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When Stuart Woolf was a young man, he shrank from public speaking. Hated it, in fact. “I would…
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One size does not fit all, particularly when it comes to nutrition in young tree nut orchards. At…
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A small but increasing number of tree nut producers have enlisted sheep to graze cover crops, reduce mowing…
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Nitrogen is the most important mineral nutrient in tree nut crop production. It can be absorbed as nitrate…
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Pistachios have been growing wild in the Middle East as far back as 7,000 B.C., based on recent…
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Recent research on pistachio physiology is giving new insight into carbohydrate dynamics. Katherine Jarvis-Shean, a UCCE orchard systems…
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In 1980, when Carl Fanucchi helped plant the first pistachio orchard near Buttonwillow, Calif., he had no idea…
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Minimizing soil surface disturbance, maximizing soil cover and promoting conditions for viability of soil critters, including bacteria, fungi…
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Like the macronutrients nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, the micronutrient boron (B) also plays an essential role as a…
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Sacramento Valley pistachio acreage continues to grow, spurred by better prices compared to competing crops, a more positive…
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