Almond Living Magazine

Almond Board Expands Whole Almond Orchard Recycling Research

Almond Board of California is currently funding research on how best to recycle almond trees’ various coproducts – hulls, shells and woody material in an impactful way. Through this research, California almond growers are learning about the potential of new ways to deal with tree material resulting from the removal of old orchards other than traditional cogeneration burning. While sending...

California Delegates Get First-Hand Look At Israel’s Agricultural and Water-Saving Innovations

Since the introduction of modern drip irrigation systems at a desert kibbutz in the early 1960s by water engineer Simcha Blass, Israel has emerged as one of the most climate-smart agricultural regions in the world. To get a first-hand look at the innovative irrigation and planting strategies and technologies, Almond Board of California (ABC) Director of Agricultural Affairs Bob Curtis...

California Almond Crop Projected to Increase

This year’s California almond crop is forecasted to surpass 2 billion pounds for the first time since 2013, according to the California Almond Objective Measurement Report announced Wednesday by Almond Board of California (ABC). Based on 900,000 bearing acres, the objective forecast for the 2016-2017 crop is 2.05 billion meat pounds. The ABC-funded forecast is administered by the United States...

California Almonds: The “Ne Plus Ultra” of Quality Control

Thanks to the California almond industry’s quality control programs, consumers around the world enjoy the consistent high quality and safety of California almonds. In fact, the food safety program established by Almond Board of California (ABC) is held up as a prime example in the produce industry. You might say, like two of California’s most popular almond varieties, it is...

Almond Board Expands Ag in the Classroom Education

Many students, and even adults for that matter, don’t realize that almonds grow on trees. Even more, they’re often unaware that California is an agricultural powerhouse with more than 400 crops grown here. Almond Board of California (ABC) is committed to closing this gap in understanding; specifically educating elementary students, so they can better understand where their food comes from...

Bee-ing Good Partners for Honey Bee Health

Honey bees are essential to agriculture — helping produce approximately one in three bites of the food we eat. They are also essential to the vitality of the almond community. Without the honey bees that pollinate our trees every spring, there would be no almonds. And without almond blossoms, the bees would lose their first important natural source of nutritious...