Walnut growers heard in-depth about a different walnut pruning approach that is gaining popularity because of the early benefits the trees are showing. Pruning Approach Gaining Popularity Walnut growers, of…
2016 Award Winners for Agriculture, Technology
…Peach Association. He was founding partner of the Sacramento Valley Walnut Growers LLC., a walnut processing and marketing enterprise, and has served as Chairman of that organization since 2006. In…
LBAM Quarantine Change
…are apple, pear, peach, apricot, nectarine, citrus, persimmon, cherry, almond, avocado, oak, willow, walnut, poplar, cottonwood, Monterey pine and eucalyptus. Some common shrub and herbaceous hosts are grape, kiwifruit, strawberry,…
How is Climate Change Affecting Agriculture?
…increased rice, tomato and alfalfa acreage while winter wheat could decline. Among trees and vines, the most sensitive to climate change are walnuts, which require more chill hours. Walnut acreage…
Scale Treatments Lasting Several Seasons
Courtesy: UC ANR Advisors are seeing scale treatments in walnut orchards last multiple seasons and could stretch out the need to treat even further than current practices. Treatments Lasting Several…
Monitoring for Scale Crawlers Earlier
Courtesy: UC ANR Seeing where you’re at with scale management is important for Walnut growers this time of year and one common monitoring practice needs to start being done earlier…
Some Mating Disruption Becoming Cheaper
Courtesy: UC ANR It’s also that time of year for walnut growers to be monitoring for codling moth and some updates on mating disruption might make the practice a little…
Time for Walnut Scale Monitoring
…really is. Walnut Scale Monitoring Cooperative Extension Area Integrated Pest Management Advisor Emily Symmes gave a scale management update recently at a walnut meeting in northern California. Symmes says it’s…
Almond Board: New Incentive to Reduce Dust
…the agency is offering a new incentive option for almond and walnut farmers (and potentially others) to use cleaner harvesting technology. According to Carlos Suarez, State Conservationist for NRCS in…
Sanitation Key for NOW, No Matter the Nut
…Sanitation Key for NOW Walnut growers can take advice from almond growers when it comes to NOW management. “We know now that it is becoming an increasing problem in walnuts,…
New Air Quality Incentives for Nut Farmers to Adopt Low-Emission Harvesters
…a new incentive option for almond and walnut farmers (and potentially others) to use cleaner harvesting technology. According to Carlos Suarez, State Conservationist for NRCS in California, eligible farmers may…
Newly Identified Enzyme May Be the Culprit in Pierce’s Disease Grapevine Damage
…Disease Board of the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Additional information: * Related: Fused genes tackle deadly Pierce’s disease in grapevines: http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10151 * Related: UC Davis cracks the walnut…
Walnuts and Calories
…Walnut Commission website: Walnut History & Cultivation Find out about their origins in ancient Persia, why they became known as ‘English Walnuts’, and how California became a center for walnut…
UC Davis Cracks the Walnut Genome
…California Walnut Board to develop genetic markers for use with classical walnut breeding. The first step was to sequence the walnut genome, which, unlike most major agricultural crops, had never…