Central Valley residents could breathe easier during almond harvest if a method demonstrated Tuesday takes hold. Burroughs Family Farms has sharply reduced the dust stirred up when nuts are shaken to ...

Almond harvesting in the San Joaquin Valley. A financially troubled almond farm with ranches in Fresno and Tulare counties, as well as other parts of California, is on the verge of becoming the latest ...

As Brian Paddock walks through his 12-and-a-half acres of almond trees, he’s taking in everything. Paddock, like a lot of farmers, is a details guy. He pays attention to each tree, to the soil ...

Kind Snacks has launched a new pilot program aimed at reducing its ecological footprint in the almond harvesting industry. The three-year program, dubbed the Almond Acres Initiative, has been designed ...

How almonds took over the Valley It’s hard to overstate how much the almond business has grown in California. Plantings have exploded in this century, driven by a strong marketing push, favorable news ...

A glass of dairy milk produces almost three times more greenhouse gas than any plant-based milk. But vegan options have drawbacks of their own ...

California’s almond industry has relied on sustainable practices to thrive. But as global heating alters the environment in the state, farmers are adopting new climate-smart practices to adapt. I n ...

MODESTO — The almond orchard of the future will use less water and pesticide, and generate less waste and harvest-time dust, if goals announced Thursday morning by the Almond Board of California are ...

California’s almond business has skyrocketed in the past 20 years — it’s now an $11 billion industry — and the space taken up by almond groves in the state’s Central Valley is approximately the size ...

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