RIPLEY, Okla. —
Pecans have been good to the Hoffman family, and the Hoffman family has been good for pecans.
Dick and his wife, Jean Hoffman bought 60 acres east of Stillwater in the early 1960s. Some pecan trees came with the purchase and he added 60 more.
Today, Hoffman Pecan Farms covers 164 acres, and more than 1,000 pecan trees, producing more than 100 varieties of paper-shell and native pecans. The farm produces 100,000 pounds of cracked and shelled pecans annually from their nut house.
“This is really quite an operation,” Payne County Agent Nathan Anderson said. “It’s a family operation, and it takes them all to run it. It’s taken a lifetime to build it.”
Read more about the Hoffman family and their life's work in Thursday's Stillwater NewsPress.
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Dick Hoffman bought 60 acres in the early 1960s. Today, Hoffman Pecan Farms has grown to 164 acres. Dick Hoffman also was a Stillwater firefighter for 25 years. Chris Day
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Chris Hoffman, eldest son, looks at some of the pecan trees at Hoffman Pecan Farms east of Stillwater. The 164-acre farm has more than 1,000 grafted trees. Chris Day
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