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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…
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Well, it looks like we’re facing yet another serious storm over Georgia’s pecan belt. I have held off commenting on this storm so far as a result of so much uncertainty surrounding it and the fact that as of this writing (Tuesday morning), it still has not fully formed. However, all the models are showing…
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We haven’t seen phytopthora be a problem in pecans since the late 1980’s and then it was primarily located in the Ft. Valley area and we have not seen it develop yet this year but I had a conversation with UGA plant pathologist, Tim Brenneman recently, and he suggested that conditions over the last 2…
Posted in: Disease