It's That Nutty Time of the Year!

This last week marked the beginning of the harvest in the pecan orchard for 2009! All of this year's work now boils down to the next few weeks of harvest. We are hoping that the weather will cooperate (is that rain I hear falling outside?) and allow us a chance to gather the crop. I am always amazed how far away harvest seems in April when the trees first get their leaves and how short the year has been in October when it is already time to start the harvest.

We had a late freeze in the trees in mid April, thus making for a less than bumper crop, but some varieties have heavy loads and the quality looks excellent. We harvested the Pawnee last week (about 2 weeks later than normal), sold the majority of them already and have orders for the remaining ones. We will be starting on the Cheyenne and Wichita as soon as the ground dries enough for our equipment.