Where To Buy Pecans In El Paso
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The El Paso facility processes pecans and has a shelling plant, two cold storage warehouses and a packaging/distribution warehouse. The facility operates 13 trucks and employs 23 drivers, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Farmers Investment Co will continue growing pecans on its farms in the Santa Cruz Valley and San Simon. FICO is making significant investments in its farming operations, including a pipeline to increase groundwater recharge and completion of the second phase of a new pecan cleaning plant.
The Urbinas' farm, which winds along the river, includes an old house that the couple is restoring for visitors to sample pecans, coffee and wine. They were inspired by Fredericksburg, a town of German heritage near Austin that draws tourists.
Cabeza de Vaca, shipwrecked in an expedition to the Gulf of Mexico in 1529, lived with an Indian tribe and wrote that the natives ate nothing but pecans for two months a year and yet remained strong and healthy. Other tribes added pecans to corn cakes and used the nuts for seasoning and thickening. George Washington is said to have carried them in his pocket, and he planted several trees. Pecans are the only nut native to the United States, and they were the only fresh food taken to the moon as part of Apollo Missions 13 and 14. They are grown by many individuals in the El Paso-Las Cruces area, but one name is synonymous with pecan growing: Stahmann.
Building two barges, W. J., his wife and three children traveled down the Mississippi River, sold the barges in Arkansas and continued across Texas until they settled in Fabens, where they began raising tomatoes, onions, alfalfa, cotton and rabbits. An expert bee keeper, W. J. also set up a honey-making business with bees he brought from Wisconsin. However, because the water that irrigated their land was brackish and of low quality, W. J. feared that it might become too saline for their crops. So they packed up and moved further west to the Mesilla Valley in New Mexico, not far from the location of Elephant Butte Dam, which had been constructed in 1916, and offered better irrigation possibilities.
Deane and his wife Joyce, known as abuelita by her family, had three children: Deane Jr., William John II (Bill), and Mary. They were born in El Paso where the family lived while the Mesilla farm was being established. The road to Mesilla was just a winding trail through mesquite and sand dunes, not the pleasant paved N.M. Highway 28 of today.
By the 1950s Deane had built two shelling plants handling 8,000 pounds of pecans daily and marketed different sizes of nut kernels for ready consumption and cooking under the same Del Cerro brand. Until 1967, harvesting of the pecans was done by hand, resulting in as many as 1,000 workers at the farm. Besides the shelling plants, the business included a central office building, the slaughtering and freezing plants for the geese, a blacksmith shop, a machine shop, a store and a clinic with a nurse, producing the atmosphere of a little town.
Employees lived in company housing and in early days bought their food and other necessities in a commissary which became the Stahmann Country Store, the retail outlet for pecans and related products. Later a modern three-story processing plant replaced the other two plants, and mechanical shakers greatly reduced the number of employees. By 1989, the Stahmanns halted processing activities, but they worked with the New Mexico Department of Labor to retrain and find their former employees other jobs. Deane also built an airstrip high atop a mesa on his property and acquired several aircraft, including B-26 bombers used in World War II and small jets, that he used for various activities, such as crow patrol (the birds love pecans), spraying of herbicides and fertilizer and freight and charter passenger service. At one time, he even provided commuter airline service in southern New Mexico.
Fourth-generation farmer Shannon Ivey said in 1950 his great grandfather bought land in El Paso County, Texas, to grow cotton. As cotton prices fell, the family began a 35-year process of transitioning their land from cotton to pecans. The process, which began in 1972 and culminated in 2007, was undertaken so the farm could remain financially stable while the new orchards grew into productivity.
Altough the pecan tree is native to eastern Texas, the tree nut thrives in the arid deserts of the El Paso Valley as well. These parts of the Chihuahua Desert receive only inches of rainfall every year, but Ivey said irrigation systems using surface water from the Rio Grande river make the region great for farming. The Ivey farm contains roughly 570 acres of orchards, which is likely to produce over a million pounds of pecans annually.
U.S. pecans are never genetically modified but have been bred into a variety of cultivars, each having its own characteristics. The grower said his farm grows Western Schley pecans, a variety that does well in dry climates and has a nuttier flavor than other cultivars.
At a time when the value of pecans per bushel has already dropped sharply on national markets, some local pecan farmers have had to slow down or stop work on their fields entirely due to Covid infections.
Greg Daviet: The marketing of our product has changed substantially over the last decade. There has been an increase in foreign demand for our product and a consequent diversification in its marketing channels. Traditionally, all the pecans grown in the United States went to the domestic shelling industry, and the pecan meats were then sold to either end users or ingredient manufacturers. With the diversification of our marketing channels, products are now segregated into different marketing channels. We are still developing our on-farm processes to adapt to those new marketing channels. Traditionally, during the harvest period, you would sell the crop, ship it immediately, and then go straight back to growing without any concern about what was happening to the product from that point on. Now it is becoming more common for growers to be responsible for storing the crop, bearing the risk of adverse price movements, and financing the holding of that crop until it is needed by either an in-shell foreign user or a domestic shelling user. At Dixie Ranch, we are currently building a freezer so that we can manage that process on the farm, eliminating the economic friction caused by having third-
Greg Daviet: I have an optimistic out look on the pecan industry. Currently, the world demands more pecans than we are able to grow. It takes many years for supply to catch up to demand, and with our current efforts to expand demand, I believe it will be many decades before we are able to substantially close the gap between demand and available supply. With that in mind, it is important for producers in the industry to stay focused on maximizing the value for our consumers, both in our own processes and in the processes we facilitate off the farm. In the desert Southwest, the limiting factor for all crops is water. There is a limit to how many pecans can be grown in West Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. We will probably need producers of pecans outside the desert Southwest to maintain pace with the global demand for our product. I believe that the future of the pecan industry is bright.
The pecan is the only commercially grown nut in Texas and is native to most of the state's river valleys. The tree, one of the most widely distributed trees in the state, is native to 152 counties and is grown commercially in some thirty additional counties. It is also widely used as a dual-purpose yard tree. The size and quality of pecans are influenced by the number of leaves per nut. More leaves are needed for large nuts. Pecan trees begin growing in early spring and continue in early fall; deep, loose, and well-watered soil is conducive to growth. Peccan is Algonquian for \"hard-shelled nut.\" In 1919 the Thirty-sixth Legislature declared the pecan the state tree, and eight years later the Fortieth Legislature reaffirmed the decision.
There is evidence that the pecan tree grew in the Texas region during prehistoric times. Records indicate that the nut was exported from the state before 1860. Exports from Galveston alone amounted to 1,525 bushels in 1850 and 13,224 in 1854. In 1866, 8,962 barrels were shipped from Indianola, and 1,500 barrels from Port Lavaca. The value of the pecan, however, was apparently not fully recognized for many decades, for many trees were cut to make way for cotton, and the wood was used for making wagon parts and farm implements. By 1904 pecan trees had been cut to such an extent that laws to prevent their complete destruction were considered. The financial value of the crop was soon recognized, and pecans became one of the leading money crops in the state.
Pecans were shelled on a commercial basis before 1900 by G. A. Duerler of San Antonio, who used railroad spikes for cracking the pecans and sacking needles for picking out the meats. The pecan-shelling industry grew gradually, and more mechanical devices were used in the plants. During the Great Depression an increase in cheap labor encouraged hand shelling, and many home shelling plants emerged. These small plants soon became a threat to the mechanized plants and forced them also to employ hand labor in order to compete. During the depression period 12,000 to 15,000 people were employed in the shelling industry in San Antonio alone, where several hundred plants were operating (see PECAN-SHELLERS' STRIKE). In 1938, when wage increases were required by the Fair Labor Standards Act, unskilled labor became unprofitable, and the use of machinery again became necessary. A few fully mechanized modern plants soon replaced the hundreds of home shelling plants. By the 1950s shelling plants were located at San Antonio, Tyler, Comanche, Clarksville, Taylor, Denison, Fort Worth, Dallas, and San Angelo. A plant at Weatherford in Parker County processed shell and other pecan wastes into oil and tannin for use in tannic acid. 59ce067264
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