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Helene, however, hit the pecan industry's foundation by kicking over, bending and uprooting thousands of trees - some more than 100 years old - that may never again bear nuts. Georgia claims the ...
Outside of Georgia, there are other pecan-producing states like New Mexico that can supplement consumer demand, according to Brad Rubin, a sector manager at Wells Fargo’s Agri-Food Institute.
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.
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 ...
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 ]
Clay Creek, which is 7.29 miles (11.73 km) long, [1] and which joins Cane Creek at State Route 9/State Route 52, drains a significant portion of the west of the sub-watershed before joining Cane Creek, and picks up Peggy Branch and Scott Branch, as well as two unnamed branches, along the way.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
A post office called Pecan was established in 1889, and remained in operation until 1906. [2] Pecan is located within a pecan -growing region, hence the name. [ 3 ]