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Almond Industry Looks to Boost Grower Returns by Growing Demand and Reducing Trade Barriers
Improving grower returns for almonds comes down to a simply supply and demand equation. While there is no…
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Almonds
Northern Almond View: February 2024
Well, here we go into the 2024 almond growing season. With soft pricing (from what I’ve heard) along…
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Almonds
What’s New with Pollinator Stewardship Grower Resources and an Update on Endangered Species
During tough economic times like the almond industry has experienced over the last two years, finding ways to…
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Almonds
Almond Prices, Bee Populations Expected to Rebound in 2024
Bee populations fluctuate more dramatically every year and bee losses have gone up dramatically over the past 10…
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Nutrition
Start the Season Off Right: Fertilize with confidence when chill is inadequate and water is decent
Cold and wet. We need quite a bit of both when we are talking about tree nuts. The…
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Almonds
From the Orchard: Mitch Moreda is Focused on Closing the Gap Between Retail and Grower Almond Prices
Mitch Moreda, in-shell marketing manager and grower representative for almond processor RPAC LLC, grew up in the almond…
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Regulations
Pilot Projects Fail, So CDPR Moves Forward with Statewide Advance Notification Proposal
Bowing to continued pressure from the environmental justice community and anti-pesticide activists, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation…
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Ag Industry
View from the Top: Moving into the Hot Seat
It’s been a busy few weeks for Shannon Douglass. Since being elected president of the California Farm Bureau…
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New Tech
Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center: Decision-Making Tools
The Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center (FNRIC), part of the UC Davis Plant Sciences department, is…
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Nutrition
There Still May Be Time for Adjustments if a Fall Nutrition Program Was Abandoned
Were some postharvest nutrition applications in your almond orchards abandoned last fall? Depending on what was skipped, there…
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Nut Crops
Exploring Cost-Cutting Strategies in Orchard Management
Decisions to cut out completely or modify orchard management practices are being made to save on input costs.…
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Labor
Long-Term Pruning an Expense that Doesn’t Help Yield, Studies Show
Does pruning bearing almond trees benefit yield? Decades of UC research says it doesn’t. That’s according to UCCE…
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