Walking into Valley View Pecan Company, the smell of fresh-cracked pecans and homemade candies evoke a scrumdiddlyumptious thought of what it would be like to enter Willy Wonka’s candy factory.

Wayne Craig prepares a customer’s bag of pecans to be cracked and shelled by cleaning and sorting the pecans. Special to the Commercial/Shedelle Davis What began as a niche sideline business for ...

Pecans in the shell usually sell for much less than shelled. So it pays to crack your own. We tested three common tools: – The hinged-tong style. The simplest cracker. It’s the easiest to use: Just ...

Pecan trees, although not native, can grow to become prosperous should we take the proper steps to nurture the tree. Here are ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Alabama pecan growers saw prospects for a good year plucked from them when Tropical Storm Isaac blew through their trees in late August. But the problems state pecan growers have ...

Pecan season is here. Pecan trees are native to Arkansas, and their nuts are a welcome sign of fall. While many people would like to have them as a shade tree with benefits -- to produce large, ...

AUSTIN — If you love pecans, but don't love cracking them yourself, there's a service in Austin that will do it for you. The Lamar Senior Activity Center in Central Austin is once again offering its ...

Dewayne McCasland of Goldthwaite knows pecans. "Good production leads to good sales," he said. McCasland is totally integrated in the pecan business, producing, manufacturing pecan equipment, buying, ...

A typical Thanksgiving pecan pie calls for half a pound of pecan halves. If you purchase your stock of nuts now from your local supermarket, it’ll set you back around about $4.50 (or $9 for a ...