LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - It is sometimes easy to tell which pest is breaking out around the county by the sheer number of phone calls that I get. This week it is the walnut caterpillar that is being ...

It is sometimes easy to tell which pest is breaking out around the county by the sheer number of phone calls that I get. This week, it is the walnut caterpillar that is being found all over our ...

SAN ANGELO – Is your nut-laden pecan tree suddenly developing a “bald spot?” The culprit is probably the walnut caterpillar, said a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service entomologist. Dr. Charles Allen ...

Lots of folks want to know how to get their pecan tree to produce a crop each year. Unfortunately, it’s not practical or even realistic. Afterall, commercially produced pecans are mostly grown in ...

In the simplest terms, a nut is an edible seed. We eat many kinds of nuts, from hazelnuts to Brazil nuts, pine nuts to pistachios. Most of the country’s nuts are grown here in California. In 2012, ...

Cooler weather, especially winter, is perfect for planting trees and shrubs in south Louisiana. Planting in winter gives the trees several months to establish roots before they begin active ...

Pecans have particular requirements for pollination, nutrients, and pest management if they are to produce abundant crops. Remember that many pecan cultivars do not start producing nuts until they are ...

Fruit trees, pecan trees and other nut plants can be grown with great success and relatively few problems. However, I’m often asked about how to control pecan scab, peach leaf curl, borers and poor ...

Pecan trees are shaking and shimmying as growers harvest pecans in Missouri, says University of Missouri Extension horticulturist Michele Warmund. During harvest, mechanical shakers are clamped around ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Some of Louisiana’s native trees that are over a hundred years old fell in Hurricane Laura. One of them was a pecan tree in Beauregard Parish that was close to 100 feet tall ...