TIFTON — A major disease plaguing Georgia’s pecan crop, scab, is a growing problem for state producers due to increasing resistance to the fungicides used to control the disease. “I do think it’s ...

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The pecan crop in Georgia produced a little over 60 million pounds in 2013. Steady rainfall and pecan scab disease decimated pecans last season, especially in south Georgia. Pecan scab disease is the ...

Scab is the most common and damaging pecan disease. It is caused by the fungus, Cladosporium caryigenum. The fungus forms small, circular, olive-green to black spots on leaves, leaf petioles and nut ...

Dear Roger: I am ready to buy my pecan trees. You promised when I called you in September that you would write again about trees that don’t get scab. — Pete Simpson, Lillington. Dear Pete: I wrote ...

Q: What do I do about this shrub? It’s just this one side, and no other shrubs have been affected, at least so far. A: I am fairly certain that the plant that’s having the issue is a waxleaf ligustrum ...

November through February is the best time to plant pecan trees. But before you decide to add a pecan tree to your landscape, there are some things to consider. Pecan trees grow to be quite large – 60 ...

Georgia is the largest pecan producing state in the nation, experts say. “We produce somewhere around 100 million pounds annually,” said Lenny Wells, professor of horticulture and extension pecan ...

If you are from Western North Carolina, you probably call them pe-kahns, and if you are from Eastern North Carolina, you likely call them pe-cans. No matter how you say it, pecan trees are becoming ...

The pecan tree became the official state tree of Texas in 1919, credited to Governor Hogg’s love for the tree. Pecans are native to about 150 counties in Texas and capable of growing and producing in ...