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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
The town of San Saba, Texas claims to be "The Pecan Capital of the World" and is the site of the "Mother Tree" (c. 1850) considered to be the source of the state's production through its progeny. [47] [48] Alabama named the pecan the official state nut in 1982. [49] Arkansas adopted it as the official nut in 2009. [50]
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.
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 ]