Any one Want to be my Neighbor.
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Steve Bartylla
5 year old buck +
Well, I for one am pulling for ya....sounds like I'd have a sweet gig
j-bird
Moderator
Wisc ain't the only one going to give you a call should they ever hit the lottery! Might cost me a bit more though since I'm not from the Nort!:D
Steve Bartylla
5 year old buck +
Well, you gentlemen (I know, using that term a bit too loosely, but I'd be working for you so I better get used to it) best start taking winning the lottery a bit more seriously, then. Winning the lottery is going to take some serious dedication on your parts, and I'd advise sparing no expense. Heck, dumping anything less than 10K per drawing probably isn't going to cut it (and 10K per drawing probably wouldn't either, but nothing risked nothing gained).
As a side note, I've always struggled with answering the great ?: am I making a mistake by never playing the lottery/never giving myself any chance of being independently wealthy at all, or is it those that spend their money on such ridiculously long odds, but actually have a chance (extremely slim, but still far better chance than me) at being stupid rich? I can never make up my mind on that one.
As a side note, I've always struggled with answering the great ?: am I making a mistake by never playing the lottery/never giving myself any chance of being independently wealthy at all, or is it those that spend their money on such ridiculously long odds, but actually have a chance (extremely slim, but still far better chance than me) at being stupid rich? I can never make up my mind on that one.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
My odds of winning on the lottery are very good. Well at least my odds of coming out even as I have never bought a ticket.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
BLB-Look how great things are for our money. Our governor has it figured out. Raise taxes, get a surplus, and then figure out how to spend it.
And you could have things much better with a different wildlife manager....Let's Make a Deal.
Terrific_tom
5 year old buck +
The buyer of the land across the road is going to turn it into a Ginseng farm. I wonder what that will do to the deer hunting in my area.
wiscwhip
5 year old buck +
You could potentially have a bunch of trespassers trying to sneak into his place during the middle of the night to try and steal the ginseng. It happens more often than folks think, that is some high dollar stuff. Don't really know what that would do to the deer on your place?
Terrific_tom
5 year old buck +
The open fields are a 1/4 mile from road and my land. If any thing maybe it will keep more deer on my land. Also there won't be any food plots over there any more so after the surrounding field crops are harvested my food plots should be a magnet. I guess time will tell.
Terrific_tom
5 year old buck +
Foggy Marathon county next county over from where my land is located is the biggest ginseng producer in the US. From what I have read the crop makes 50 to 70 thousand per acre. It takes 3 years before it can be harvested and is labor intensive.
foggy
5 year old buck +
We had a few guys that were Ginseng fanatics when I lived in So MN......along the MN River bottoms. They seemed to do OK.....but I never thought they actively grew it. Lots of secrets and mystery around Ginseng.
j-bird
Moderator
Well actually I have been struck by lightning, sort of, so I figure that should increase my chances!!!! I figure I if I don't play I can't win. I drop an $20 when they get stupid high and dream - just like everyone else.
If Tom's neighbor grow 'sing, wont the deer have better joint health????
It takes a lot of root to make it worth a persons trouble - I was told not too long ago that it would take a bread sack full of root to be worth maybe $200 once dried and you have to deal with the whole "middle man" issue as well. I had some on my place before the logging but not enough to really worry about. I got enough "crazy things" to do - digging up roots just ain't on that list at the moment. If I got to choose between a good 'sing area of a strong understory - I'll take the understory every time! The area on my place that had the 'sing was pretty poor deer habitat.
Steve Bartylla
5 year old buck +
K now a couple of ginseng farmers and a couple others that are fanatics about finding in the wild, but I'm not sure I know enough to even be considered dangerous on the subject.
The one thing I picked up on is that it's sort of like the fur market in that the traits that command the highest prices keep changing and those in the most demand always seems to be the traits that you have the least of in your collection.
The one thing I picked up on is that it's sort of like the fur market in that the traits that command the highest prices keep changing and those in the most demand always seems to be the traits that you have the least of in your collection.
Terrific_tom
5 year old buck +
Over the weekend I stopped in by the neighbors who sold the property. I sort of knew how the property was laid out but got to see a bunch of it 1st hand on Saturday. This was truly a deer hunters paradise. The way the property is laid out made it very easy to access stands with any wind direction. They had trails thru out the property. I did notice that they had a lot of stands set to catch the deer traveling to my food plots. It was also amazing to see that the bucks that I had on my property were also showing up on their cameras. It is a shame that this property is going to be used for growing ginseng but I truly believe that the hunting will be better on my property. On a side note I picked up a tree stand and several other things for a really good price at their hunting rummage sale. I know that the family that owned the property were saddened by the fact that they had sold the place. Who knows maybe I can get permission to hunt the place from the new owner.
