Even after a bruising year of lower earnings, crop losses and soaring production costs, California almond growers may not be willing to cut corners pollinating their trees this season. That’s good ...

NEWCASTLE (CBS13) — Beautiful blossoms are emerging across Northern California, and those blooms mark the start of an agricultural event like no other — something beekeepers call the big dance. Hidden ...

One of the nation’s top snack companies plans to exclusively source its almonds from “bee-friendly farmland” across the globe by 2025. KIND Healthy Snacks said it expects its almond suppliers to ...

California is the world’s greatest producer of almonds, although the crop is not native to the region. Almond farmers rely on pollination from bees, but past practices have endangered the very insects ...

A honeybee buzzes between branches of an almond tree in one of Sarbdeep Atwal’s orchards on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. The California State Beekeepers Association expects too few bees for California’s ...

California’s almond bloom is on full display. As one of nature’s most fascinating pollination events, this often attracts attention from around the globe. As CEO of the world’s leading almond grower ...

Biplane cropduster applying fungicide to almond trees near Brooks, California. It seems like almost everyone I know started feeling guilty over almond milk since a rash of headlines blaming almonds, ...

California’s almond business has skyrocketed in the past 20 years — it’s now an $11 billion industry — and the space taken up by almond groves in the state’s Central Valley is approximately the size ...