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Why Almonds are a Perfect Exercise Food to Keep You Prime

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Employee Q&A: Dr. Karen Lapsley, Chief Scientific Officer

In our ABC Q&A series, we bring you brief interviews with some of the minds driving innovation at the Almond Board of California. We speak to a wide variety of folks who work here at the Almond Board, exploring topics from research, to conservation, to favorite almond recipes. Today we talk to Dr. Karen Lapsley, Chief Scientific Officer at the...

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Celebrating World Bee Day with Beekeeper Jamie Johnston

Sunday marks the first annual World Bee Day! The result of a recently adopted UN resolution, May 20 is set aside to “spread awareness of the significance of bees” and lands on the birthday of Anton Janša, a Slovenian teacher of apiculture and pioneer of modern beekeeping. We sat down with fourth-generation beekeeper Jamie Johnston to talk about how her...

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ATTN: Almond Coproducts Can Help Our Environment

Almond trees grow more than just our favorite nut! They actually provide four valuable products – the almond kernel we eat, shells that protect the nut and are used as livestock bedding, fuzzy outer hulls used as dairy feed, and the tree itself. At the end of their productive lives, almond trees can be ground up to improve soil quality...

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Almond Farmer Mike Curry: ‘Being creative with water is a way of life.’

This op-ed was written by Mike Curry and originally appeared in the Modesto Bee. Mike is a board member of the Almond Alliance, alumni of the Almond Leadership Program and an almond huller and sheller with Johnson Farms, a fourth-generation owned and operated almond farm in Denair. “It comes down to two choices: go nuts, if you will, worrying over...

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Connection Forged at The Almond Conference Yields On-Farm Irrigation Improvements

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 Former math and physical education teacher Mike Story left teaching two years ago to convert his family’s land into almond orchards. While he was entirely new to growing almonds, learning and education were nothing...

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Increased Almond Acreage Means Increased Value to Local Environment

Today, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service reported that California’s almond acreage increased in 2017. Bearing acres, that is orchards old enough to produce a crop, were reported at 1 million acres, which is up 6 percent from 2016. Total almond acres for 2017 were estimated at 1.33 million acres, up 7 percent from the previous year.1 As you may have...