Lenny Wells conducts a pecan pruning clinic in Wilcox County on Jan. 31. Pruning young pecan trees is a necessity and, if done properly, can save farmers the hassle of pruning older, much larger trees ...

Q: After reading your helpful advice for a long while, I now fear I need some personally. I had a relatively minor limb cut from my pecan tree less than one year ago. Now there seems to be a very ...

QUESTION: Our pecan tree must be 50 years old. It used to bear a good crop but now has only a few nuts each year. The tree has thinned out and caterpillars feed on the leaves each summer. How can we ...

One of the things that I comment on fairly frequently is the eternal desire of people, such as myself, to examine a tree and say definitively whether or not it is structurally stable. Interestingly, ...

Unlike other trees, this American native is conveniently planted in the fall to protect from increasing sun in the spring.

Q: When do I feed a 50-year-old pecan tree growing in our front yard, and with what? A: Pecan trees do well in our climate. But they are such a large tree and require so much water that you really ...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (NMDA RELEASE) — As part of an ongoing commitment to prevent the spread of pecan weevil, New Mexico Department of Agriculture (NMDA) officials ask pecan growers and consumers to be ...

It is fall, the fair is in full swing and soon it will be time to start collecting the pecans that have dropped from our trees. Some folks are lucky. Older neighborhoods such as Avondale have huge old ...