Inside a USDA research building near Berkeley, California, research leader Bill Orts holds up a mottled-looking black plate. It’s “really ugly,” he says. But the rough prototype is the first of its ...

Going zero or low waste is an essential step in the pursuit of reducing harm to the environment and slowing climate change. From composting to lessening single-use products, cutting waste has gained ...

Mostly a large waste stream to almond growers, almond shells and hulls turn out to have many commercial potentials, as mentioned in the article “Can Chemists Turn California’s Almond Trash into ...

The Almond Board of California and UC Davis have teamed up again. This time the cause is soil fumigation. After an orchard has passed its productive life, the trees must be taken out. Prior to ...

The time may have finally come to pay proper respect to the humble almond hull. In times past, the nut’s dry and somewhat bitter exterior was simply burned in the open, though these days it serves as ...

A massive fire at a west Fresno County almond hull processor could cost the company millions of dollars in losses, the plant manager said Sunday. The fire broke out Saturday afternoon at Superior ...

USDA is modifying the federal marketing order for California almonds in part to help the industry build new markets. A final rule that will take effect June 6 changes the definitions for “almonds: and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A stubborn fire continues to smolder at an ...

A new plant in Merced is turning some of California’s huge supply of almond shells into an especially rich fertilizer. Corigin Solutions hopes to counter climate change with this use of a nut ...

Almonds are the ultimate snack. Nutritious and satisfying, there’s a reason why these beloved nuts are pricey. According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, California’s almond crops ...

Madera farmer Denis Prosperi examines the almond crop at his ranch. Prosperi says it doesn’t tell the whole story to say it takes 1.1 gallons of water to grow a single almond. He says the unused parts ...