Young Pistachio Orchard Nutrient Management 101 with Bob Beede via Pacific Nut Producer When is it too late to plant a pistachio orchard? How do you properly care for these young trees and ensure they get all nutrients they need to someday become healthy high yielding trees? Watch the interview with UCCE Farm Advisor Emeritus…
When to Start Irrigating Young Pistachios in a Wet Year Form Pacific Nut Producer Magazine As growers have experienced a wet winter and early spring, it may be a little more difficult to determine exactly when to start irrigating their young pistachio trees. In some cases, they might also notice what appears to be a…
Pistachio Harvest Calculator to Help Growers with Harvest, Market & Budget Planning Fresno State researchers created an online pistachio harvest predictor to assist San Joaquin Valley growers in predicting yields for one of the area’s most popular crops. The free website will help growers with their harvest, market and budget planning. It was created by…
Orchard Task List for Pistachios August 2018 By Bob Beede, U.C. Farm Advisor, Emeritus I Misinformed You! At this year’s American Pistachio Growers Annual Conference, I made a presentation about navel orangeworm mating disruption and used the successes in Mating Disruption of codling moth and Oriental fruit moth(OFM) as support for the implementation of…
Pistachio Orchard Task List for July 2018 By, Bob Beede, U.C. Farm Advisor, Emeritus Crop Update: Hey, did you hear about the two pistachio farmers who pulled their pickups next to one another to ask what the price of WORMS was this year? The answer is up to 20 cents more per pound from base…
Pistachio February 2018 Task List Robert H. Beede, UCCE Emeritus Rain and Irrigation: For those readers not in California, it is drier than a petrified doggie log here! Speaking personally, I am shocked at it being the exact opposite of last year. Last year, we were worried that the Oroville Dam was going to break,…