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Crop Management
Recovery Starts Before Harvest Ends
Well, the dog days are upon us. So far in the middle of the San Joaquin Valley, our…
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Category: Nutrition
Crop Management
Late Harvest, Rising NOW Pressure: What I’m Watching in August
I‘ve been walking almond and pistachio orchards for 45 years, since I was a teenager driving my father’s…
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Crop Management
A Northern Perspective: Protect This Year’s Crop and Next Year’s Yield
August usually means the start of almond harvest, but shakers started early this year. Key August practices in…
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Nutrition
Grasses Play Key Role in Cover Crop Mixes
Cover crops often contain a mixture of plants that fall into one of four groups: legumes, brassicas, forbs…
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Agriculture
Soluble Calcium Can Help Manage Heat, Sodium and Water Penetration Challenges
Jump-Start June! Here comes the heat. With that comes heat stress, fruit development, water penetration issues and higher…
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Nutrition
What Trees Still Need When the Crop Is Not There
Here comes the heat. Unfortunately, the pistachio crop is way off this year. Very likely less than 1…
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Cover Crop
It’s Not Just Why, It’s How in Crop Nutrition
As farmers, we love to talk about the “why” we do things. “Why, I put out the same…
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Nutrition
Managing Salinity, Nutrients Key to Pistachio Productivity
Salinity and crop nutrient use concerns in the southern San Joaquin Valley were discussed at a workshop hosted…
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Almonds
A Northern Perspective
April brings a clearer sense of the 2026 almond crop set and the beginnings of the walnut crop…
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Fertilizer
Early Phosphorus and Calcium Set the Stage for Yield
Bloom is intense. Is there any other time when our trees go from bare to full solar panels,…
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