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 ...

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 ...

SCS Global Services announced today that Bullseye Farms is the world’s first almond farm to be independently certified under the internationally recognized “Sustainably Grown” standard for ...

Kathy Smith actually heard the almonds coming before she saw them. “It’s 11:30 at night, we are trying to sleep, and those tractors are ripping the land right outside our bedroom,” she recalls. She ...

Raul Rios carries his ladder as he moves to the next area with other workers to harvest Fuji apples at the Britton Konynenburg Partners orchards on West Grayson Road. [email protected] The remarkable ...

Nunes Farms sits just outside of Modesto in the small farming community of Gustine. The cash crop for Nunes Farms is almonds but the drought has made this season’s crop unpredictable, to say the very ...

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 ...

MODESTO — The El Niño rainstorm had already turned Nick Blom’s almond orchard into a quagmire. Still, he wheeled open the lid of a massive irrigation pipe. Fifteen minutes later, a gurgling belch ...