Sacramento Valley Orchard Source

Irrigation Evapotranspiration (ET) Report for Tehama, Butte and Colusa county CIMIS stations.

Irrigation Evapotranspiration (ET) Report for the Woodland, Davis, Dixon, and Verona CIMIS stations.

Adequate potassium is critical to sustained yields in an almond orchard. There are many approaches to providing almond trees with the potassium they need, depending on your local climate conditions, orchard infrastructure and budget.

The higher the yield per acre early in the life of an orchard, the sooner the orchard covers development costs and returns a net profit to the grower. With new, well-anchored prune rootstocks now in the market, especially Krymsk 86 and Viking, it is worth reviewing young orchard pruning trial data.

The yellowing Howard problem is one specific instance of waterlogging induced root death. Howard appears sensitive to problems following cool, wet springs. The key management solution to the yellowing Howard problem is irrigation management.