R.G. Lamar of Stuckey’s Corp. bought pecan-shelling and candymaking facilities in rural Georgia. There’s demand, but not enough workers.
We visit a farm in Georgia that sells 60 percent of their nuts to China.
Farmers are lobbying for a federal order to build a marketing fund.
With years of drought in California affecting nut production, some farmers are looking at other places and other nuts to grow.