Georgia Pecan Crop Expected To Be Strong, Despite Hermine

LM Otero / Associated Press

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Tropical Storm Hermine is gone from Georgia, but some pecan farmers in the state are still dealing with its wrath.

“We had some larger trees blown down, but then we also had about 30 percent of the nuts blown out of the tree or shaken out of the tree by the wind,” said Dr. Lenny Wells, a pecan specialist at the University of Georgia.