Kurt wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:46 am https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/volusiaco/20 ... tive-crop/

https://www.producereport.com/article/c ... ing-region

Looks like China’s Yunnan Province is about to be the world leader in Macadamia production.

With all the new production coming online, including China's significant plantings, maybe the price will come down some. I won't pay what they want for them now.

All of my Macadamias don't get used because they are too difficult to remove the shell.

I haven’t bought macadamia nuts in a long time. I remember trying them as a youngster and thought, wow, these are the best thing ever. But, I think I must have burned myself out on them a long time ago. Same with cashews, loved cashews once upon a time, but now I don’t much like them anymore.

New Mexican pine nuts roasted and salted in the shell are by far my favorite snacking nut, but those are unavailable outside the growing region and even there are ridiculously expensive.

Looks like the temperature requirements for growing macadamia nuts rules them out here or virtually anywhere else nearby. I am surprised how widely all over the world these nuts are grown.

zeuspaul wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 12:06 pm All of my Macadamias don't get used because they are too difficult to remove the shell.

There are a number of nut crackers especially developed for Mac nuts here Down Under, the best is an offset cam type, makes cracking them very easy.

They are not cheap here either, used to be a farm that we would drop into when visiting friends up northern NSW, just to the south of the macs home range where we could get them cheap, $5/kg in shell. Farm closed, not sure what happened to the trees.

Kurt wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:30 pm https://emailservice.mirabelsmarketingm ... QiOjY2fQ==

Which story are you referring to?

It's sad to hear about the melon crops.

Sorry repeat,it was the macadamia program that they are offering.