Q: We have two almond trees and since they produce nuts we assume that one is male and the other one female, although we do not know which is which. However, one tree bears almost no nuts. I just ...

MODESTO — The latest California almond objective measurement report, released on July 3 estimates that the 2019 almond crop will be 2.20 billion pounds, down 3.5 percent from the 2018 crop production ...

Reporting from Wasco, Calif. — It’s not clear exactly when almonds became the scapegoat for the California drought. Maybe it was last August, when the Atlantic posted “The Dark Side of Almond Use,” ...

On a sunbaked August morning, off a rural road in the heart of California’s Central Valley, a low-slung tractor rumbles between neat rows of identical, light-green trees. To its right, a plume of dust ...

Atwater,-- Merced County - A huge shift away from annual crops to nut trees has transformed the California farm belt over the past two decades and left farmers perilously vulnerable to the severe ...