Talk:Bumper crop

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I work in US agriculture and have never encountered this phrase used by anyone associated with farming. I have seen it exclusively in general newspaper articles. It would be helpful to have some documentation that the term really is still used somewhere in the agricultural arena. Phytism (talk) 18:37, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Biology of bumper crops

Bumper crops are a phenomenon with certain wild plants, such as acorns, which conspire to "overproduce" in certain years so that there will be more nuts than squirrels can eat. The benefit is that squirrels still bury many of the nuts, burying much more than they will consume. Combined with the usual squirrel forgetfulness, this means lots of the buried nuts will become trees.

I don't have citations on any of that. But I recall a Scientific American article from like 20 years ago. At the very least this page should list some wild plants which produce bumper crops. I'm sure there have been scientific studies of some of them!

Just recording my thoughts, hopefully I come fix this later. 2601:404:C800:5660:8511:6D86:162A:CC44 (talk) 16:03, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]