It’s “puh-kaan,” as could be heard in the Louisiana Legislature this session when lawmakers unanimously voted to make the pecan the official state nut. Gov. John Bel Edwards then signed the ...

The pecan is a nut from a species of hickory trees native to northern Mexico and the southern United States. The nut is a nutrition powerhouse loaded with vitamins and minerals. Pecans are packed ...

Pecans have grown in Texas since prehistoric times. Indians gratefully ate them and also gave them their name, an Algonquian word meaning a nut that it takes a stone to crack. A member of the ...

Pecan growers and suppliers are hoping to sell U.S. consumers on the virtues of North America’s only native nut as a hedge against a potential trade war with China, the pecan’s largest export ...