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September 8th, 2010 • 23:09

I Was Just Enjoying A Bag Of Mixed Nuts.i Was Cracking Them And Noticed Something.?

I have lived here for 19+years,and know as a horticulturist,our trade is cranberries,turnips, clams,wellfleet dragged oysters, and heavenly bay scallops.my question, where do nuts come from, and what happened to the pecan population?

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  • Sep 9th 2010 • 01:09
    by greengar

    I have lived here for 19+years,and know as a horticulturist,our trade is cranberries,turnips, clams,wellfleet dragged oysters, and heavenly bay scallops.my question, where do mixed nuts come from, and what happened to the pecan population?

  • Sep 9th 2010 • 03:09
    by Tex

    Mostly the mixed nuts come from the big cities, us country folk tend to stay pretty well balanced. Pecans are alive and well, they are just too expensive to mix with the commoners.

  • Sep 9th 2010 • 03:09
    by exnav138

    Well I know that Pecans are the most expensive type of nut thus corporations will hold their costs down as much as possible to maximize the profit. Mixed nuts by law have to have four separate types of nuts and it makes sense that they would cut out the rich stuff. Hey, its what they do.I also know that depending on who you talk to hurricane gustav took down from 37 to 65 percent of the available pecan crop in Texas in Louisiana. Oklahoma had/has a drought (pecans are water intensive) and those three states have a lot of pecan production. Hurricane gustav probably had a negative effect on the production in mexico as well. Pecans are mast fruiting species which means a crops production will not stay constant from year to year. Any given orchard can produce a much greater or lesser amount from year to year. (yes I know you know that. I had to say it for everyone else.) Links are include because I am pathologically compelled to provide them, on the grounds that if you can’t document what you say then it doesn’t count.

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