Wayne Craig prepares a customer’s bag of pecans to be cracked and shelled by cleaning and sorting the pecans. Special to the Commercial/Shedelle Davis What began as a niche sideline business for ...

Walking into Valley View Pecan Company, the smell of fresh-cracked pecans and homemade candies evoke a scrumdiddlyumptious thought of what it would be like to enter Willy Wonka’s candy factory.

Pecans in the shell usually sell for much less than shelled. So it pays to crack your own. We tested three common tools: – The hinged-tong style. The simplest cracker. It’s the easiest to use: Just ...

Pecan season is here. Pecan trees are native to Arkansas, and their nuts are a welcome sign of fall. While many people would like to have them as a shade tree with benefits -- to produce large, ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Alabama pecan growers saw prospects for a good year plucked from them when Tropical Storm Isaac blew through their trees in late August. But the problems state pecan growers have ...

The pecan is a quintessential American nut. It’s native to North and South America; surprisingly, its popularity hasn’t spread much beyond there. That might be changing, says Kathleen Purvis, author ...