…1 Vanilla Bean 2 Cup Cream 1 Cup Pumpkin Puree 1 T Cinnamon 1 t Nut Meg To get the cooking directions, listen to today’s California Kitchen from AgNet West….
Clean Water Act: Report Details how Agencies Expand Authority
…action if they thought plowing the field to plant trees involved a discharge to wetlands. “The Corps regulator informed the landowner that despite an extensive farming history, orchards were never…
Drought May Accelerate Shot Hole Borer Spread
…trees that are stressed. As the drought continues and more of our landscape and crop trees are stressed for water, they’re more attractive to these types of beetles,” Bianchi said….
Tight Shell Means Less Pests
One way almond breeding is helping to reduce pests and disease is by looking for a happy medium between a tight shell and an easily cracked nut. Continuing our series…
Almond Board: Almonds Rise to Top in Europe
…ingredient, offering flexibility in terms of flavor and form. Top Nut in Many Categories Compared to other tree nuts, almond introductions hold top spots across the categories of confectionary, bakery,…
Farm Bureau: Senate Report Shows Federal Clean Water Act Overreach
…never to disturb them again. Still another farmer is ordered to abandon his plans to plant fruit trees because he had not planted trees on his land before. “Eleven senators…
Psyllid Spreads North, Found in Placer County
…day and the trees were destroyed. Agricultural inspectors from the Placer County Agricultural Commissioner’s office and the state immediately began an inspection of citrus trees in the area and the…
Research Targets Olive Knot Strategies
…and to protect olive trees from the disease. Most strains of the disease are sensitive to copper, but there is the potential for trees to build a resistance to copper…
Almond Board: Almond Conference Sessions
…a session on managing orchard salinity, a three-part series on tree physiology which looks at how an almond tree grows, tree nutrition uptake and management and how to manage young…
Western View: The Heritage of our National Parks
…Yosemite valley. In 1864, President Lincoln signed legislation that gave Yosemite and Mariposa Big Trees to the people of California, with the agreement that it would be used and preserved…
New Markets Sought for Walnut Sector
…term. Walnut marketers say they’re expanding their efforts to find new customers for the crop. Harvest has started for early walnut varieties. Peter Jelavich of Hawn Ranch Co., who began…
National Peanut Day
Cathy Isom has a national holiday for Americans to go nuts over, National Peanut Day! That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. National Peanut Day Today is National Peanut…
CA Navel Orange Objective Measurement Report
…of four trees surrounding the two trees of every third grove. These measurements were used to estimate an average fruit diameter per tree. Of the 537 utilized groves, 10 were…
Agri View: Pecan Marketing Order
…shelled nut exports have been on the rise since 2011 there are a lot of places that don’t even know what a pecan is. Including some places here in the…