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Grower Insights: Jeff Schmiederer on Roots, Rootstock and Regulations
If you take a walk through Jeff Schmiederer’s Mendota-area pistachio orchards, you’ll see trees of various ages and…
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Walnuts
Decisions, Decisions…
When it comes to planting a new walnut orchard, growers and farm managers throughout California’s walnut growing regions…
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Weed Management
Fall Weed Control a Good Prep for Winter’s ‘Heavy Lifting’
As harvest comes to a close and tree nut growers and PCAs start looking to next year, fall…
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Pest
A Look Back at 2008-12 Navel Orangeworm Area-Wide IPM Project and Development of Mating Disruption for NOW
In principle, an area-wide integrated pest management program (AW-IPM) is a coordinated effort to target an entire pest…
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Ag Industry
Don’t Be Left in the Dark
During the hot summer (and early fall) months, nut growers, farm managers and their crews aim to start…
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Walnuts
Postharvest Concerns for Walnuts
Harvest is finished, and it’s tempting to sit back and rest from the work of the season. But…
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Hazelnuts
Orchard Layout in Hazelnut: Take Orchard Spacing, Variety and Equipment into Consideration
It all begins with spacing. While the temptation exists to maximize the land and plant as many trees…
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Irrigation
A Pound of Brrrrr: Late-Season Irrigation Can Help Prevent Freeze Damage to Walnut Trees
Walnut growers, particularly those in the northern Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, used to view sudden fall freezes…
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Ag Industry
‘Transformational’ Budget Offers Hope for Tree Nut Research and Extension
For the first time in years, tree nut industry executives are enthused over the University of California Agriculture…
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Orchard Management Monthly Newsletter
Bot-Phomopsis Disease Updates for San Joaquin County Walnuts
University of California researchers recently provided new research findings from 2020 on Botryosphaeria and Phomopsis canker and blight…
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Orchard Management Monthly Newsletter
Plan Out Fall Almond Postharvest Nutrient Management
If plant tissue analyses determine a need, almond growers should consider adding postharvest boron, zinc and/or potassium applications…
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Orchard Management Monthly Newsletter
‘Early Warning’ Monitoring Tool in Development for Optimized N Management in Pistachio
A new pistachio research project is developing an optimized nitrogen management tool for ‘early warning’ monitoring in ‘Golden…
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