Valley area of southeastern PA. Black walnut trees in this area seem to have normal amount of nuts on them.

Bill in IL · Jul 25, 2016

On the western side of your state near Peoria, IL we have the normal amount of black walnuts hanging from the trees.

GeneMO · Jul 25, 2016

You taking the walnuts to Stockton? I am in Central MO. Gathering walnuts was one of the ways we always made our "Christmas Money" in the 60's. That along with trapping and selling fur.

Seems like we dont have the walnuts like we use to , but then nobody seems to take time to work like that either.

Gene

Paul Shuler · Jul 25, 2016

I'm in southwest MO and we seem to have a lot of walnuts this year. We also have a lot of web worms on the walnut trees.

Bob Kerr · Jul 25, 2016

Yep! Stockton! Hammons. Although they send a semi up here to pick them up. My wifes family is from around Joplin, Carthage, Granby and Avilla area. Her cousin is one of the largest nut buyers for them in the US. He is in Carthage and hauls them to Stockton in a triaxle dump truck. The Hammons folks are great people!

GeneMO · Jul 25, 2016

My cousin manages the local COOP, they buy for Hammons, there are buying stations in two or three other locations in the county.

Of course the gunstock people are famous for Missouri walnut gunstocks.

I have about 20 to 25 logs I need to harvest. Haven't kept up with the walnut prices though. Not sure if this is a good time or not.

Gene

Bob Kerr · Jul 25, 2016

You guys have a lot of hullers down there. Indiana has a bunch also. Illinois doesn't have hardly any. The County I live in (Hamilton) has been famous for it's walnut trees since pioneer days. Our road is lined with them! I am afraid this is going to be a lean year for us locally. I use the money we make to pay our taxes with.

Bob Kerr · Jul 25, 2016

Are you near La Russell? I know they have a Coop there that is a buyer.

4520BW · Jul 25, 2016

so do you sell the nuts with the hulls?

Steve A W · Jul 25, 2016

I'm in Northwest Indiana, up near the sand dunes.
Judging by what blew out of the trees this last storm,
were lookin normal.
I wish I could find someone to pick them out of the yard.
My girls lost interest after the first year we were here.
We've got three trees, not enough to harvest but enough
to be a pain in the neck.

Steve A W

Dean · Jul 25, 2016

Normal here in SE IN.

Dean

D beatty · Jul 25, 2016

I live in LaPorte county and and some trees are loaded and others have nothing. I have one in my yard that is 20 foot tall and was loaded last year and nothing this year.

Stan - Florida · Jul 25, 2016

Bob,

Can't help on the walnuts. I grew up northeast of Fishers when it was 500 folks.

Mike M · Jul 25, 2016

Now I'm going to have to go out back and look up ! and report back. LOL. Here in central Ohio I have several Black Walnut trees. Most are little. An Amish fellow runs an ad every fall looking to buy them so much a pound in the shell. They have a machine they run them thru to get the outer cover off before weighing. Years past some trees do better than others. They seem to alternate ? Last year was a bumper crop. I quit messing around picking them up. I notice the squirrel population doing better since I leave them lay. Hard to walk on the ground though and my mower deck gets shell blasted off.

TGIN · Jul 25, 2016

I'm like Mike, I'm going to have to go look. I'm in southeast Indiana, did see a small tree close here that had several. What's a bucket full bring ?

Bob Kerr · Jul 25, 2016

I grew up in Allisonville when it was about 5 houses. Hi former Neighbor! One of my distant cousins used to drive cattle right down 116th street in Fishers when it was 500 people.

Bob Kerr · Jul 25, 2016

We take the hulls off. I use a Model H JD spreader to scatter the hulls around. Pull the spreader with a 51 Farmall H, and 50 M, and this year Dads old 53 TO30 Fergie. Which ever one is feeling up to the job at the time. I try not to use the M much, kind of a gas hog for that job.

Bob Kerr · Jul 25, 2016

Those little nuts make for heavy bags after I hull them! 50-55 lb are not uncommon where large nuts bags weigh 48-52 lbs. Last year I chucked bags that heavy from 9 am to dark every day, sometimes with no more than a 10 min break all day. About killed me!

Bob Kerr · Jul 25, 2016

We paid $14 per hundred lbs last year. Doesn't take long to get a bucket full with a Nut Wizard tool! About 1 min to fill if you hustle. 1.5 min to fill if you take your time. I think last year I figured if you hustle you can pick up $60 of nuts in an hour.

2x4 · Jul 26, 2016

Mid Tenn. & I'm already seeing walnuts in the county road.

GeneMO · Jul 26, 2016

My wife is at an Agri-Missouri event right now in St. Louis, they have been touring Ag business the last few days. The Hammons family is riding with her on the tour bus.

Gene

Mike M · Jul 26, 2016

Some trees had some on them but they are pretty small yet. Other trees I didn't see much ?

Stan - Florida · Jul 26, 2016

Any relation to Franklin (deceased) and Archie?

Bob Kerr · Jul 26, 2016

Franklin was my Grandpa. Arch is my Uncle. Ally Smith was the cattle driver. If I remember right. Distant cousin somehow.

Stan - Florida · Jul 26, 2016

Small world, eh? I've gotten to know Archie in the past few years. My brother is in a tractor club there in Hamilton County and he has introduced us. We hooked up at the Florida Flywheelers show and I've stopped by his house a couple of times but he's never there. I drove his Farmall 300 in the 'parade' at Conner Prairie a few years ago. I know his neighbor across the road (Joe Reynolds) pretty well, and Joe always tells me about my dad picking him up out at the corner of 116th St, and Highway 37 when he was hitchhiking home from WW II.

I remember the Allie Smith name, but I don't think I ever knew him.

Stan Huff

Bob Kerr · Jul 27, 2016

It is a small world!I have known Joe for years. Like him a lot. That 300 was Grandpas originally. All I remember about Allie was he always wore overalls and was BIG! I wasn't even in school yet the last time I saw him at Dads old Marathon Station in Allisonville back in the late 60s.

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