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Digital Twin: Precision Tool Elevates Management Decisions
Monitoring orchard soil health and moisture is a routine in tree nut orchards that directs inputs to minimize costs and ensure good yields and…
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Orchard Management Monthly Newsletter
How One Grower Is Integrating Cover Crops and Sheep in Orchard Management
Pistachios
American Pistachio Conference Highlights Market Growth, Nutrition Research
As the pistachio industry prepares for a potential on-year crop of up to 1.5 billion pounds, growers and industry experts gathered at the 2025…
Weed Management
Exhausting the Weed Seed Bank with Cover Crops
Weeds, much like stocks, can yield dividends in the form of weed seeds if allowed to mature. These seeds accumulate in the soil, forming what is…
Pistachios
Oro Vista Farms Donates Money, Land and Resources to Expand Pistachio Breeding Program
UC Davis is enhancing and expanding its Pistachio Breeding Program after a generous gift from philanthropist and pistachio grower Rod Stiefvater…
Almonds
A View from the North: Orchard Management Considerations for April
The days are longer (and hopefully warmer than in March). Almond nut set should be coming into focus. If almond growing was a card game, it’s time…
Walnuts
Tri-County Walnut Day Focuses on Profitability Strategies for South Valley Growers
Speakers at the 53rd annual Tri-County Walnut Day in Tulare acknowledged the recent tough walnut market but stressed strategies to improve the…
Almonds
From the Board: When and What to Replant, and Creating Niche Markets: A Conversation with James Chinchiolo
More and more growers are facing the complex decision of what to do with fallowed or unplanted land. If replanting the land remains an option…
Almonds
When Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees “a Tale of Two Nut Farmers”
A panel of experts in agricultural financing addressed growers at the North Valley Nut Conference at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico, Calif…
Regulations
Next Round of Produce Safety Rule Inspections Hit Nut Orchards in April
California Department of Food and Agriculture inspectors are expected to take a deeper dive into growing and harvest practices when they begin…