Bad But Better Than Most...

So many times lately I get asked the question...

"How will your pecan crop be this year?"

My reply is always, "Bad but better than most."

The Pecan Shed will have pecans for our retail customers this year. However, it is our wholesale customers that will suffer. We have such a limited crop, we will not be able to wholesale much...if anything.

But we are the lucky ones.

Some pecan growers around this state and elsewhere have absolutely no crops. Theirs were either froze out by a late freeze back this spring or burnt up by the drought this summer (some of them even burned in the fires raging across this state). My heart truly goes out to these growers, their families, their employees, and their customers.

No one ever said farming was easy...at least no one that ever did it for very long...and this is just one of those tough years that we will all have to "hunker down" as my dad says and try to survive until next harvest.

I pray for rain, for better crops, and for those who are really struggling to make ends meet.