Despite heat and drought challenges, Texas pecan production is expected to reach 30-35 million pounds, aligning with state ...

Oklahoma pecan growers expect a crop of 18 million to 20 million pounds, but without price improvements many may leave native ...

On a clear September night along the San Marcos River in Central Texas, a handful of people in headlamps gathered around a small, noisy creature: an evening bat. Melissa Donnelly, a science specialist ...

Janet Debelak Tyburec, of Bat Survey Solutions, measures the ears of an evening bat on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025 at Swift River Pecans in Lockhart, Texas. These bats eat lots of different insects in ...

Did you know that when you leave the dead tree stump in the yard, or you pile up the limbs that you pruned from your tree, you are going to bring more life to your yard? The typical reaction to a dead ...

Imagine moving into a house in an HOA, and almost as soon as you move in, the HOA is complaining about a tree that has been in your yard for probably 100 years. Would you point out all the reasons why ...

Few if any trees are more stately than the pecan tree. The average life span of a pecan tree is between 200 and 300 years, but it can live much longer under ideal growing conditions. Healthy trees ...

Part of the Southern Living team since 2017, Kaitlyn Yarborough Sadik is a Georgia native living in Austin, Texas, who covers a wide variety of topics for both the magazine and website, focusing on ...

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 ...

LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - My favorite tree is the pecan tree. It brings back great family memories, I like its form, and I’m a big fan of eating it. It is also a tree that causes me the most frustration ...

Pecan trees and their hickory tree cousin are nutty buddies not from South Carolina. The pecan is the only nut tree native to the United States and is indigenous to North America. It is found along ...