Mon., November 4, 2013 12:12pm
Rain, Fungus Shrinks Georgia Pecan Crop
Southwest Georgia’s pecan farmers are in the midst of harvesting their crop, but they’re a couple of weeks behind schedule and they’re losing a lot of the nuts to a fungal disease called pecan scab. What will all that mean for holiday pecan prices? Not much right away, but it could push consumer prices up down the road.
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