California almond growers have been plagued by canker diseases that have caused yield and tree losses for years. Yet some mysteries remain about what causes them and how to diagnose the problem. Those ...

You may not readily see it, but healthy spurs on this year’s almond trees set the table for optimizing yields next year. And it could be a mistake to weigh in with a heavy hand when it comes to ...

ALCALALÍ, Spain (CN) — A lethal Central American plant disease devastating olive trees in southern Italy is now killing almond trees in southern Spain, a serious development for an outbreak ...

Almonds are the top-grossing crop in Fresno County for 2020. Wet conditions are putting almond producers in the path of a rare disease that can cause widespread damage to orchards. A form of ...

An unsatisfactory approach to tree maintenance or pruning is “topping” it. Topping is the indiscriminant removal of branches of a tree above an arbitrary height, leaving unnatural, grotesque stubs and ...