First come the "shakers" — tractorlike vehicles with large mechanical pincers extending from the front that grab and shake the trees, causing ripe nuts to rain down all around.

If you suspect you have pecan weevil in your residential pecan trees, contact your local County Cooperative Extension Office. Chaves County residents may contact Sandra Barraza at 575-622-3210.

Art Sanders poses for a photo in front of his 35-acre 800-tree pecan orchard Friday outside of West Point. While the trees were dormant when the photo was taken, Sanders said he had just finished ...

Michael Bowles uses his tree shaker to get the pecans to fall on the ground at the Vaughn Family Pecan Farm on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024 in Scottsburg, Ind. Clare Grant/Courier Journal ...

Container-grown trees can be planted in October through May, or in other words, now. Just remember, pecan trees can grow to about 70 feet high, so they should be planted 40 to 60 feet apart.

Hurricane Helene devastated farmers because it destroyed large nut-producing trees, some as old as 100 years old, according to Lenny Wells, a professor of horticulture at UGA who has been a pecan ...

People have tried to introduce pecan milk into the plant-based space before, with varying degrees of success. In 2014, Houston’s MALK Organics became the first brand to make pecan milk, although it ...

The Algonquin coined the term pecan from the word "pacane," which means a nut that needs to be cracked with a stone. By the 1950s, Georgia was the country's leading producer of pecans and remains ...

I’m just getting started with the things you need to know to manage your pecan trees. You can get tremendous help from the Newton County Extension office (770-784-2010) if you set up a time to ...

DALLAS (KTVT) — For decades, a pair of pecan trees have framed the front of the Bellew home in Lake Highlands. “It is a selling point for the neighborhood that there are lots of trees,” said ...