When I think of average years, I am thinking of varying degrees of boom years (wide spectrum there). Our place has a plethora of different oak varieties. Mainly mountain chestnut oaks and white oaks. Our reds are starting to wither away. Most years we have a good mountain chestnut production, with varying degrees of whites. I hear many folks say deer don't eat mountain chestnut oaks, but they sure do where we are.

The 2 scenarios I previously mentioned are the only scenarios we have seen on our place in 25 years, and they happened on back to back years . Who knows, but anything considered average on those other 23 years I'll take. They've been great, other than big ehd outbreak years.