PECAN NEWSLETTER
NOVEMBER 2004
TRI-COUNTY PECAN FIELD DAY
The annual Tri-County Pecan Field Day will be held in Victoria County this year on Friday, November 19, 2004.
Program will start at 2 p.m. and conclude at about 5:30 p.m. It will be held at the Officer's Club located two blocks south of the Extension office (333 Bachelor Dr.)
Topics will highlight "Texas Health Restrictions on Home Processed Pecans," presented by Davonna Koebrick from the Texas Department of Health; "Corrective Pruning & Grafting on Wind Damaged Pecan Trees" as well as "Other Pertinent Pecan Production Topics" by Extension Horticulturist, Dr. Larry Stein; "Pecan: New Health Food" speaker to be announced; "Pecan Market and National Production and Outlook" and "Economics of Small Farm Pecan Production: Native/Improved" given by Dr. Larry Falconer, Extension Economist-Management.
TEXAS PECAN SHORTCOURSE
The Texas Pecan Shortcourse will be held January 24-28, 2005 on the Texas A&M campus. This meeting covers all topics related to pecans and provides everyone with the opportunity visit with many different speakers. Registration is $150.00 and parking is $10/day. For more information on this meeting please contact Ms. Jacque Hand at 979-845-7692 or by email at jhand@uc.tamu.edu. This is a full 5 day pecan course and I urge anyone seriously interested in getting into pecan production, whether large or small, to attend. Too many times I see mistakes made by growers that were covered at the pecan course.
VICTORIA COUNTY PECAN SHOW RESULTS
Attendance was low at this year's Victoria County Pecan Show held in conjunction with the 20th South Texas Farm & Ranch Show due to numerous factors and had only 36 entries. The quality was good and 17 advanced to the regional show. (See included table of results.)
Commercial Division Grand Champion was Gordon Beatty, and Reserve Champion was Charles B. Nelson both with the Forkert Variety.
Classic Division Grand Champion was the Barton variety and the Reserve Champion was the Podsednik variety both grown by Charles B. Nelson.
Native Division Champion and Reserve Champion was won by Patricia Hertz of Jackson County.
2003 STATE PECAN SHOW
The 2003 State Pecan Show was held in Austin, Texas on July 11-14, 2004 at the Texas Pecan Growers Conference.
The following were Victoria County winners:
1st Place - K. Moritz, Cheyenne; M. Appelt, Elliott and J. Rother, Kiowa.
2nd Place - J. Rother, Oconee and State Champ Native and F. Stockbauer, Osage.
3rd Place - C. Nelson, Shoshoni; J. Rother, Schley; S. Janak, State Champ Native and G. Beatty, Forkert.
Ribbons may be picked up at the Extension office.
Sincerely,
Joseph D. Janak, Jr.
County Extension Agent - Ag
Victoria County
JDJ:vaf
cc: Darrell Dromgoole
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