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SEGUIN, Texas (KXAN) — At his farm 38 Pecans in Seguin, Mark Walls nervously inspects the 2,700 trees on his 500 acres of land. A vast majority are pecans, and dozens didn’t make it. After a ...

Pecan trees take around 10-plus years to start producing pecans, and even then, Bruorton said, the early yields can’t match the production of the mature trees lost in the storm.

FORT STOCKTON — Zachary Swick plucked a pecan from one of the 78,000 trees at a sprawling West Texas farm — a rare sight in the desert known for oil rigs and pump jacks.

There, 45,000 pecan trees have been planted, with more on the way. It all began with Keith Walden, who died in 2002. The son of a banker who also owned a citrus grove, Keith began farming cotton ...

He planted the pecan trees on their 24-acre property that spring. While their love bloomed quickly, the orchard would take much longer to grow. Pecan trees aren’t short-term investments.

HAWKINSVILLE, Ga. — When Hurricane Michael heaved through Georgia five years ago, it damaged farms across the state, including trees at King Springs Pecan Farm in Hawkinsville.

Michael knocked down about 1,100 trees on Vance Hiers’ farm. Pecan trees take six to seven years before they’re ready for production, and many of those he replanted in Michael’s wake were ...

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 ...