Nut, Olive and Prune Programmatic News

Tulare County is the home to production of four different nut crops—almonds, pistachios, walnuts and pecans.  Over the past 20 years, however, pistachios have dominated new plantings. In just 15 years, from 2009 to 2024, pistachio acreage in Tulare County grew five times. Pistachios currently occupy…

Late March through mid-April marks the time of pistachio bloom in California’s Central Valley. The dynamics at bloom not only determine the anticipated yield of the crop but also offer predictors of nut quality at harvest.  Although many factors affecting bloom are outside of a grower’s control, there…

Local walnut growers, PCAs, and members of allied industries braved the dense Tule fog to attend Tri County Walnut Day, an annual event hosted by UCCE Tulare County.  The program attracted over 50 attendees, as well as speakers from throughout the walnut-growing regions of the state. Currently, over 3…

The University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) hosted Statewide Pistachio Day on January 21, 2026. The event attracted over 500 attendees, including growers, PCAs, crop managers, and members of allied industries.  Attendees were either growing or influencing…

Since the introduction of olive fruit fly to California, the California Olive Committee has sponsored olive fruit fly monitoring programs in the Sacramento and southern San Joaquin Valleys. These programs rely on weekly data collection from traditional sticky traps installed over wide geographic areas in…