jwr
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Post by jwr on Apr 27, 2015 16:49:09 GMT -5
My neighbor is working up some mayapple root. He said some guy in indiana is paying $4 dry. Is there a market for much of it. Seems easy enough to work up.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Apr 27, 2015 17:26:03 GMT -5
I doubt you could make minimum wage on it. probably 1-2 dollars an hour. all but 4-5 root species are like that.
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jwr
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Post by jwr on Apr 27, 2015 20:05:09 GMT -5
That's what I figured. Thanks bob
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Apr 28, 2015 4:53:37 GMT -5
I`ve dug yellowroot and in huge football field size patches with easy dirt where you van hoe it up and them pick thru the loose dirt for the root a guy can make $15-20 an hr, bloodroot it goes down to maybe $6-8 and hr., if in the same type digging and quantity. seng well we all know it`s good, if you can find it and it`s not some guys intentionally raised patch. everything else is just for fun and if you have to drive to it doubt you could even make gas money back. that`s my experience. it`s still good to know all the roots and where to find them. a guy never knows what the future may be. seems every time I go to the woods I find something of value and see and learn new things. maybe some arrowheads, maybe a good trapping spot, maybe that super berry patch, or some mushrooms I can sell. last week my wife found a nice winter kill deer skull and horns.
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Post by jwr on Apr 28, 2015 10:11:18 GMT -5
We're pulling smartweed now. Burned a pile yesterday the size of 2 pickups. Wish there was a smartweed market. Lillypads are next on the list. 2 acres of that crap.
I need to find a list of what does sell.
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Post by doyleflory on Apr 28, 2015 10:50:15 GMT -5
There was a market for waterlilly roots
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Post by furbuy46 on Apr 28, 2015 16:03:45 GMT -5
I am paying 4.00 a lb. on mayapple. Actually, mayapple dries pretty heavy. Probably one of the better wet to dry ratio roots. It also dries pretty darn fast./
Bloodroot was a good paying root up until this season. I bought bloodroot last season from 14 to 18 a dry pound. The 18 was late in the season and now I can't get a price for me to buy it at.
Last season I had a contract on yellow dock tops. They don't pay much per pound but a guy or gal can make some fair money picking the tops. I bough a little less than a ton of it last year and some of my pickers made just under a 100.00 a day picking tops. Last year it was worth 1.00 a dry pound to my pickers. You wait until the tops are brown and dry in late July and pick them.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Apr 28, 2015 16:28:24 GMT -5
you need to get a market for burdock roots and tops and send all your pickers to my place and anywhere I trap coyotes. I`ve dug poke root back in the day and some big as a gallon jug. think it was poke and not dock. been a long time. yellow dock root use to be 75 cents at one time and they are like big carrots. get around old livestock barns and a guy can dig a lot fast if the ground is wet and soft. in rotted manure piles you could just pull it out. still tough way to make a buck.
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Post by furbuy46 on Apr 29, 2015 0:04:14 GMT -5
Yellow dock root is 1.50. It needs cut up to dry right.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Apr 29, 2015 4:44:32 GMT -5
that 1.50 is not that bad a price. seems to me it was kind of woody and drys heavy. when you`d find a patch it was a lot. see those red seed head tops from a long way off come late summer. most roots are like trapping , lot of work, and the profit is near zilch if a truck is involved ( vehicle/milage). srtill nice to know a guy can go out and make $ and be his own boss and work as much or little as he wants. maybe we can get all those in baltimore complaining they can`t find a job to dig dock. I see it growing in vacant city lots . lol, ya sure, they`d dig roots...
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