Central Valley residents could breathe easier during almond harvest if a method demonstrated Tuesday takes hold. Burroughs Family Farms has sharply reduced the dust stirred up when nuts are shaken to ...
Almond harvesting in the San Joaquin Valley. A financially troubled almond farm with ranches in Fresno and Tulare counties, as well as other parts of California, is on the verge of becoming the latest ...
Almond prices are turning around as oversupply shrinks.Retaliatory tariffs in key markets have yet to materialize.But soaring ...
A new investigation from The Guardian shows that heavy pesticide use in almond groves is causing massive die-offs among bee colonies.The World’s Almond Milk Craze Is Killing Bees at a Staggering Rate ...
MODESTO — The almond orchard of the future will use less water and pesticide, and generate less waste and harvest-time dust, if goals announced Thursday morning by the Almond Board of California are ...
As Brian Paddock walks through his 12-and-a-half acres of almond trees, he’s taking in everything. Paddock, like a lot of farmers, is a details guy. He pays attention to each tree, to the soil ...
How almonds took over the Valley It’s hard to overstate how much the almond business has grown in California. Plantings have exploded in this century, driven by a strong marketing push, favorable news ...
California’s almond business has skyrocketed in the past 20 years — it’s now an $11 billion industry — and the space taken up by almond groves in the state’s Central Valley is approximately the size ...