A local horticulture expert told Ahern Family of Companies Vice President Lloyd Benson in 2016 that cherry trees would never ...

The 2024-2025 U.S. pistachio crop is forecast at 1.1 billion pounds in-shell, its third largest harvest — and that’s for an “off” year with alternate bearing production. With more acreage ...

Rows of young pistachio trees are planted at the Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds in Lost Hills, Calif., on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Credit: AP/Damian Dovarganes "There is an increasingly growing ...

Pistachio orchards can be sustained with minimal water during drought, unlike almonds and other more sensitive crops. The trees also rely on wind instead of bees for pollination and can produce ...

PARLIER, Calif. — In her prime, she was used to breed millions of disease-resistant trees, helping propel California's pistachio industry to international prominence. Today, the Mother Tree, as ...

Pistachio trees: The average tree bears its first crop around age 4 or 5. In its prime, around 14 years, it will produce 33 to 83 pounds yearly. Trees can live 100 years.

Pat Brown: So we're standing pretty close to the pistachio germplasm repository here, which has pistachio trees from all around the world, including the Mediterranean and even into North Africa, which ...

Pistachio orchards can be sustained with minimal water during drought, unlike almonds and other more sensitive crops. The trees also rely on wind instead of bees for pollination and can produce ...

With Spain getting hotter, the amount of land devoted to drought-resistant pistachio trees has jumped nearly five-fold since 2017 to 79,000 hectares (195,000 acres) ...

“There has been an explosion over the last 10 or 15 years of plantings, and those trees are coming online,” said Zachary Fraser, president and chief executive of American Pistachio Growers ...

Wonderful Orchards uses two machines to shake pistachio trees during harvest at the Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds orchard in Lost Hills, Calif., on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) ...