Farmers are adopting new equipment and techniques to improve local air quality during the almond harvest. They’re reducing their reliance on pesticides by taking up new environmentally-friendly ...

The almond harvest is easy to spot in many Valley communities. Machines shake up dust when picking up nuts off the orchard floor. "The big push in the industry in the past few years has been to get ...

An Aptos biotech company says it has created the world’s first self-fertile nonpareil almond variety — a breakthrough that ...

Jack is a career business journalist an an award-winning podcast host. As California’s 2023 almond harvesting season nears its end, the management of Monte Vista Farming Company has begun to ...

Is it pronounced Almond or Amond? Is it a fruit or a nut? Unsalted or seasoned? There are so many questions when it comes to California’s beloved snack, the almond. What isn’t in question is ...

Smoke intensity also appeared to impact yield. Typically, one of the 56 almond orchards that Orozco and her team procured harvest data from might produce a few thousand kilograms of nuts per ...

Without bees we wouldn’t have almonds to harvest. Our blooming orchards are often the first taste of spring for bees and offer a natural habitat for them to flourish as they come out of their ...

Walnuts are being collected from groves in the area and the walnut buying season has opened on Friday, Nov. 8 this year.

The California almond industry has set a goal of reducing dust during harvest by 50 percent in 2025. I recently became an executive member at Costco. Here are 11 items I buy for my family that ...