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Merry Christmas

All of us at the Comanche County Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Office want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and thank you for your support this past very trying year. We are a stakeholder backed program and could not function without the support of not only our County Commissioners Court, but also our many volunteers and sponsors.

We appreciate all the support we receive from the community for our 4-H, Family and Consumer Science and Agriculture programming. We look forward to getting back to normal in 2021 and working with all the good folks in Comanche County.

Comanche County Pecan Show

Like everything else, this year’s Comanche County Pecan Show had to be done a little different.

Rather than have a good group of committee members and growers get together and process the pecans, I just did them here in the office over the course of a couple of days. Our numbers are also the lowest they have ever been. However, despite all this we did get the pecans graded and judged. Here are the results:

Classic and New Division:

1st Burkett-Grissom Farms 45.27 nut/lb., 52.99% kernel, 1st place Cape Fear-Sorrells Farms 53.94 nuts/lb., 48.75% kernel, 1st place Maramec-Paul Muhle 53.62 nuts/lb., 60.05% kernel, 1st Other Varities-Paul Muhle-Biggs 53.49 nuts/lb., 54.38% kernel, 2nd Don Alderman-Tejas 68.11 nuts/lb., 49.40% kernel, Variety Seedling-Paul Muhle 59.37 nuts/lb. and 59.16% kernel. The Grand Champion in the Classic and New Division was Paul Muhle’s Maramec.

Commercial Division: 1st place Caddo-Paul Muhle 59.92 nuts/lb., 56.94% Kernel, Cheyenne-Don Alderman 60.89 nuts/ lb., 54.50% kernel, Kanza-Sorrells Farms 57.42 nuts/ lb., 51.90% kernel, Kiowa-Sorrells Farms 42.31 nuts/ lb., 56.44% kernel, Oconee-Paul Muhle 44.87 nuts/lb., 58.85% kernel, Pawnee-Grissom Farms 42.27 nuts/lb., 58.34% kernel, Wichita-Sorrells Farms 45.82 nuts/lb., 57.88% kernel. The Grand Champion in the Commercial Division was Mr. Mulhes Oconee. This year’s Best of Show also went to Mr. Muhle and his Oconee.

Native Division: Sorrells Farms had the Grand Champion Native with 70.22 nuts/lb. and 50.31% kernel. The Grand Champion in the Lightest Division goes to Keaton Braim with a whooping 567 nuts/lb. I would hate to try and crack enough of those to make a pie.

Pecan producers are having a really rough year, prices are some of the lowest they have been, but inputs are as high as they have been. Please go out and buy some good Comanche County grown pecans, be sure to ask for county grown pecans. Pecans are great for the holidays and make a wonderful present.