For much of the last decade, almonds have been such a lucrative crop that growers and investment firms have poured money into planting new orchards across vast stretches of California farmland. Now, ...

Almond growers across Central California say they are battling a surging rat infestation across more than 100,000 acres of orchards, resulting in economic hardship and damage. Across Fresno, Merced, ...

Sometimes, beauty should be admired from afar. In the case of Solano’s blooming almond orchards, make that very far. As with last year’s sunflower selfie debacle, almond orchard selfies damage crops, ...

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 ...

Almond trees are in full bloom here in the San Joaquin Valley, which is a great news for Almond growers, but may also cause problems with unwanted visitors. Many photo buffs flock to Kern County's ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The summer shakedown is underway in almond orchards all over Central California. Despite the triple-digit temperatures, work continues. Crews often start earlier in the day to ...

Wood chips from recycled almond trees are spread across an orchard in California's Stanislaus County. (Brent Holtz, UCANR) Recycling trees onsite can sequester carbon, save water and increase crop ...

In keeping with the Patrick Ranch Museum’s mission to enhance “people’s understanding and appreciation of our community’s rich agricultural heritage,” a half-acre plot planted in heirloom almond ...

FIREBAUGH, Calif. (AP) — As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California’s agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley, where a ...

Sometimes, beauty should be admired from afar. In the case of those blooming almond orchards, make that very far. As with last year’s sunflower selfie debacle, almond orchard selfies damage crops, ...

Recycling orchard trees onsite can sequester carbon, save water and increase crop yields, making it a climate-smart practice for California's irrigated almond orchards, finds a new study. Recycling ...