#California#almonds get $6 million to help expand its market. The Almond Board of California is getting $3,185,690. The #money is coming from the ATP. It is one of three #USDA programs created to mitigate the effects of unjustified #trade retaliation. https://t.co/sZ7s07gt6j
Btwn mid-Feb & mid-March, #almond tree buds burst into beautiful white & pink blooms. Most #almondtrees are not #selfpollinating, so orchards are grown with multiple varieties, & #beekeepers bring hives of #honeybees to orchards to provide the missing piece of the puzzle.
“Today USDA NASS announced a projected 2.45-billion-pound crop for the 2018 California almond harvest. For more on the 2018 California Almond Objective Measurement Report, visit: https://t.co/uv1TeFHQtT
Crop development and freeze evaluations, pests start to show up, and more in our Blue Diamond Crop Progress Report for April 30, 2018
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#agriculture#almonds
What Chinese Tariffs Targeting American Crops Will Mean For Farmers (Especially containers that are in transit!) #almonds#pistachios#pecans#tariff https://t.co/IZRNZPIncl
The famous San Saba “Mother Pecan” Tree is over 200 years old and known as the tree that has given rise to the modern day pecan as we know it. Read more at https://t.co/gKx37I7EPw
#pecan#motherpecan#sansaba
Interestingly, for the season-to-date (Oct-Feb), California just experienced one of its widest year-to-year precipitation swings on record: extreme whiplash between record-wet start to 2016-2017 and extremely dry start to 2017-2018. #CAwx#CAwater
Are you a #pallet buyer of #nuts? Almond Fine Meal, Natural Flakes and Roasted meal now available on the NutExchange. #nutexchange#almonds https://t.co/nYwh5noObN
Much-needed Sierra Nevada snow on the way, with coastal rain likely too. But we're not yet on a Miracle March trajectory. And what does the #PolarVortex have to do with things? New post on the #WeatherWest blog: https://t.co/7QWWlCWdtx #CAwx#CAwater#CAdrought