Dow AgroSciences received registration from the U.S. EPA and California Department of Pesticide Regulation for Trellis herbicide in […]

The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) California Field Office released the annual crop estimate for walnuts, predicting […]

Signs of excess salinity are reduced shoot growth and nut size, an increase in sunburn and kernel shrivel, and apparent water stress when the soil seems like it should have sufficient water.

Scientists have discovered that fruit from Pistacia terebinthus trees (smaller than regular pistachios), when roasted carefully, could produce […]

Blue Diamond, the leading U.S. almond grower and processor, announced Monday that their Sacramento facility was named “Plant […]

This past week, the USDA’s Economic Research Service released a report detailing recent fruit and tree nut prices. Here […]

The Western Pistachio Association has changed its name to American Pistachio Growers (APG), effective immediately. (For more on […]

California’s 2011 almond production is forecast at a record 1.95 billion meat pounds, up 11% from May’s subjective […]

The governments of the U.S. and Mexico signed an agreement that will end a two-year conflict resulting in […]

Duarte Nursery has begun the first phase of a two-year, 20-acre expansion project that will increase their total […]

Cankers may be caused by physical injuries such as sunburn or shaker damage, as well as plant pathogens which include bacteria and fungi.

Depending upon weather conditions, pathogen population, and walnut variety, walnut blight caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas juglandis can […]

There are things that are out of our control that will affect the final quality of almond kernels […]

Bayer CropScience’s Movento insecticide has received EPA registration for additional crops, including pistachios, legume vegetables, tropical fruits, dried […]

California’s 2010 almond acreage is estimated at 825,000 acres, up 2% from the 2009 acreage of 810,000, according […]

The statistics are alarming at first glance. U.S. pistachio acreage, which is limited to three states, California, Arizona, […]

The president of the California State Beekeepers Association has sent a proposal to tax beekeepers to pay for […]

Insecticide Now Labeled For At-Plant Use FMC Corporation’s Brigadier insecticide has received registration for at-plant use in potatoes.. […]

If we learned anything from the almond harvest in 2010, it was that the quality of almonds exiting […]