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DALLAS (KTVT) — For decades, a pair of pecan trees have framed the front of the Bellew home in Lake Highlands. “It is a selling point for the neighborhood that there are lots of trees,” said Jill ...

Texas pecan growers are preparing for the harvest season with a crop outlook that reflects the state’s diversity in weather and geography.

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - With everchanging weather conditions and seasons, farmers and agriculturists are looking for the future to make more and more resilient flora. WALB’s Jim Wallace sat down with a ...

The Rio Grande’s flow, when it exists, is not nearly enough to supply the Mesilla Valley’s commercial farmers. To make up for the surface water deficit, pecan (and alfalfa) growers pump groundwater at ...

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 cookies, pecan ...

Fresh pecans sure taste good. The fact that they do taste so good probably has some of you thinking you would like to plant pecan trees so you can grow your own. That’s not a terrible idea, but before ...

I often get questions about pecans, especially during the holidays with all the holiday baking. Many want to plant the trees as nursery and garden centers receive their annual shipment of bare-rooted ...

This article is part of Texas Monthly’s special fiftieth-anniversary issue. Read about the other icons that have defined Texas since 1973. Wild pecans yield their pleasures stingily. They’re small, ...