Nut, Olive and Prune Programmatic News

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…

Orchard pest monitoring is typically conducted with traditional sticky traps that are checked weekly to evaluate changes in pest pressure to inform the timing of pest management activities. Trap counts provide a broad illustration of pest populations over a (typically) one week period, but fail to discern…

 Pecan bud break and bloom dynamics in the southern San Joaquin ValleyElizabeth J. Fichtner, Farm Advisor, UCCE Tulare County, Jennifer Randall, Professor, New Mexico State University, Richard Heerema, Extension Specialist, New Mexico State UniversityOf the four nut crops grown in California’s Central…