This year’s 2026 Pecan Post-Harvest Processing Workshop was hosted at the Georgia Center Hotel in Athens, GA, on Aug. 19 – 20, 2026. A link to the workshop agenda and event details are posted at https://pecanresearch.uga.edu/2026-workshop-agenda/ short survey
Links to Presentations Topic Presenter(s) Supporting our American Pecan Industry Bailey Segars, American Pecan Promotion Board / American Pecan Council Marketing 101: Bridging the Gap Between Farmers and Buyers Vicki Lynn Pecans Updates on Conditioning from the Moisture Sub-Team William Wallace McConnell, University of Georgia Updates from the Cracking Sub-Team Claire Floyd and Beni Abel Rodriguez, University of Georgia Updates from the Shelling Sub-Team Kegeng Tian and Md Shafikul Islam, University of Georgia Integrating Computer Vision Part 1 Integrating Computer Vision Part 2 Dr. Seyed Alireza Vaezi, University of Georgia Multi-Stage Experiments Part 1 Multi-Stage Experiments Part 2 Ayoub Heydarzade and Bruna Karoline Valiate Dos Santos, University of Georgia Takeaways and Recommendations for Cracking and Shelling Claire Floyd, University of Georgia Evaluation of Lactic Acid and Blue Light for Inactivating Salmonella spp. and Listeria monocytogenes on Pecan Halves Dr. Rabin Gyawali, USDA-ARS Active Packaging to Improve Pecan Quality Dr. Xiuxiu Sun, USDA-ARS Chlorine Dioxide Treatment to Improve Pecan Safety Kacie Chasteen, USDA-ARS Quality Characteristics of Georgia and Texas Grown Pecan varieties Samantha Sherman Electron Beam Irradiation Treatment to Reduce Salmonella Contamination on Pecan Kernels Dr. Cameron Bardsley Overview of the National Pecan Shellers Association (video recording) Blair Krebs, Executive Director of the National Pecan Shellers Association Research-based technology upgrades applied to industry (video recording) Eric Lyddy, Modern Electronics & Equipment Shaping the Future of Our Industry (presentation slides) + Shaping the Future of Our Industry (video recording coming soon) Adam Harrell, Gustavo Ponce, and Hari Manohar
Additional Workshop Links View the Photo Album
Song “Queen of the Pecan” written by Victor Janusz
