Pecan growers get a high price for their crop when pecans are comparatively scarce, but the price drops sharply when pecans are abundant  Thus, in high-yield years, growers often hold back part of their crop in refrigerated warehouses for one or two years, hoping for higher prices in the future  This year' s pecan crop was the smallest in five years
It is nonetheless quite possible that a portion of this year' s crop will be held back, since
each of the last two years produced record- breaking pecan yields