Grafting pecans became popular after an enslaved man named Antoine who lived on a Louisiana plantation successfully produced ...
Lots of folks want to know how to get their pecan tree to produce a crop each year. Unfortunately, it’s not practical or even realistic. Afterall, commercially produced pecans are mostly grown in ...
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 summer of ...
Texas pecan growers are preparing for the 2025 harvest season with a crop outlook that reflects the state’s diversity in weather and geography, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service ...
Belding Farms General Manager Zachary Swick poses for a portrait at the farm on Sept. 23, 2024, in Fort Stockton. The farms dispute over exporting water comes as the states population booms and water ...
HOUSTON — Texas weather can feel like a roller coaster, swinging from arctic blasts to spring-like warmth in just days. As temperatures rise, many Texans are left wondering: Is winter finally over?
LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - I was at Mrs. Hattie’s home in Lufkin many years ago, admiring her productive pecan trees. She had two pecan trees. One in the front yard and another in the back yard. Both were ...
Winston Millican, the fifth-generation owner of Millican Pecan farm, knows hundreds of his 10,000 pecan trees individually, from the size of their last crop to the health of particular branches—a feat ...
Sebastian has lived in San Antonio for 30 years. She's familiar with Brackenridge Park's reputation as a prime pecan-picking ...
I’m hit with a familiar scent breezing through the car window as I drive into San Saba, Texas. You can smell a pecan grove in its autumnal flourish before you see it—that much I know from growing up ...
Neil Sperry gives advice on a dying ligustrum, pecan scab ruining crops, yellowing red oaks, zoysia repairs before a wedding, ...
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. He peeled away the pecan’s ...