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Have you ever picked pecans?
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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 790483" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>I have never picked pecans. I bought about 50 trees from Missouri Department of Conservation and planted them in the fence rows in the creek bottoms. They came out real nice and then the llamas ate the buds off and killed them.</p><p> We have alot of black walnut trees and in our area the nuts are a huge business. Stockton, Missouri has the largest processor of black walnuts in the world and buys every fall. They set mechanical hullers at every little town and people pick up the walnuts and bring them in to be hulled and weighed. A full sized pickup bed piled full and rounded up will weigh around 800 lbs after hulling. If you use 1x8's above the bed, you can get on 1,000 lbs. The most I ever picked up was 1,200 dollars worth, at 10 cents per pound, that was 12,000 lbs. That was alot of work. </p><p> The price varies, but it has been starting out around 12-13 cents per pound and then as the walnuts come streaming in, they drop it to 6 or 8 cents. Then they sell the goodies for 10-20 dollars per pound in the store to make candy and ice cream. You start out with a green walnut 2-3 times the size of a golf ball and end up with a little goodie that weighs almost nothing, but sure does taste great.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 790483, member: 1150"] I have never picked pecans. I bought about 50 trees from Missouri Department of Conservation and planted them in the fence rows in the creek bottoms. They came out real nice and then the llamas ate the buds off and killed them. We have alot of black walnut trees and in our area the nuts are a huge business. Stockton, Missouri has the largest processor of black walnuts in the world and buys every fall. They set mechanical hullers at every little town and people pick up the walnuts and bring them in to be hulled and weighed. A full sized pickup bed piled full and rounded up will weigh around 800 lbs after hulling. If you use 1x8's above the bed, you can get on 1,000 lbs. The most I ever picked up was 1,200 dollars worth, at 10 cents per pound, that was 12,000 lbs. That was alot of work. The price varies, but it has been starting out around 12-13 cents per pound and then as the walnuts come streaming in, they drop it to 6 or 8 cents. Then they sell the goodies for 10-20 dollars per pound in the store to make candy and ice cream. You start out with a green walnut 2-3 times the size of a golf ball and end up with a little goodie that weighs almost nothing, but sure does taste great. [/QUOTE]
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