Plans for the upcoming Arkansas Pecan Festival in Keo are in full swing, but there’s one crucial component of the celebration that everyone is watching closely: pecans.
Arkansas has yet to have some of its famous fall cold weather, a crucial development needed to finish the process of growing great pecans.
“They’re a little bit late maturing out there on the trees, and we need another frost or freeze or something to get ’em matured on out,” said pecan farmer Kenneth Cole. He runs The Nut House in Keo and has been working in the pecan orchards for 63 years…