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 ...

Houston Wilson, a researcher with the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center, walks in an almond grove. (Gary Kazanjian / For The Times) In a windowless shack on the far outskirts of ...

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 ...

OAKDALE — California almond farms are struggling to pay the bills with low prices for their nuts. Trinitas Farm, an almond farm in Oakdale, filed for bankruptcy in February due to falling almond ...

FRONT OF THEM. IT’S JUST LIKE IT WAS DANCING AROUND OUT HERE AND JUST WIPING OUT TREES. AFTER DECADES OF WORKING IN AGRICULTURE, DARRYL CORDOVA HAS COME TO EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED. WE DIDN’T EXPECT ...

Almond trees might not be your first thought when looking for plants to grow in containers, but these spring-blooming trees ...

Central Valley almond farmers are losing the battle to a widespread rodent infestation that’s caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage to crops throughout the region, impacting the entire ...

Every year, navel orangeworms eat through roughly 2% of California’s almonds before they can make it to grocery store shelves. With climate change threatening to make the situation worse, researchers ...