Almond Living Magazine

Almond Industry is Leader in Sustainable Farming and Groundwater Research

Farming has been a family business for ages, and California’s many multigenerational almond farms are no different. Farmers want to pass their land and legacy on to their children and grandchildren, and in order to ensure that productive farms are left to pass on when that day comes, almond farmers in the Central Valley are sustainable 1 stewards of their...

Almond Harvest Innovations Help to Improve Air Quality

Almond Board of California (ABC) and the California almond community continue to use innovations and responsible practices during harvest to protect California air quality without sacrificing production efficiency, and help ensure that future generations will inherit land and orchards that have been managed responsibly and sustainably. 1 Almond harvest is a three-step process that involves a shaker machine that shakes...

ALMOND COMMUNITY’S WATER MANAGEMENT PRACTICES RECOGNIZED AT INTERNATIONAL FOOD SCIENCE CONGRESS

There are several factors driving a growing interest in understanding environmental impacts and their economic implications. Consumers are increasingly becoming more interested in the environmental effects of their food choices, while manufacturers and retailers proactively plan for supply chain stability. It is perhaps unsurprising then that Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) were a hot topic at the recent International Union of...

ALMOND COMMUNITY’S WATER MANAGEMENT PRACTICES RECOGNIZED AT INTERNATIONAL FOOD SCIENCE CONGRESS

There are several factors driving a growing interest in understanding environmental impacts and their economic implications. Consumers are increasingly becoming more interested in the environmental effects of their food choices, while manufacturers and retailers proactively plan for supply chain stability. It is perhaps unsurprising then that Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) were a hot topic at the recent International Union of...

ALMONDS ARE NOW "HEALTHY," ACCORDING TO FDA

If you’re like most people, you probably always thought almonds were healthy. But until this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not allow almonds to be called “healthy” on food labels, due to the agency’s regulatory definition of the term that considered a food’s total fat content, rather than distinguishing among different types of fat. As of...

A Year in Review: The Almond Board of California

As we finish up the 2016 almond harvest, we are embarking on what we call a new “crop year” – meaning the time from harvest to harvest. The past crop year of Aug. 2015 – Aug. 2016, saw more than 1.8 billion pounds of almonds, 3.7 billion pounds of hulls, and 1.3 billion pounds of shell shaken from California’s almond...