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4,100 acre Shiloh Pecan Farms was one of hundreds that face disastrous loss for years to come. Up to 50,000 acres of pecan orchards in Georgia are compromised from the storm, according to Sen. Jon ...
Experts now believe Helene damaged about one-third of the state's pecan production area. An estimated 75%, or more than 36 million pounds, of this year's crop in the storm-affected region has been ...
Taylor Moses was awake all night when Hurricane Helene landed on her pecan farm in Georgia. Moses said she and her husband, Arren, knew the hurricane would take a toll on their 800 acres of pecan ...
In the 1930s, with a Model A Ford coupe borrowed from a friend and $35 borrowed from his grandmother, W.S. Stuckey Sr., drove around the Eastman, Georgia countryside buying pecans from local farmers and selling them to pecan processors. [3] Stuckey made over $4,500 his first year in the pecan business.
Pelham is a city in Mitchell County, Georgia, United States. The population was 3,507 at the 2020 census, [2] down from 3,898 in 2010. Pelham is well known for its agriculture, with vast farming of cotton and pecans in the area. [5]
Described as a "generational loss", pecan farms in many areas were wiped out. [7] The Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Georgia estimated that the pecan crop suffered $100 million in direct losses, with another $260 million in direct losses associated with damage to pecan trees. [126]
Tift eventually expanded into turpentine and barrel-making operations, and turned his barren timberlands into farms for cotton, corn, livestock, fruit, tobacco, pecans and sweet potatoes. When the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway intersected the Brunswick and Western Railroad near Tift's mill in 1888, the settlement was connected to Atlanta ...
The Elliot Pecan, or Elliott Pecan, is a pecan variety planted predominantly in Georgia and Florida. The nut is distinguishable by its smooth shell and small, tear-drop shape. [ 1 ] The first Elliot tree was a seedling in the lawn of the American lumberman Henry Elliot in Milton, Florida . [ 2 ]