As Central Valley almond production increased by more than 350,000 acres over the last quarter century, many growers previously unfamiliar with the crop planted orchards, some of them even new to tree ...

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 ...

In keeping with the Patrick Ranch Museum’s mission to enhance “people’s understanding and appreciation of our community’s rich agricultural heritage,” a half-acre plot planted in heirloom almond ...

The most valuable part of an almond tree is still the nut. But the rest is slowly catching up. Byproducts that used to be burned in the open air — shells, hulls and the wood itself — are becoming a ...

For much of the last decade, almonds have been such a lucrative crop that growers and investment firms have poured money into planting new orchards across vast stretches of California farmland. Now, ...

Almond trees in Kings County infected with wood rot fungus just fall over. BOB JOHNSON Special to The Bee Fresno County’s $1.2 billion almond industry has a scary new threat: a mystery fungus that ...

Recycling orchard trees onsite can sequester carbon, save water and increase crop yields, making it a climate-smart practice for California's irrigated almond orchards, finds a new study. Recycling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A blooming almond orchard near Sanger in unincorporated Fresno County. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) For much of the last ...