This is do-or-die season for pecan growers, when trees become ripe for the shaking and shoppers’ thoughts turn to pies and candies. Like Black Friday for retailers, November is showtime for growers.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The humble pecan is being rebranded as more than just pie. Pecan growers and suppliers are hoping to sell U.S. consumers on the virtues of North America's only native nut as a ...

Walking into Valley View Pecan Company, the smell of fresh-cracked pecans and homemade candies evoke a scrumdiddlyumptious thought of what it would be like to enter Willy Wonka’s candy factory.

For much of the state, this year has been a particularly hard one to crack, swinging from a summer with too little water to an autumn with too much. Barely more than an inch of rain fell from June ...