Lenny Wells
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I hope you all are staying safe amid the coronavirus concerns out there right now. Unfortunately as many of you know we have had to cancel our last four county meetings of the year (Wilcox, Jenkins, Brooks, and Dougherty) as well as the Georgia Pecan Growers Assoc. Conference. We will be getting the county meeting…
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I’ve had lots of requests for a video on planting pecan trees, so here it is: Pecan Tree Planting video A few comments: I apologize for the short amount of time some of the text appears on the screen. This is a result of my poor video editing skills. But, I think the video will…
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Every year I receive calls regarding trees in which the bark sheds for no apparent reason. This understandably creates great alarm among growers. I see it most often on Desirable but it can occur on other cultivars as well. Usually the outer bark layer sloughs off exposing the inner bark layer, which has a brown…
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Our 2020 Pecan Spray Guides are now available at the link below: https://secure.caes.uga.edu/extension/publications/files/pdf/B%20841_8.PDF
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Please see below the dates of the upcoming county meetings we have scheduled so far: Jan 21 Tattnall County Feb 3 Crisp County Feb 4 Grady County Feb 6 Peach County Feb 11 Cook County Feb 12 Mitchell County Feb 18 Appling County Feb…
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This year’s harvest season is progressing and growers are seeing a problem with many early varieties exhibiting problems with green shuck stick-tights. As growers shake trees many green nuts are falling out still in unopened green shucks. This has been especially noticeable in Pawnee and Oconee, although we have observed it on other varieties as…
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As you go to sell your pecans this harvest season, be sure you know the prices at which nuts are selling. Current USDA pecan prices can be found at the link below and are updated each Tuesday through the harvest season: https://search.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/tv_fv140.txt In addition to the above, as of last week export buyers were offering…
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