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Nuts to you.
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Posted 30 November 2011 - 04:25 AM
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Posted 30 November 2011 - 03:21 PM
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Wow had no clue it was that much.
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Posted 30 November 2011 - 10:01 PM
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Posted 04 December 2011 - 06:03 PM
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Posted 04 December 2011 - 11:19 PM
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Posted 05 December 2011 - 03:43 AM
mariaandrea, on 04 December 2011 - 11:19 PM, said:
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Posted 05 December 2011 - 04:04 AM
of the South and, in the case of pecans, a big demand from China.
Some of the nation's biggest producers of peanut butter are bumping up prices as they react to one of the worst peanut crops in decades, one that has been exacerbated by extreme weather and a decline in planting.
J.M. Smucker Co., which makes Jif, is raising prices by 30 percent.
Kraft raised the price of Planters peanut butter by 40 percent, and the price of its Peter Pan brand rose 20 percent recently.
Droughts in Texas and Georgia caused prices for a ton of runner peanuts, commonly used to make peanut butter,
to hit nearly $1,200 per ton this month, said Tiffany Arthur, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
That is up from $515 per ton at this time last year.
Drought dramatically reduced the pecan crop in many of those states this year.
Production in Texas, which has had a record drought, dropped the most, from 70 million pounds last year to an estimated
40 million pounds this year.
In Louisiana, production plunged from 20 million pounds last year to an estimated 9 million pounds this year."
http://www2.timesdis...ric-ar-1445270/
(This is an older statement (2006) but it speaks to the larger insect population eating the peanut crops
and the drought conditions causing a rise in the selling price.)
http://www.caes.uga...._main&PK_ID=536
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Posted 05 December 2011 - 05:24 AM
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Posted 05 December 2011 - 07:13 AM
I do love to eat nuts in general and it was really good thing to know that they are healthy foods. I just hope prices would become more affordable so that we could have it more on a often basis.
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Posted 05 December 2011 - 05:01 PM
zararina, on 05 December 2011 - 07:13 AM, said:
I do love to eat nuts in general and it was really good thing to know that they are healthy foods. I just hope prices would become more affordable so that we could have it more on a often basis.
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Posted 06 December 2011 - 08:39 AM
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Posted 28 December 2011 - 02:11 AM
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Posted 28 December 2011 - 04:12 AM
makeitmom, on 28 December 2011 - 02:11 AM, said:
and other insects are prone to stressed trees; weakening them or killing them completely.
(From an older article)-
http://www.noble.org...e/Grasshoppers/
And with the disappearing bee population, pollination is an issue of all nut trees.
http://www.cosmosmag...e.com/node/1087
From PBS-the silence of the bees.
http://video.pbs.org/video/995224587
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Posted 29 December 2011 - 06:04 PM
Shortpoet-GTD, on 28 December 2011 - 04:12 AM, said:
and other insects are prone to stressed trees; weakening them or killing them completely.
(From an older article)-
http://www.noble.org...e/Grasshoppers/
Some farmers grow walnuts and pecans here in North Carolina, and though we were in drought a few years back, with a little cultivation and care, we muddled through it.
About a month ago I pick a good bussel of pecans, so where theres a will theres a way :)
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Posted 30 December 2011 - 09:35 PM
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Posted 01 January 2012 - 05:36 PM
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Posted 01 January 2012 - 06:19 PM
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