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....
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....
The latest California Crop Weather report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Sacramento, Calif., field office:...
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....
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....
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. ...
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. ...
The latest California Crop Weather report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Sacramento, Calif., field office:...
Members of the first Almond Industry Leadership Program are about to conclude a year-long program of study, observation, and participation in settings that range from a job shadow at the state Capitol to board rooms to almond growing and processing facilities. ...
Paramount Farms, the world’s largest vertically integrated supplier of pistachios and almonds, has opened its new $24 million, 22,800 square-foot almond manufacturing plant in Lost Hills, Calif....
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