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California growers beware. Newly published study expects three major pests — codling moth, peach twig borer, and Oriental fruit moth — to rise up.
Learn tips to minimize potential sudden autumn freeze damage, which has hit walnuts hard in recent years.
National Pecan Shellers Association predicts this year’s crop estimate for Oklahoma at 22 million pounds.
Each year, the Walnut Bargaining Association issues a minimum price recommendation based on current crop and economic conditions.
American Fruit Grower Editor David Eddy says talking tough is all well and good, but the goal is to get things done.
Multiple farmers across the storm’s path provide account to get an idea of the true impacts Idalia had on the state’s ag sector.
For a fifth-generation almond and walnut farmer from California, seeing is believing when digging deeper into the soil biology in his orchards.
The just-released 2023 walnut crop forecast from USDA is at 790,000 tons, up 5% from 2022.
Too bad more of the residue from California’s bountiful winter can’t be stored.
Clarice Turner brings global executive leadership experience in consumer products and food service.
Producers spent 2022 battling many nuisances, including fire blight, spotted wing drosophila, birds, and deer. Some succeeded. Some didn’t.
Growers struggled to conduct routine fertilization because of the deluge of atmospheric rivers.
California’s heavy rains and following spring snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada demonstrate tremendous opportunity.
Planting of the popular nut crop continues as consumption of pistachios grows, though tariffs cloud the horizon.
Managing weeds without herbicides is a challenge. Learn how Burroughs Family Orchards in California is succeeding in its approach.
First of a series of learning opportunities launches to address potentially massive impact on the state’s specialty crops.
Researchers say rare plant disease outbreak of Phytophthora syringae similar to El Niño-influenced events during the 1990s.
Thanks in large part to recent wild weather impacts, report from USDA NASS indicates yield per acre could be the lowest in nearly 20 years.
Prolonged flooding has potentially serious disease impacts beyond food safety.