"I don't want to say it just happened, but it kinda just happened," says Doyle McDaniel, Tree Production Manager for the Choctaw PecanFarms.He's referring to the over 1,500 acres of pecan farmland that the Choctaw Nation now owns throughout Southeastern Oklahoma.In about two years, the Choctaw Nation has gone from an undisclosed amount of native pecan trees spread across their cattle ranches to about 5,000 improved trees, producing and non-producing, and 5,000 to 6,000 native trees. The growth is exponential. And it's not stopping any time soon.
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