Almond Living Magazine

Researcher Works to Mimic Nature with Tree Recycling

Almond Board of California is celebrating its community by running occasional features on farmers, processors, and others who support the industry, highlighting their commitment to sustainability. 1 As equipment rumbled, a group of California Almond farmers stood in an orchard in the San Joaquin Valley community of Manteca and listened to Dr. Brent Holtz as he described results of his...

From the Orchard: Making Every Drop Count

For many almond farmers, a regular orchard task is irrigation system maintenance. That’s a fancy way of saying that, just like you might keep an eye on your backyard sprinklers to ensure they’re working well, almond farmers closely monitor the functionality of each irrigation dripper or sprinkler throughout the trees’ growing season. Depending on weather conditions and location, almond trees...

Almond Board-Funded Research: Simple Swap-In of Almonds Can Add Up to Big Nutrition

Did you know that 92 percent of Americans snack sometime throughout the day, 1 and, often, more than once? So when you think about it, your snacking choices can be key to making or breaking an eating pattern. A recent study 2 funded by the Almond Board of California (ABC) and published in Nutrition Journal modeled the effects of replacing...

Family Matters: How Research and Hard Work Brought this Family Farm into the 21st Century

Almond Board of California is celebrating its community by running occasional features on farmers, processors, and others who support the industry, highlighting their commitment to sustainability. 1 It was 1919 when Matt Visser’s great-grandfather purchased the property where Visser Family Farms sits today and 1963 when his grandfather planted the farm’s first almond orchards. Since then, the Vissers have learned...

Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Bob Curtis Talks Commitment to Bee Health

Bob Curtis, director of agricultural affairs for the Almond Board of California (ABC), was on Food Navigator USA’s Soup-To-Nuts podcast with Elizabeth Crawford to discuss honey bee health and the precautions the California Almond community takes to ensure that bees are happy, healthy, and safe while they are in our orchards. A few of the almond community’s initiatives to help...

California FFA Honors Almond Community’s $47,000 Contribution to Students Interested in Ag

On April 23, the California Almond community was honored by the California State FFA for an ongoing commitment to the future of farming. Almond Board of California (ABC), and specifically the Almond Leadership Program, has played an instrumental role in supporting the California FFA by raising $27,000 in 2016, and a total of $47,000 since 2011, in scholarship funds. “It...