
March 2022 Classifieds
The March 2022 Classifieds feature available equipment, property, trees, services, and more from industry members. These classifieds can also be viewed at the back of the March 2022 issue.
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Intensive cultivation in saline soil conditions
Over about six years now and the successful planting of 406 pecan seedlings of seven different cultivars at our University of Arizona Safford Agricultural Center, I am encouraged and enlightened by the observations and results so far that have come out of the research project. More pecan producers than just Arizona producers contend with the...
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The Crop Corner March 2022
The Crop Corner provides seasonal updates for readers on pecans throughout the industry and continues March 2o22. Created and published by Pecan South editors, The Pecan Newsletter provides weekly harvest and market updates from September through January by compiling reports from growers and market information from reliable sources worldwide. The Crop Corner follows these same...
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Letter from the Publisher: 55 years with pecans
Dear Readers, This issue starts Pecan South’s 55th volume, and the publisher, I get to address the readership with the start of each new volume. Of course, Pecan South did not start as Pecan South 55 years ago. It all started in May of 1967 as The Pecan Quarterly, with fantastic diagrams of inlay grafting,...
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American Pecans’ marketing milestones
2017 was a monumental year for the American Pecan industry. Uniting to support the passage of a Federal Marketing Order, we commenced our first large-scale, domestic marketing effort. Our collective endeavor to increase domestic demand has produced impressive results; in fact, our integrated marketing efforts—which began with Weber Shandwick less than five years ago—have resulted...
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March 2022 Advertisers
Pecan South March 2022 advertisers share their products and services between the pages of this issue. Below, we present a full list of our March 2022 advertisers and their contact information.
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Q&A with Chefs after NPSA Culinary Workshop
With another harvest in the books, growers now prepare for a new growing season. Marketing and promoting pecans remains a major task for the industry, with several groups and organizations working together to share pecan’s health benefits and versatility with chefs, nutritionists, and consumers. The National Pecan Shellers Association hosted a Pecan Chef Culinary Workshop...
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Thoughts for the 2022 crop and growing season
Hard to believe that another growing season is upon us, with spring right around the corner. For some, the coming growing season represents a chance at redemption after a miserable 2021 from the standpoint of a crop or management. One of the greatest challenges that growers face in the upcoming year is the skyrocketing costs...
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Alternative fertilizer sources for orchards
As I write this article, Mother Nature is reminding us that it is still winter. After a couple of days with temperatures above 70 degrees F, I have seen freezing rain, sleet, and snow over the last 24 hours. Of course, the weather is a major concern in the short term, but if you ask...
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Oklahoma’s 2021 spring freeze impact on pecan flowers
For many pecan growers in Oklahoma, the late spring freeze in 2021 was a nightmare. The hourly temperature ranged from 29-32 degrees Fahrenheit over six hours at the experimental orchard in Perkins, Oklahoma; the damage to pecan flowers was devastating (Fig. 1). Do cultivars react differently when exposed to spring freeze? Pecans exhibit heterodichogamy, meaning...
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