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Large pecan trees were uprooted and toppled over from Hurricane Helene winds in the early hours of Sept. 27 at Shiloh Pecan Farm near Ray City, Georgia. Farmer Buck Paulk believes up to 80% of his ...
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 ...
Mary Mikelyn Bruorton, executive director of the Georgia Pecan Growers Association, believes Hurricane Helene destroyed approximately 70% of trees that were 30 years or older, and about 40% of ...
The pecan tree is a large deciduous tree, growing to 20–40 m (66–131 ft) in height, rarely to 44 m (144 ft). [10] It typically has a spread of 12–23 m (39–75 ft) with a trunk up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) diameter. A 10-year-old sapling grown in optimal conditions will stand about 5 m (16 ft) tall.
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 ]
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.
On Oct. 3, President Joe Biden and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack visited Shiloh Pecan Farm, 15 minutes north of Valdosta in Ray City, to assess the damages from Hurricane Helene.
It is a National Bicentennial Farm. The plantation property includes a main house, a barn, a privy, a smoke house, an old kitchen, a well house, a log building, an apothecary, a store, and a house and office of Mr. Bird, as well as a pecan grove and historic oak trees. A cotton gin building is included in photographs of the property. [2] [note 1]