For much of the last decade, almonds have been such a lucrative crop that growers and investment firms have poured money into planting new orchards across vast stretches of California farmland.
Roughly 70% of California's almond harvest is shipped overseas. Almond producers there are worried about the ripple effects of fresh tariffs.
Here are a few more tidbits about California almonds: *More than 90 percent of all almond farms are family farms. *Many farms are second and third generation. *Farmers have reduced the amount of ...
Gemperle grew up on her family’s almond orchard in nearby Turlock, and while conditions were often ideal for farming there, she’d long understood that drought was part of life in California.
Here are a few more tidbits about California almonds: *More than 90 percent of all almond farms are family farms. *Many farms are second and third generation. *Farmers have reduced the amount of water ...
A robot moves through a California almond orchard and casts a digital eye into a limb canopy in search of navel orangeworm prey—larvae hidden within mummy hulls clinging to bare branches.
UPL’s new fungicide, AXIOS™ 20 SC, is part of FRAC Group 52, a previously unavailable mode of action. It targets brown rot ...