It's a bumper year for a favorite nut

Constance Beaver shows a true pecan grower’s hack: instead of a traditional nut-pick, use a corn-on-the-cob holder instead.

Dawn Jones/Special to the Daily Mail

Pies, fudge, cookies, baklava – the list goes on of things we use pecans in, especially during holiday baking. What many people probably don’t know is that Vernon and Bates counties are the highest producing areas for pecans in the state of Missouri.

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