Texas settlers looked around them and saw, on the banks of almost every river and stream, pecan groves that seemed to stretch into infinity. Without compunction they chopped the trees down to grow ...
Over the last 50 years, Georgia has lost 70% of its pecan trees, having a profound impact on farmers. A pecan tree takes 20 to 25 years to reach its full production potential. Some experts ...
Recommended Videos FORT STOCKTON — Zachary Swick plucked a pecan from one of the 78,000 trees at a sprawling West Texas farm — a rare sight in the desert known for oil rigs and pump jacks.
BROOKS COUNTY — Vance Hiers beams with pride when describing the organized rows of pristine pecan trees that have stretched across his family’s South Georgia farm for decades. Then Hurricane ...
Instead, they're assessing damage and documenting losses. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says pecan trees are usually first to blow over when a tropical storm passes through. Arren and Taylor ...
I had a relatively minor limb cut from my pecan tree less than one year ago. Now there seems to be a very large amount of bark falling from the trunk following recent winds. I don’t know that it ...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Pecan trees need a lot of water. It’s important to continue the watering through harvest, says Tim Hartmann with Texas A&M AgriLife. “We know the pecans need ...
During the festival, attendees may harvest pecans from the pecan grove, one of Virginia's largest and oldest. RBC has nearly 1,000 pecan trees on its grounds. At the day of family fun, there will be ...
Just after midnight on Sept. 27, the fast-moving Hurricane Helene wiped out thousands of pecan trees and tens of thousands of pounds of pecans from Buck Paulk’s 4,100-acre pecan orchard in south ...