Researchers at UC Davis have bred a new variety of walnut designed to provide growers a way to harvest earlier and boost the efficiency of California’s $1.6 billion walnut industry. The new “UC ...

The UC Wolfskill walnut will allow growers to harvest earlier and still provide quality, yield and color of the state’s leading variety. (Jeanine Hasey) University of California, Davis, ...

Walnuts, a top California export crop, grow in orchards like this. Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have for the first time sequenced the genome of a commercial walnut variety. The ...

The Walnut Bargaining Association increased its minimum price recommendation on Oct. 16 to 70 cents per pound in-shell. That’s based on jumbo/large Chandler walnuts of good quality. “We urge walnut ...

A bountiful 2014 walnut crop in China prompted that country to pull out of the California export market, which lowered commodity prices and could hurt the growers’ bottom line. China has been the ...

This year, growers and law enforcement teamed up to crack down on walnut theft. New rules were passed by Butte and Glenn counties to make it more difficult to sell walnuts without proving where they ...

It’s well established that year-to-year warming during California’s winters is sending a chill of its own through the state’s walnut growers, who are experiencing the toll taken on their crop. But ...

Around 12,000 pounds of Chandler walnuts was taken from a truck south of Messick Road in Sutter County on Tuesday, according to officials at the Sutter County Sheriff's Department. The value of the ...

Scientists at UC Davis have for the first time sequenced the genome of a commercial walnut variety. The information should accelerate the rate of breeding and variety improvement in walnuts and help ...

The information should accelerate the rate of breeding and variety improvement in walnuts and help breeders select for desired traits such as insect and disease resistance, and drought tolerance. UC ...