Any pecan farmers here?

I have 3 trees and made $175 this year...does that count?

Yeah, lots of planning needs to take place before planting. Pollination is huge, in general you'd like to have natives in the near vicinity for pollination. There are two types of flowering and they vary by cultivar. LINK

They guys up here at the pecan station are helpful and could probably assist in planning your orchard. Another thought is you need to plan for thinning the orchard in 30-40 years. there's a tree nursery near Tyler, Tx and I just recently saw a mailer for Bass Pecan Nursery near Jackson, MS. You could plant native root stock and do your own grafting if you have a source for graft wood.

Congratulations on your never ending supply of wood for your smoker!

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I saw you pushing them on Facebook.

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that was with me giving at least 25 gallons away

and I probably still have 10 gallons on the ground but I just got tired of picking those bastards

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that was with me giving at least 25 gallons away

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I need to holler at you, then. I enjoy picking them up, and I have a connection to sell them to wholesalers. I'm seriously considering buying one of these next fall.



Using my landman background and available documents, I could lease backyard (protected from thieves)trees in my neighborhood that don't get picked up.

I googled it and found a lot of city's lease their trees, so it's not a far fetched idea. The going rate seems to be 25% of the product to the lessor, and I do the work as lessee for 75%

My connection to sell does something similar with his kids out in the country, and they've put over 30K in a college savings account over the last few years.

The biggest hurdle is wholesale product. I think 1000 lbs is the minimum his wholesaler will buy. That's quite a few burlap sacks of pecans.

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my dad used to always dump something on the ground under the trees to help them produce.

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Probably Zinc.

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We have an orchard of about 40 trees. The problem is that when our trees have a good producing year so do all the other orchard owners. Price will be down in the good years and up in bad years when you have little to sell. We gather up what we want for our use and let friends and neighbors come gather what's left.

The land isn't making any income at the moment so anything will be an improvement. For $2500 I can plant 80 trees and when they start producing make my money back in a year or two.

You'll need to clean them, otherwise they're nothing but "hand picked lots" and you'll only get the crackhead price i.e. 1/2 of wholesale.