…2022, a decrease of seven percent from the year prior. Grapes, citrus, milk, almonds, and pistachios were once again the top five overall commodities. Combined, the five represent 66 percent…
California Crop Conditions Heading into July
…almonds have been progressing well, with meat fill already complete. The maturation of pistachios, walnuts, and pecans is also underway. Pest and disease pressures have been relatively low in most…
Almond Matters: Pest Management in Tree Nuts
…in other tree nuts. “If you’ve got pistachios, there’s Gill’s mealybug. If it’s problematic, Senstar is really good there. I worked on data trials to support that registration. It had…
DPR Confirms Another Reduction in Pesticide Use in 2021
…interest.” Alfalfa, carrots, cotton, rice, walnuts, pistachios, processing tomatoes, and peach and nectarines are also in that category. Collectively, commodities of interest represent 72 percent of the total amount of…
AgNet News Hour: Friday, 03-17-23
…a mandatory tractor rule, and a shift in leaffooted bug species impacting almonds and pistachios. Tune in to the show for these news stories, interviews, features, and more. Listen to…
Almond Matters: Managing Leaffooted Plant Bugs in Orchards
…sanitation or some type of broad-spectrum application, they’re there and they’ll move out of those pomegranates onto tree fruit, onto almonds, and pistachios.” After overwintering in areas like pomegranate orchards,…
Agronomic Minute: Protecting Pistachio Orchards from Disease
…dormant disease spores could be moving through orchards. Depending on how the weather turns in the next few weeks, could determine how impactful those spores could be in pistachios. “With…
California Pistachios Have Economic Impact of More Than $6.4 Billion
A recent study shows that California pistachios have an economic impact on the state of more than $6.4 billion. The 2022 study was commissioned by American Pistachio Growers and conducted…
California Chill Report: Getting the Most Out of Orchards with Low Chill
…labeled for walnuts in California. It also last year got labeled for pistachios. So if you’ve been looking at the Dormex label, make sure you get a very up-to-date label…
Chef Martin Yan New Pistachio Ambassador
…Industry Annual Conference in Carlsbad, California, where Yan is slated to teach more than 1,000 pistachio farmers how to prepare his trademark Kung Pao Chicken with Pistachios themselves. With a…
California Chill Report: Starting Small with Dormancy Breaking Materials
…working with Dormex in pistachios. The research is showing promising results, but Khezri suggests getting familiar with the material before widespread application. “Most of the pistachio growers and farm managers…
Almond Update: Advancing Pest Management Practices
…neighbors and say, ‘okay can we work on this together?’” Ludwig explained. “It’s not just for almonds. It’s for almonds, walnuts, and pistachios since we all know that navel orangeworm…
California Chill Report: Facilitating Bloom Synchronization to Boost Yields
…noted that the project will continue. As pistachios are an alternate bearing crop, there are considerations as to how that could impact production results in the research. “This year we’re…
VofV: Stuart Woolf Talks Agtech from Apple Computers to Almonds
…and all that.’ So he really started to focus on crops that were unique to California like almonds and pistachios where we had global competitive advantage. He narrowed it down…