A Tribute to John Lee Turner, Jr. — “Pecan John”
Oftentimes, our pecan pioneers and heroes labor in relative obscurity. John Lee Turner, Jr. was such a man. Dan York, an original APC Council Member, introduced me to John in 2015. We asked him to testify as a native pecan grower from Arkansas during the Pecan Federal Marketing Order hearings in Dallas. He graciously accepted...
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The Pecan Baton
The Pecan Baton Once upon a time in pecan land, Growers sought to organize everyman Beginning in ’21 with the Texas pecan Pioneer names have carried the baton. Romberg, Benton, Bluefford, and George Ray Passed the baton as each had their day We all are beholding as each took their shift T P G A...
Read moreAmerican Pecan Board provides update on marketing order effort
The American Pecan Board (APB) was established in May 2013 as an organization to represent all segments of the pecan industry, including those whose livelihood involved the growing, handling, processing and marketing of pecans. After consultation with USDA in Washington, the APB decided, in December of last year, to go before the industry and propose...
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A look back and a look forward to what pecan industry can be
Our industry is at a crossroad. Let me begin with two stories that are insightful and revealing. At the WPGA conference in Las Cruces in March of last year, over a breakfast conversation with Dick Walden about the state of our industry, he mentioned an article that he had written in the 1990s entitled “The...
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