Brad Haire of the Southeast Farm Press has a story today about the impacts of Hermine on the pecan harvest in Georgia. The worst part of the state’s damage was in the lower southeast part of the state; fortunately, winds were less damaging in other areas, so the state’s total production will not be as severely affected as it would have if the storm had tracked farther north.
Even so, the story quotes UGA pecan specialist Lennie Wells as saying “about a quarter of our acreage was directly impacted by the storm and of that I’d say 30 percent of the nuts were blown or shaken off the trees.” One grower in Berrien County reported that more than 1,000 trees had blown down, most of them in the 15-year-or-younger range. You can read the full story here . The story includes information on the economic losses due to replanting as well as how to salvage tipped trees.
