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Pecan orchard?
Posted on 3/4/15 at 9:06 am
Posted on 3/4/15 at 9:06 am
I'm about to buy a new home with 28 mature pecan trees. 14 are Elliots and 14 are papershell. How much can I expect to make? I plan to fertilize every year to insure a bumper crop every year.
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Posted on 3/4/15 at 9:09 am to MudEngineer318
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14 are Elliots
Posted on 3/4/15 at 9:16 am to MudEngineer318
Nice for some bushy tail hunting!
Posted on 3/4/15 at 9:18 am to MudEngineer318
There's large variations in the prices and yields from pecan orchards.
In 2013 prices for improved pecans ranged from 1.25-2.25 per lb. and yields ranging from 350-750lbs per acre.
What parish are you in?
In 2013 prices for improved pecans ranged from 1.25-2.25 per lb. and yields ranging from 350-750lbs per acre.
What parish are you in?
Posted on 3/4/15 at 9:20 am to MudEngineer318
Elliot's are my favorite.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 9:29 am to pointdog33
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What parish are you in?
Avoyelles
The trees are on 2 1/2 acres.
This post was edited on 3/4/15 at 9:30 am
Posted on 3/4/15 at 9:31 am to MudEngineer318
Stock some chuckleheads.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 9:34 am to MudEngineer318
Stuart's are my favorite but it looks like they take longer to mature than others (8-10 years)
Posted on 3/4/15 at 9:53 am to PapaPogey
You have to spray the Elliott's every year if you want a good crop.
How big are the trees?
Oh, prices for pecans swing every year. It all depends on South America crop and what other states are doing as for as a crop.
How big are the trees?
Oh, prices for pecans swing every year. It all depends on South America crop and what other states are doing as for as a crop.
This post was edited on 3/4/15 at 9:55 am
Posted on 3/4/15 at 9:53 am to MudEngineer318
State average price was 1.73 per pound and 352.41 lbs per acre.
If those numbers hold you're looking at approx $1500 annually.
Avoyelles averaged 450 lb per acre @ 1.73 per pound.
Approx. $1950 Annually at that rate of production.
If those numbers hold you're looking at approx $1500 annually.
Avoyelles averaged 450 lb per acre @ 1.73 per pound.
Approx. $1950 Annually at that rate of production.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 10:34 am to pointdog33
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If those numbers hold you're looking at approx $1500 annually.
So to get the $1500, you would have to fertilize the trees, spray them, pick the pecans up off the ground (this is assuming that you aren't putting money into the machinery to harvest them from the tree), package them and then find a place to sell them?
Yeah, no way in hell I would do all that.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 10:42 am to TigerDeacon
You could do a self pick type operation.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 10:46 am to TigerDeacon
You should find a ninche market like pecan picking for lovers. Let them do the work and pay you for it. All you have to do is build a $150,000 bed and breakfast.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 10:47 am to MudEngineer318
What is the difference between an orchard and a grove? Apple orchard / Orange grove both have trees that produce fruit. Then you throw in trees producing nuts and my mind goes nite nite!
Sorry if this is a semi-hijack but looks like you got your answer so I thought it would be ok to get some clarification.
Sorry if this is a semi-hijack but looks like you got your answer so I thought it would be ok to get some clarification.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 10:50 am to Tiger inTampa
An orchard always has to consist of fruit or nut trees, but a grove does not. That is the big difference. Orchards are usually maintained in a grove-like manner, with all the competing underbrush removed. So an orchard can almost always be considered a grove by both definitions of the word, but a grove is not always an orchard.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 10:55 am to pointdog33
Gracias.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 11:09 am to TigerDeacon
After several years of fighting those things, I wanted to cut my 5 acre orchard down, except for 1 tree, just to get smoking limbs off of..
Posted on 3/4/15 at 11:11 am to Ole Geauxt
Eat em, don't fight em
Posted on 3/4/15 at 11:25 am to PapaPogey
Those limbs used to knock my arse off my tractor, almost.
Wind was always tearing them up.
Had to have a burn pile going all year.
Somehow, the public always seemed to think that it was a public orchard.
Always fun to have to run tribes of hood rats sitting on buckets off your property.
I'll just go buy a couple of pecan pies every year and enjoy them, more.
Wind was always tearing them up.
Had to have a burn pile going all year.
Somehow, the public always seemed to think that it was a public orchard.
Always fun to have to run tribes of hood rats sitting on buckets off your property.
I'll just go buy a couple of pecan pies every year and enjoy them, more.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 11:29 am to jimbeam
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You could do a self pick type operation.
Ok, so you still have to fertilize and spray the trees. Then you have to buy a scale to weigh what people pick up. Plus you have to be there when people come by.
Nope.
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