Drought causes pecan production to shoot UP
For reasons that aren’t really explained in the article, the drought is being credited with causing Georgia’s pecan production to be higher than it has in recent years.
Predictions have Georgia producing more than 125 million pounds of pecans by the end of this year — far more than the other closest states, with New Mexico around 80 million pounds and Texas at about 73 million pounds.
Part of the reason is that heavy rains (like Texas has seen) can promote disease among the pecan crops. Still, though, I don’t really understand how they’re doing so well. If any of you have more info about this, please post in the comments.
