We harvest pecans and sell to commercial processors that sell our pecans all over the world.  If you buy candy, ice cream, or baked goods, you have tasted our pecans.  We harvest in the Red River valley, probably the world's one best site for pecans---long, hot days,  fertile soil, abundant ground water table.  Fresh pecans are not the same as good pecans.  A pecan can be fresh while not good.  Shriveled nutmeats mean they did not mature properly, often because of insect damage or drought.  Old pecans just turn darker and rancid.  The oil kind of breaks down and they have an off odor and taste.  We never hold pecans over the season.  We wholesale everything out and keep only pecans for our personal use in the home freezer.  They freeze well either inshell or shelled and put in proper freezer containers.  We shake trees if the client wants, and it does not hurt the nuts any.  It might shake some down that are not matured.  The cleaning process weeds some of those out, but not all.  We cannot see in the shells.  We would never sell pecans we knew to be bad.  We always put in more weight to account for a few culls.  Some just don't mature out and some will have rotted from sitting in water on the ground.  Rainy falls make for a slower harvest.  We dedided to share our pecans with the eBay community this year, and we will have more this fall, beginning in October.  The best ones will be early.  The Desireables come off first.  Papershells have thinner shells and are much larger.  Natives are smaller and hard shelled, but taste richer and have a higher oil content.   We normally sell all we can harvest.  Our buyers know they can count on a good load when they come to buy.  We will not waste time this fall harvesting in other areas, so we might not have as many.  Get yours early and watch for them.  Pecans should be eaten every day in their natural form.  They are full of antioxidants and trace minerals and low in the bad fats.  Actuallly, they help lower bad cholesterol.  We plan to offer a pecan oil, too.  It is even better for you than olive oil and has a higher smoke point.  Look for that, too.