Ten years after asking the state to stop new agricultural growth in San Simon, the valley's biggest pecan growers are filing a second petition.

Farmers Investment Co., which operates the lush pecan orchards that line the Santa Cruz River, is planting its next generation of trees on newly acquired land in eastern Cochise County. The company, ...

Chances are the next time you pop a pecan in your mouth, it came from the Green Valley Pecan Company, south of Tucson. For decades, one family has been farming and processing these nuts, which are ...

Pecan trees and their hickory tree cousin are nutty buddies not from South Carolina. The pecan is the only nut tree native to the United States and is indigenous to North America. It is found along ...

The ground is sinking in areas of Cochise County as demand grows for water to irrigate groves of nut trees. Local residents have long been divided over groundwater regulations, fearful of losing their ...