Tim Brenneman is a plant pathologist on the University of Georgia Tifton campus who first found and identified Georgia's pecan fresh truffles - wholesale prices near Albany within the late 1980s. He approximated more than half of Georgian pecan growers have some truffles beneath their timber, whether they are aware of it or not. In March, they planted about 80 truffle-inoculated pecan bushes on the University of Georgia extension orchard. Ancil Jacques is a mushroom grower in Reidsville who forages for gourmet dried truffles and mushrooms in pecan orchards and sells them to upscale restaurants. Her breed has been sniffing truffles in Europe for centuries.