U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue traveled to Southern California this week to visit avocado growers and the California Avocado Commission (CAC). During his stop, Perdue toured an avocado ...

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), have successfully developed a new avocado tree after more than 50 years of research and development. UCR’s news website reported that the ...

Tree growers and researchers across Florida are continuing to try to reduce the harm caused by a decades-old disease that’s impacting avocado production. “A boat came into Port Wentworth, Georgia, ...

Avocado and citrus groves have adorned the hilly landscape ofrural North San Diego and Southwest Riverside counties for decades.But in just a few years, their lush, semitropical foliage could ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue is in San Diego County Monday to meet with production workers, tour an avocado farm and visit the San Diego Zoo. The agriculture secretary ...

Editor's note: The earlier version of the story incorrectly identified one of the streets near the orchard. The street is Day Road. With the help of several companies, an underutilized acre on the ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KABC) -- UC Riverside received more than $4 million to help save avocados in California. The federal money will allow researchers to find ways to protect avocados from Laurel Wilt, ...

Bad news for the new avocado toast coffee shop down the block: No one is buying avocados anymore. That’s what the farmers are saying, at least. Agriculture companies’ stocks are falling dramatically ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY – Many area avocado growers taking stock oftheir losses after last month’s wildfires burned 5,880 acres ofcounty groves have discovered that they have ineffective cropinsurance ...