{"id":235062,"date":"2025-09-18T00:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235062\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T00:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:14:09","slug":"local-pecan-farms-expect-better-season-after-multi-year-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235062\/","title":{"rendered":"Local pecan farms expect better season after multi-year drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEGUIN, TEXAS &#8211; At 38 Pecans in Seguin, they&#8217;re just about ready to start harvesting their 2700 trees in just a few weeks as pecan season rapidly approaches. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pecans are harvested once a year. Typically, they grow all year long, and then toward the end of the year, October, November, sometimes December. It kind of depends on when they open up and they&#8217;re ready to harvest,&#8221; says 38 Pecans owner Mark Walls. They have 38 varieties of pecans to harvest, hence their name. This farm has been in the Walls&#8217; family for generations. His grandfather planted their first pecan trees in the 1940s, and started selling in the 1950s. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m here to extend the legacy and keep it going,&#8221; says Walls. And this year, expectations are high. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very, very heavy. And I think I see that around our county, and even in South Texas, you&#8217;re going to see a pretty heavy crop this year,&#8221; says Walls. And that is thanks to the weather. After years of hot, dry summers that put a lot of stress on the trees, this year has been a welcome change. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we&#8217;ve seen is a mild summer coupled with heavy rain, and that has enabled these trees to exude a lot of stress, to really produce a heavy, heavy crop,&#8221; says Walls. And that&#8217;s the case for much of Texas. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of the state is going to have a very on year. On year meaning it&#8217;s going to be a very, very high production. We&#8217;re going to see a lot of pecans. The meat is going to be filled out. They&#8217;re going to be very heavy. So we&#8217;re excited about that,&#8221; says Walls. <\/p>\n<p>What that means for you is likely a greater inventory of pecans at local stores, and generally steady prices. Mark says in a normal year, they would be done harvesting in early December. But because of how heavy this year has been, they&#8217;ll likely harvest until January. <\/p>\n<p>For Seguin pecans, visit 38pecans.com <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEGUIN, TEXAS &#8211; At 38 Pecans in Seguin, they&#8217;re just about ready to start harvesting their 2700 trees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":235063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,6772,85867,126247,126248,126245,126249,7202,7203,126246,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-235062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-drought","10":"tag-harvesting","11":"tag-heavy-crop","12":"tag-mark-walls","13":"tag-pecan-farm","14":"tag-pecan-season","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-sanantonio","17":"tag-seguin-texas","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115222417607984599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}