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PTNPA hosts 2023 Operations and Technical Food Safety Summit

The annual summit provides venue for experts to collaborate and share best practices for nut industry businesses committed to food safety. more »

USDA shares Indian Meal Moth can destroy packaged food

Plodia interpunctella, better known as the Indian Meal Moth, is normally found where you store your grains and can impact packaged nuts. more »

USDA invests $33 million to support research, Extension and education projects

The USDA announced an investment of more than $33 million to support capacity-building efforts at 1890 Land-grant Universities. This investment, administered through USDA’s National Institute of Foo... more »

Canada’s Global Hypergrowth Project selects Vive Crop Protection

Vive Crop Protection Inc. has been selected as one of eight companies for the inaugural cohort of the Government of Canada’s Global Hypergrowth Project. Canada’s Global Hypergrowth Project (GHP... more »

CDFA shares developments in nitrogen and irrigation initiative

As part of CDFA’s work to facilitate stewardship of water and natural resources, the agency is pleased to discuss recent developments in the nitrogen and irrigation initiative. A three-year, coll... more »

FIRA USA presents ag robotic solutions and demos

FIRA USA attracts both participants and ag leaders to the Salinas Sports Complex from Sep. 19-21 for a global event on ag robotic solutions. more »

Growers react to India’s plan to remove retaliatory tariffs on almonds, walnuts

India’s agreement to remove retaliatory tariffs on some U.S. farm products is seen as a positive development, but with some trade impacts remaining, farmers and agricultural exporters say it may tak... more »
Blude Diamond market report feature

Blue Diamond Almonds provides market update

Blue Diamond provided its Blue Diamond Almonds Market Report – July 17, 2023, which indicated that the 187 million pounds of May shipments were in “the low end of industry expectations.” Almo... more »

New agricultural officers sworn into foreign service

Alexis M. Taylor, under secretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs for USDA, administered the oath of office to 11 employees of USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service who will serve American ... more »
Almonds at sunset. Photo courtesy of Almond Board of California.

California Almond Objective Measurement Report estimates a 1% percent increase in almond crops

The 2023 California Almond Objective Measurement Report published Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA-NASS) estimates that the crop h... more »

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