Not long ago, the hurricane “Irma” swept Georgia State and almost all the pecan orchards were damaged, which influenced greatly the 2017 pecan harvest season.
Most of the most affected pecan orchards were in Valdosta and Fort Valley. Thousands of pecan trees in the orchards of individual planters were blown down. The pecan tree can yield the fruit for up to several decades continuously. In some regions of Georgia State, the pecan tree even has the age of more than 100 years. It normally takes 5-7 years for a newly-planted pecan tree to start yielding the fruit. Thus, the influence brought by blown-down pecan trees will be lasting.

Most of the pecan planters in Georgia State have reported the losses of pecan orchards. The quantity of blown-down pecan trees ranged from dozens of trees to thousands of trees. Every orchard had the broken branches and a large portion of the fruits were blown off. Fortunately, most of the fruits blown off came from the tree top. Thus, there were still lots of pecans left for the planters.