Bumper Pecan Crop

Anonymous-0 · Jan 16, 2009

I've started helping my dad shell pecans. Off of a couple of trees he's got over 200-300 lbs. We found a guy who runs them thru a machine that cracks them. This fellow said he's cracked close to 11,000 lbs. He says the old timers have never seen such a crop. Any of you others seen a big crop? And any ideas why?

James Babcock · Jan 16, 2009

Did the pecans make anything last year? The reason I"m asking is that here in the Ozarks we had a historically late freeze last year which killed everything from peaches to walnuts. Even the persimmons didn"t make fruit last year, and I"ve never seen that in my 58 yrs. I"ve always heard that the trees are able to build up their strength if all the fruit is not there, and the year following a crop failure means a bumper crop.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 16, 2009

I believe it was just an average crop last year.

E.B. Haymakin' · Jan 16, 2009

This year the pecan crop in the Mobile, Al area was not a good year. Last year the trees were set for a major crop, but drought starved the trees of water with a poor crop resulting. Last years crop had plenty of nuts on the ground, and 75% of the nuts were worthless. This year the trees that did put on were yielding good quality nuts, but only a few trees did so.
Stewarts ranged from .80cents to a dollar a pound.
Papershell & Candy seedlings received .75cents pound entire season consistently, but Stewarts fluctuated. Had three trees that produced around 175 lbs of each.
At the local Wal-Mart on the baking aisle 10 oz of shelled Stewarts is $7.78 a bag. The price the producer is receiving doesn"t justify the expense of keeping the trees up. Pecans are very susceptible to weather disasters, and we seem to be able to rely on a crop once in 5 years that coincides with decent pricing with the buyers. Last year the good Stewarts were bringing closer to 1.10, if you had any.

pete black · Jan 16, 2009

cullman, al. had a bumper crop this year. another sign of the times changing, the younger generation do not pick up pecans, therefore a large amount of the pecans left at the trees.

E.B. Haymakin' · Jan 16, 2009

Well I guess that accounts for the weak prices then. If most other areas have had a good year, then pricing usually is pushed down.

Kevin in OK · Jan 16, 2009

In Oklahoma, we had no pecans on the trees. The last two years we had a huge number of pecans, however cost prevented us from spraying and they were all lost to pecan weevils. From the people I've talked to, apparently nobody in the northern half of OK had much of a crop.

Kevin

old · Jan 16, 2009

This is the first year I had pecans and the funny thing is I had shells but no meat in any of them
Hobby farm

Mike M · Jan 16, 2009

I had a fair amount of Walnuts this year. In Ohio. There is an Amish place that buys them by the pound after they run them through a husker machine.

keh · Jan 16, 2009

Good crop in Western SC. I'm getting tired of shelling pecans, but want to freeze what I can in case there's no crop next year.

KEH

tom toney · Jan 16, 2009

Columbus, Ms. Have 2 large pecan trees. One in front has smaller pecans than one at back of house. Wife and I picked up just over 300 pounds from tree in back. Have 10 trees and even the small trees had pecans. One soft shell tree, no idea where it came from but picked up 50 pounds from it.
Everyone in our area had bumber crop. Man here charges 35 cents per pound to crack and blow. Took ours 20 miles to next town and had cracked and blown for 10 cents. I sit and shell while watching tv at night.

jbp · Jan 16, 2009

North central Kentucky. Had no pecans the past two years, but this year[08] we have picked up over forty gallons with the ground still covered,all from two small trees. Apple trees were loaded to the point of breaking also. Bet 09 is a total bust.

Tim...OK · Jan 16, 2009

your right on the money Kevin.. I helped clean up a 5000 tree pecan orchard this summer from last winters ice damage..It didn't make enough pecans to haul the equipment over there..

Tim

Anonymous-0 · Jan 16, 2009

This is the first time in 7 years that mine have produced. 25 5 gallon buckets on 3 trees.

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