In keeping with the Patrick Ranch Museum’s mission to enhance “people’s understanding and appreciation of our community’s rich agricultural heritage,” a half-acre plot planted in heirloom almond ...

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 ...

And now Joe Del Bosque is considering the unthinkable: tearing out a sprawling almond orchard bursting with healthy, nut-producing trees. “It’s a tough decision to pull out these orchards,” said Del ...

Exposure to megafire smoke can reduce yields of almond, walnut and pistachio trees. Study shows smoke reduces a tree's energy reserves long after a fire ends. Long-term smoke exposure from massive ...

Stanislaus County’s finest floral display, the almond bloom, has brightened the winter landscape once again. The flowers last from mid-February to mid-March on about 210,000 acres of orchards. Each ...

In an almond orchard near Modesto, siblings Christine and Erich Gemperle are trying to find drought-resistant solutions that work in their sometimes dry, salty soil. The Gemperles, experimenting with ...

A week of hard night freezes followed by stiff north winds left almond orchards decimated in the Upper Sacramento Valley, leaving growers with nothing to do but look ahead to next year's crop. Trees ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Rodent expert Roger Baldwin used to get fewer than one yearly inquiry about rat issues during most of his extended stint at the University of California, Davis, where he’s a professor ...

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. Now, ...

Almond growers across Central California say they are battling a surging rat infestation across more than 100,000 acres of orchards, resulting in economic hardship and damage. Across Fresno, Merced, ...

Almond crop yields are threatened by a new plant fungal disease that has been observed for the first time in California. Symptoms of red leaf blotch have been found in several orchards in the Northern ...

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