The California Walnut Commission announced in December a new scientific and research partnership with the American Heart Association to support early career scientists interested in human clinical or epidemiological research, related to the health benefits of walnut consumption.

The Nut Growers Society of Oregon’s virtual winter meeting Jan. 21 will feature discussions on Oregon State University hazelnut research, a hazelnut stewardship program, an update on tariff impacts and other topics.

Texas pecan industry member, Jim Lampman of DeLeon, Texas, died Dec. 26.

A coalition of agricultural and business employers has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court challenging the COVID-19-related emergency temporary standards recently approved by the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board.

Outsized wildfires, rising sea levels and disappearing glaciers are dramatic signs of climate change, but not the only ones. New University of California Agricultural and Natural Resources research provides forewarning of a change that will be economically and environmentally costly to California – a fifth generation of navel orangeworm, the most destructive pest of almonds, walnuts and pistachios.