Nov 20, 2009 10:20 AM
Almond Board-funded research being conducted by UC plant pathologist Dr. Jim Adaskaveg since 2006 demonstrates that the scab pathogen Cladosporium carpophilum has become resistant to strobilurin fungicides in orchards in the northern San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys with a history of high disease pressure and multiple sprays....
Nov 19, 2009 11:06 AM
The California Almond industry will collaborate in four research projects that were recently awarded nearly $1.5 million in matching grant funds under the USDA's 2009 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program....
Nov 18, 2009 10:17 AM
The latest California Crop Weather report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Sacramento, Calif., field office:...
Nov 16, 2009 11:09 AM, By Dennis Pollock, Contributing Writer
A shake-up in the California pistachio industry is not limited to the machinery that rumbles through orchards and jostles nuts from the trees....
Nov 13, 2009 11:30 AM
California Almond industry members will be presented with recent research findings and trade developments addressing the most pressing issues they face in growing, processing and marketing the state's premier specialty crop at the 37th Annual Almond Industry Conference, to be held Dec. 9-10, in Modesto....
Nov 12, 2009 10:08 AM
Growers in the eight-county San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District have until January 2010, to replace older, high-polluting, Tier 0 diesel engines greater than 50 hp with EPA-certified Tier 3 or Tier 4 engines. ...
Nov 11, 2009 11:24 AM, By Gabriele Ludwig, Director of Regulatory and Technical Affairs, Almond Board of California
Health care has dominated the national debate in recent months, but as a resolution appears near, climate change is likely to again take center stage. ...
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