Representatives from the Almond Board of California, Duarte Nursery, Blue Diamond Growers, UC Cooperative Extension and other ...

Merced College is celebrating a major step as students planted more than 1,000 almond trees across 10 acres of land.

First came the asparagus field. Then came the melons. And now Joe Del Bosque is considering the unthinkable: tearing out a sprawling almond orchard bursting with healthy, nut-producing trees. “It’s a ...

Wood chips from recycled almond trees are spread across an orchard in California's Stanislaus County. (Brent Holtz, UCANR) Recycling trees onsite can sequester carbon, save water and increase crop ...

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FIREBAUGH, Calif.-- As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California's agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley, where a ...

Almond trees across Solano County and the rest of California are shedding their blossoms as the 2026 bloom winds down, but a stretch of February storms has left local growers watching the weather — ...

Stanislaus County’s finest floral display, the almond bloom, has brightened the winter landscape once again. The flowers last from mid-February to mid-March on about 210,000 acres of orchards. Each ...

Water & Drought California’s lucrative almond orchards face a reckoning with drought, climate change By Dale Kasler Updated September 5, 2021 3:58 PM Firebaugh First came the asparagus field. Then ...