LUTHER, Oklahoma -- Despite the extreme heat and subsequent drought of the summer, one Oklahoma farmer is preparing for a bountiful harvest. "The heat and drought was hard on everything, trees, ...

A bowl of roasted and salted pecans is heavenly food on the Mississippi Coast and in most Southern states. Kat Bergeron Special to the Sun Herald Pecan is a tough nut to crack. I don’t mean literally, ...

When it comes to popular seasonal foods grown in Oklahoma, nothing is as apple pie as pecans. Though pecan production in Georgia and New Mexico will far exceed Oklahoma’s this year, the nuts aren’t ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LUTHER, OKLAHOMA — Diane Couch helped plant ...

I grew up on a farm in rural McClure, Illinois, and we always had pecans on our trees at home. Many years ago my parents had two pecan trees grafted to grow large paper shell pecans. Many old-timers ...

One of fall’s greatest pleasures is the ripening of the new crop of pecans. You can find many roadside stands offering this native American nut beginning in east Texas, on through the Gulf states, ...

It's going to be a good year for pecans in the Tulsa area, pecan growers say. And Bob Knight, a Sapulpa pecan grower since 1987, has a new store in Jenks where he can sell his bounty of pecans in ...

Growing up in rural McClure, Ill., we always had pecans on our trees at home. Many years ago my parents had two pecan trees grafted to grow large paper shell pecans. Many old-timers say you will ...

Carya is a North American genus of tree first recognized by English naturalist Thomas Nuttall in his work “The Genera of North American Plants” (1818). The ancient Greek meaning of Carya, is “nut.” ...

The Good Book tells us that the last shall be first. And that, in a nutshell, is the story of the pecan. With a harvest season that runs from October to December, the pecan is the last commercially ...