Leader Sought To Head up California Walnut Industry Interests

For commercial growers, now’s the time to check for infestation.

Walnuts actually do better with deficit irrigation, but it’s hard to convince growers.

For the past three years, California growers have sustained November freeze events, causing extensive damage.

You can’t change the land where you farm, but you can control how productive it is.

Extension poll of California growers shows access presents greatest obstacle to sanitation, the most effective way to prevent navel orangeworm damage.

Changes favored by 80.57% of the growers voting, representing 82.81% of the total volume of walnuts.

Health research benefits the grower and handler community.

Learn how regenerative farming helps protect crops while providing additional benefits.

‘UC Wolfskill’ walnut is similar to industry standard ‘Chandler’, but can be harvested about two weeks earlier.

Fewer plan on increasing production than in years past — and it’s no wonder.

Complexities aside, walnut growers enjoy more options as cloning research advances.

Almond, pistachio, and walnut face different circumstances when it comes to pricing – and not just because of COVID-19 or tariffs.

Researchers find that infection rates soar when hulls split and eventually invade the kernel.

After banning chlorpyrifos, California funds expansion in use of low-risk pest control practices.

Studies show that attracting birds with hedgerows and older trees can prove beneficial in reducing pests like codling moth.

Some growers are keeping an eye on prices, but for much of the nut market, things are still full steam ahead.

Leading experts in pest management say removing and destroying mummy nuts is the best way to break the life cycle of this major pest.

New restrictions take a chunk out of growing markets say apple, walnut, and almond stakeholders.

No grower wants to leave trees parched but starting too early in the season can lead to both root and crown diseases.