South Georgia pecan farmer Scott Hudson returned recently from Shanghai after one of the world’s largest trade shows. It was his first trip to China since the COVID-19 pandemic hit more than three ...

Taylor Moses was awake all night when Hurricane Helene landed on her pecan farm in Georgia. Moses said she and her husband, Arren, knew the hurricane would take a toll on their 800 acres of pecan ...

Hurricane season coincides with pecan season. Severe weather is seldom kind to agriculture. A hard freeze too late in March or April shrinks a peach crop, while excessive temperatures and moisture ...

(CBS/AP) SAVANNAH, Ga. - Hired by farmers as a private security guard, Brooks Rucker patrols thousands of acres of Georgia farmland on the lookout for thieves toting 5-gallon buckets. He rarely comes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lenny Wells professor of horticulture and extension pecan specialist at the University of Georgia based in Tifton. Georgia is the ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - The Consul General of India, from the Atlanta office, came to Albany Thursday to talk pecans with Southwest Georgia farmers. “The natural beauty, the silence, the amount of ...

Just after midnight on Sept. 27, the fast-moving Hurricane Helene wiped out thousands of pecan trees and tens of thousands of pounds of pecans from Buck Paulk’s 4,100-acre pecan orchard in south ...

FORT VALLEY, Ga. — To an enterprising thief, or even a casual dabbler in crime, the fallen pecans that cover thousands of acres of unpatrolled Georgia nut orchards might as well be a carpet of nickels ...