…very active role in helping deter nut theft thru their leadership in the industry. Service to Farm Bureau Award John Gamper John Gamper retired in February 2017 from 39 years…
Agri View: Spring Crop Damage
…days before spring. It hit fruit growers with a vengeance. Especially peaches and blueberries. Damage to peach trees, and the spring crop, has been estimated at about 40 percent. No…
Earth Day Love
…laws. Including the Clean Air Act and the Endangered Species Act. Today, Earth Day continues to be widely celebrated. The most common practice is planting new trees. As it falls…
Yellow Almond Trees More Widespread?
…growers have called them about the issue. “When we see yellow almond trees in the spring, it’s often tied to too wet of soils,” Tree Nut Farm Advisor David Doll…
Almond Board: Air Quality Programs
…“low-dust” nut harvester technologies instead of conventional nut harvesters; stabilize unpaved on-farm roads and vehicle traffic areas with dust suppressants; establish windbreaks and shelterbelts around animal feeding operations; install a…
Deadline to Apply for Funding to Grow the Bioeconomy June 28th
…biomaterials from renewable sources such as crops, trees, and waste materials from farmland and forests. Funding is made through NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), authorized by the 2014…
Almond Matters: Assessing Fertility in the Orchard
…West talked to Valent’s Pat Clay. Valent’s Manager of Field Development, Pat Clay, said almond growers should be estimating yield around this time of year. “Right after nut set during…
HLB Tree Triggers New Quarantine
…one large zone that includes areas of Los Angeles and Orange Counties. A total of 53 trees in California have tested positive for HLB disease. Another three trees were confirmed…
Agri View: Growing The Avalon Pecan
…mentioned a few days ago. Seedlings will go on sale for the first time this spring. Here is why buyers are anxious. It is a big nut. That makes it…
$21.8 Million to Combat Citrus Disease
…has invested more than $57 million through the Citrus Disease Research and Extension Program since 2014. Among recent projects, Clemson University researchers are using naturally HLB-resistant citrus trees to develop…
Agri View: Peach Crop Outlook
…something to brag about. Especially in the southeast. Not enough chill hours on the trees. According to industry officials peach trees need at least 1000 hours of temperatures around the…
USDA County-Level Data Dispute New NWF Study
…from the trees? If you were going into the orange juice business, would you build your processing plant in Maine, thousands of miles from the citrus groves of the Gulf…
Weeds, Weeds, Control Those Weeds
…Patton says that’s not always the best solution because… because they drift really easily into the breeze and they can damage non-target plants. So, it affects the redbud trees, the…
Agri View: Long Shot Crop
…sustained hard freeze in the late 1950’s killed most of the trees. So farmers simply turned to other crops. Some farmers are giving it another shot. There is increasing number…