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2005 Pecan Harvest and Sales

Air cannons are set up to deter crows.
Kevin Rushing, LSU AgCenter farm crew worker, sets up air cannons to deter crows from feeding on the nuts.

A small mechanical harvester is used to harvest pecans.
Charlie Graham, LSU AgCenter horticulturist, uses a small harvester to harvest pecans from a test tree.

Richard Shelton tends to the cracker.
Richard Shelton, LSU AgCenter entomology research associate, feeds pecans into the mechanical cracker during pecan sales.


A mechanical harvester is used to harvest pecans.
A mechanical harvester is used to pick up the orchard crop.

Pecan sales at Pecan Research-Extension Station.
John Pyzner, pecan and fruit extension specialist, answers customer questions during pecan sales.

Pecans are dumped into the cracker.
A bag of pecans to be cracked is dumped into a mechanical cracker for cracking.

Cracked pecans.
Cracked pecans drop from the mechanical cracker and are then packaged for sales.


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Posted on: 4/15/2005 9:38:39 AM

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