VIENNA, Ga. (WALB) - Georgia has now reclaimed the number one spot for pecan production in the U.S., according to a recent report by the USDA. This comes as Governor Brian Kemp declared the pecan as ...
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 ...
It’s known as the wiregrass region, this part of the South that takes in parts of southern Georgia, southeastern Alabama and the Florida panhandle. Travel its rolling topography and you’ll pass quail ...
Robert Cohen, who’s been harvesting pecans since he was a boy, kneels next to the wreckage of one of his trees. Late in the afternoon, if Robert Cohen was sitting on his patio, he could glimpse the ...
Pecan-growing runs in the Willson family. Alex Willson’s grandparents began planting trees on their 1,760-acre plot, Sunnyland Farms, in the 1940s; his father installed a pioneering irrigation system ...