For decades, experts have done their best to estimate the size of California’s almond crop prior to harvest.
Meet an almond farmer whose parents immigrated from India. Meet an almond farmer whose parents immigrated from India and settled in California’s fertile Central Valley. Thanks to its Mediterranean ...
NEWMAN, Calif. — California almond growers are used to dealing with swings in the weather and water supply. Now they must also grapple with the uncertainty of trade battles as the Trump administration ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of almonds fill a trailer during harvest at a Madera County orchard. The USDA forecasts California’s almond harvest this ...
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, ...
(FOX40.COM) — Almond growing requires constant work, monitoring irrigation, weed control, and pest management. But, in ...
California’s total almond acreage dropped for the third year in a row in 2024, a trend that hasn’t happened since at least 1995. The trend is likely to continue for years to come, according to a new ...
Health research continues to strengthen almonds’ reputation with consumers, helping drive demand, expand market opportunities ...
Almonds are California’s top agricultural export as well as the nation’s top specialty crop export. With its unique Mediterranean climate, California accounts for over 80% of almonds produced globally ...
Houston Wilson, a researcher with the Kearney Agricultural Research Center, walks through an almond orchard in Central California in 2024. (Gary Kazanjian/For The Times) Almond growers across Central ...