Almond Living Magazine

U.S. Dietary Guidelines: Our Public Comments

Every five years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) jointly publish a new edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. A new edition is due out in December 2015. The Dietary Guidelines provides advice for making food and physical activity choices that promote good health, a healthy weight, and help...

More Almonds Does Not Equal More Water for Agriculture

As California suffers through a historic drought, many in our state have looked at the acres of almond orchards throughout the Central Valley and assumed that the rapid growth in our industry has contributed to the state’s woes. With headlines like “It takes 1 gallon of water to grow an almond,” it seems easy to conclude that a shift towards...

Statement from the Almond Board of California on the White House Pollinator Health Task Force Strategy

The Almond Board of California (ABC) thanks the White House, USDA, and the many other agencies on the federal Pollinator Health Task Force for their diligent work developing the federal strategy to understand, prevent and recover from critical declines in pollinator populations, particularly honeybees. Without pollinators there would be no almonds – nor many of the other crops that are...

Turlock Journal Wins Award for Story on Almond Grower

Congratulations to the Turlock Journal for it First Place award in Agricultural Reporting in the California Newspaper Publishers Association’s prestigious annual “Better Newspapers” contest. The Journal’s peers honored the paper for an article by Elizabeth Arakelian on the resourceful irrigation and farming practices of California almond growers like Chuck Dirkse of La Mancha Orchards in Denair. Dirkse had a prior...

Almond Board Chair Mike Mason tells state ag board growers are water efficient

Mike Mason, chairman of the Almond Board of California, spoke last week at a public meeting of the California State Board of Food and Agriculture this week to share an almond grower’s perspective on the drought and discuss steps the industry has taken to improve efficiency over the years. Click here to view the webcast. Mason told the board members...

Almond Growers Talk About Farming During Drought

MSNBC ran a great segment this weekend about some of the challenges almond growers face while farming during drought, as well as some of the innovative technology they’re using to precisely monitor and irrigate exactly according to needs. Check it out.