Many almond growers are gambling that self-fertile almond trees will save enough from a reduced need for bees — and the ability to uniformly harvest and manage orchards of a single variety — to ...

The last 2 weeks have felt quite spring-like, particularly here in the valley, and has caused many trees to begin to bloom. Almond farmers are thrilled to see their trees blooming, but this sensitive ...

Pruning almond trees is an essential practice for any home gardener looking to ensure healthy trees and maximize nut production. With the right techniques and timing, you can help your almond trees ...

An international team led by researchers has sequenced the genome of the almond tree and compared it to that of its closest relative, the peach tree. The most substantive differences between these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stanislaus County’s finest floral display, the almond bloom, has brightened the winter landscape once again. The flowers last from ...

Trees in soggy almond orchards got a push from heavy winds this weekend, and many of them ended up horizontal. Darin Titus, field manager for Hart Farms in Orland, said his Monday was spent counting ...

Ben Barra farms 18 acres of Independence almonds southwest of Fresno, Calif. He says this will be his last foray into farming. Beekeepers flock from all over the country to California every February ...

Has the almond tree developed a unique way of drawing potential pollinators? A group of researchers in Israel speculate that the toxin called amygdalin that is found in almond tree nectar is in fact ...

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 ...

You can make milk out of just about anything nowadays: legumes, fruits, grains, you name it. One of the most popular sources of nondairy milk is, of course, nuts—or, more accurately, drupes. Almond ...

Beekeepers flock from all over the country to California every February and March to watch billions of honeybees buzz around the state's almond trees. Eighty percent of the country's commercial bees ...