root hunters?

[ghitch75]

anyone else hunting ginseng this year?.......i have about 1/2 pound so far.......

 

[Leadeye]

Don't hunt it much, but I'm not finding beer cans and smoke packages around the property, I would imagine anything here is gone.

 

[ghitch75]

Don't hunt it much, but I'm not finding beer cans and smoke packages around the property, I would imagine anything here is gone.

i take it you have trespasser stealing your roots?

 

[Leadeye]

Between the holes and trash I found in the past I came to that conclusion, it's all gone or the neighbor who died in the trailer fire last year was the problem. Either way there's no more activity.

 

[sportsman223]

We had a patch come up missing, pretty sure know who did it. Time will tell there to stupid to keep there mouth shut
I hate thieves

 

[ghitch75]

found another 1/2 pound Thursday.....guess no root hunter in here

 

[hysteria]

What do you do with it after you find it?

 

[ChalupaCabras]

Huh... I've seen that plant my whole life, and never realized it was Ginseng. I guess I just confused its berry cluster with jack in the pulpit, and never really examined them very closely.

 

[trophy hunter]

I hunt it, have a hard time find places to hunt down here.. I also have about a 1/2 pound dryed.. whats it going for in your area?

 

[trophy hunter]

hysteria, we dry it and sell it

 

[ghitch75]

hysteria, we dry it and sell it

 

[ghitch75]

I hunt it, have a hard time find places to hunt down here.. I also have about a 1/2 pound dryed.. whats it going for in your area?

600 a pound dried....

 

[M4Madness]

I dug ginseng one year, but soon found that I could make tons more money digging goldenseal (yellow root). I can dig one dried pound of goldenseal an hour and have places I could dig as much as I felt like digging. I used to sell it for $40-42 a pound, so I haven't bothered digging it at the lesser prices I've seen the last few years.

 

[bwframe]

I dug ginseng one year, but soon found that I could make tons more money digging goldenseal (yellow root). I can dig one dried pound of goldenseal an hour and have places I could dig as much as I felt like digging. I used to sell it for $40-42 a pound, so I haven't bothered digging it at the lesser prices I've seen the last few years.

What are the lesser prices? What is ginseng bringing now?

 

[M4Madness]

What are the lesser prices? What is ginseng bringing now?

I'd say probably $18-20 a pound for dried goldenseal. I have no idea on ginseng. I only dug it one year and was lucky to get a pound out of a few hundred 3-prong or larger plants. Maybe the roots are small in my area. Lol!

 

[ghitch75]

ginseng is bring 500 a pound dried......price dropped...

 

[sportsman223]

Man I have not dug any yellow root in years, my grandpa used to dig that stuff all the time

 

[IndyGunworks]

this thread has me wanting to plant some ginseng on my property!!!

 

[sportsman223]

Big money if you find a "Ginseng Man Root", other wise lots of digging to find enough for a dried pound

 

[bwframe]

this thread has me wanting to plant some ginseng on my property!!!

Smarter folks will chime in. I bet if it was that simple, we'd all have a nice crop of ginseng, goldenseal, morels and a pond full of walleye?