2025 Almond Fungicide Efficacy and Timing Tables
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Winter Chill & Dormancy Management – 2025 Update
Kat Jarvis-Shean, Orchard Systems Advisor UCCE Sacramento-Solano-Yolo Depending on where you grow and how you count, this is shaping up to be a low-to-moderate chill winter. As discussed previously in 2023 and 2024, walnuts are one of the highest chill … Continue reading
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Almond Orchard Management Considerations: February & March 2025
Almond Orchard Management Considerations: February & March Becky Wheeler-Dykes, UCCE Farm Advisor, Glenn, Tehama, and Colusa Counties Luke Milliron, UCCE Farm Advisor, Butte, Glenn, and Tehama Counties Weed management: Prepare your preemergent herbicide program with your PCA. Cost savings in … Continue reading
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Rootstock options for your next prune orchard (2024)
Luke Milliron, UCCE Orchard Advisor Butte, Glenn, Tehama Franz Niederholzer, UCCE Orchard Advisor Colusa, Sutter-Yuba Jaime Ott, UCCE Orchards Advisor Tehama, Butte, Glenn, Shasta The Skinny: Your rootstock choice should guard against your greatest fear for your new orchard, whether … Continue reading
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Assessing the Needs of Agricultural Producers in Butte, Glenn, and Tehama Counties
Domena A. Agyeman, UCCE Agriculture and Natural Resources Economics Advisor; Butte, Glenn, and Tehama Counties Introduction This report summarizes the primary challenges reported by agricultural producers from Butte, Glenn, and Tehama counties who participated in an economics needs assessment survey. … Continue reading
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2024 Prune Season Retrospective
North Sac Valley: Jaime Ott, UCCE Tehama, Shasta, Glenn, Butte Counties Despite a much earlier bloom than last year, harvest started only a few days earlier. Fruit size and sugar at harvest was variable: blocks with heavy cropload or which … Continue reading
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Carbohydrates, dormancy, and yield in pistachios
Recent years of research by the Zwieniecki lab (the Z Lab) at UC Davis, including the Carbohydrate Observatory, have been providing exciting new insights to better explain how pistachios may be counting winter chill, when budbreak occurs, and how much pistachios will yield in a given year. Continue reading
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New Threat to California Almonds: Red Leaf Blotch
In late May 2024, unusual symptoms on leaves, including yellow spots and orange to dark red-brown blotches, were detected in an almond orchard (Nonpareil, Monterey and Fritz) on the border of Merced and Madera counties. Continue reading
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Is it time for a closer look at alternative nutrient sources?
With continued tight nut markets and high input costs, it’s worth considering all nutrient input options in an effort to lower costs and maintain production. Sustainable nutrient management includes assessment of irrigation nitrate, adding compost manure amendments or almond shells, and using nitrogen-fixing cover crops. Continue reading
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Small steps boost net grower returns
Almond growers are in a long tunnel of low prices and high costs. With volatile nut prices largely out of grower control, cost management and cost-effective yield improvements offer the best hope of maintaining headway and reaching the light. Continue reading
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Protecting Sacramento Valley Waterways from Pyrethroid Exceedances
As farmers have reduced their reliance on organophosphate insecticides for pest control, there has been a shift to other control tactics. Most challenging for the topic of watersheds has been a shift towards increased use of pyrethroids. In general, the amounts found are low, nevertheless, cases of exceedances do occur, and these cases need to be eliminated. Continue reading
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Drought Strategies for Walnut Orchards
With 41 California counties officially in a drought emergency and water allocations significantly reduced in many areas, many growers and managers are stuck with less water than walnuts use for prime production levels. Read this article for more information about how to manage walnut irrigation in drought years. Continue reading
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Playing Potassium Catch-Up?
Fertilizer management with thin margins is extra tricky with almonds because varieties can yield so differently within a year. Post-harvest can be a great time to start catching up on potassium. Continue reading
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Roller Crimping – A Cover Crop Termination Option
Annie Edwards and Margaret Smither-Kopperl with the USDA recently released a report on termination using a roller crimper in orchard systems. Continue reading
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Checking Cropload and Shaker Thinning Prunes
When needed, shaker thinning can improve a grower’s bottom line this year and next year. Careful, timely thinning increases A & B size fruit production, limits small, lower value prunes in the bin at harvest and improves return bloom next year. Continue reading