The green side of almonds: California’s 180M almond trees store 30M tons of carbon yearly Most people look at a flowering ...

As almond growers enter the growing season, two early-season diseases are top of mind: shot hole and scab. These fungal infections can ...

People need to eat food to survive. And the food California farmers grow is being eaten. So why make almonds — of which 90 percent are grown on family farms — the big, bad wolf in the ...

A self-pollinating nonpareil could mean less need for bees and greater production for the most popular variety of nut.

As almond growers in California navigate the season, they continue to battle two major fungal diseases: botrytis and hull rot. According to ...

Late in 2023, California almond growers – responsible for a crop valued at $3.88 billion in 2023 – started to hear about a potentially devastating new pest, the carpophilus beetle (Carpophilus ...

In California, almond growers are nervous about the uncertainty. California supplies 82 percent of the world’s almonds and has almost 7,000. The tariffs add about 12 cents per pound to shelled ...

Commercial beekeepers saw well over 50% losses this winter. As California prepares for almond season, and for fruits like blueberries and cherries after that, not enough bees could mean higher prices ...

New almond varieties are always coming out from public and private breeding programs around the world. It is tempting to plant the latest and greatest. Unfortunately, many growers in my area of ...

A nationwide shortage of honeybees has coincided with a rise in beehive thefts as growers throughout the Central Valley prepare for almond bloom, a pivotal time for the health of the nut, which is one ...