Nut, Olive and Prune Programmatic News

Two rising freshmen from Visalia’s El Diamonte High School served as volunteers in the UCCE Tulare County pistachio research program this summer. Kai Takehana Boring and Sophie Defty prepped foliar samples gathered from field research plots in Lost Hills, CA for nutrient analysis. These laboratory-based…

Recent studies conducted by scientists at UCCE and CSU Bakersfield demonstrate that a common disease prevalent in vineyards and orchards may impact long-term orchard longevity of almonds in the southern San Joaquin Valley.  Almond orchards with a high incidence of crown gall, a disease caused by a…

UC ANR Farm Advisor, Elizabeth Fichtner partnered with Julie Cates and Isabel Beltran, two 6th grade teachers at Linwood Elementary in Visalia to merge education on ancient Greece with concepts of ethnobotany and modern agricultural production in Tulare County. Students were introduced to the concept of the…

This blog contains archived digital materials published or created by the Tulare County Cooperative Extension prior to April 24, 2026 that are not digitally accessible.Tulare County is the home to production of four different nut crops—almonds, pistachios, walnuts and pecans.  Over the past 20 years,…

This blog contains archived digital materials published or created by the Tulare County Cooperative Extension prior to April 24, 2026 that are not digitally accessible.Late March through mid-April marks the time of pistachio bloom in California’s Central Valley. The dynamics at bloom not only determine the…