TIFTON, GA - Georgia is the largest pecan producing state in the U.S. Although this humid region receives an average of 127 cm or more rainfall annually, periods of moisture stress can occur during ...

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 lots of ...

El Paso Matters reported that rising temperatures and increased drought are harming farmers' pecan trees. The drought shrinks ...

Lots of folks want to know how to get their pecan tree to produce a crop each year. Unfortunately, it’s not practical or even realistic. Afterall, commercially produced pecans are mostly grown in ...

There are a lot of things to keep in mind for pecan tree care in the spring. Right now is the time to consider a foliar zinc spray and nitrogen fertilizer application, make plans for irrigation, and ...

By Jeremy Miller for High Country News and the Food and Environmental Reporting Network. Broadcast version by Roz Brown for ...

Ten years after asking the state to stop new agricultural growth in San Simon, the valley's biggest pecan growers are filing ...

Pecans are beautiful native shade trees that also make a delicious, healthy food; they are very popular in the Concho Valley and many of the questions that come into the Extension Office revolve ...

It’s the holiday season, and pecan growers just can’t seem to get enough of their nuts. Whether in pecan pie, butter pecan cake, pecan toffee, pecan bars, pralines, chocolate chip pecan cookies, pecan ...

Q. I need some advice on splitting bark on my pecan trees. Trunks are estimated 14-inch diameter, some are splitting 4 and 5 feet in vertical length right up the side of the tree. I can see the “tree” ...

Those fast-growing shade trees all have serious fatal flaws that make them messy, weak, ugly, and risky. Most of us wouldn’t put those words in our list of attributes when we went shopping for a new ...

Our local farmers markets may slow down a bit during the months of October and November, but pecan season is just starting. The pecan’s storied past predates our country’s founding, yet pecans have ...