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As I reported in my last blog post, the pecan market is puzzlingly dismal. Despite the loss of 1/3 of Georgia’s pecan crop to Hurricane Helene, and an overall 2024 supply (US Crop, Mexico, and Cold Storage) forecast to be lower than that of 2023, growers are being offered shockingly low prices for their crop.…
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The American Pecan Council recently contracted with Land IQ to complete an analysis of pecan losses due to Hurricane Helene using satellite imagery. The APC and Land IQ worked closely with UGA for ground-truthing and observational information related to damage in the affected areas. This gives us the potential for a much higher degree of…
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The Georgia Pecan Growers Association recently held a meeting with USDA-Risk Management Agency to discuss the details of Hurricane Helene’s damage and what that means for growers regarding Tropical Storm and Hurricane Policies. Some great information came out of that meeting and we all learned a lot. This morning I saw an excellent blog post…
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While activities have been significantly impacted in southeastern Georgia’s pecan region from the damage and loss inflicted by Hurricane Helene, some growers who had minimal damage and those West of I-75 have harvested Pawnee and are beginning to harvest the next mature varieties. Many are finding that there are still a lot of green shucks…
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A very seasoned and veteran pecan grower told me this week, “I’ve always believed if anything shut down the pecan industry it would be a hurricane.” One would expect hurricane damage in Augusta to come from an Atlantic storm, not a storm from the Gulf of Mexico. I want to acknowledge that there are more…
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We’ve had a little over a week to sort through the damage wrought by Hurricane Helene upon our pecan industry. Its a difficult thing to see in person and to put into words. We have not seen a storm with this level of destruction in the past. The damage begins in Brooks and Lowndes counties…
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I apologize for being this late in reporting what we are seeing and hearing but I have just had my internet access restored following the storm. To say the least, the effects are absolutely devastating, not just for the pecan industry, but for many communities throughout Eastern Georgia. We’ve seen a lot of hurricanes over…