California supplies 82 percent of the world’s almonds and has almost 7,000. The tariffs add about 12 cents per pound to shelled almonds, a 20 percent increase. The hit from China tariffs was ...

NEWMAN, Calif. (AP) — California almond growers are used to dealing with swings in the weather and water supply. Now they must also grapple with the uncertainty of trade battles as the Trump ...

In 2022, there were 24 million acres devoted to farming and ranching in California. The average farm size was 351 acres. A ...

How do you thread this needle and not sound like a whiner?” Take, for example, almonds, which are California’s most valuable food export, making up roughly 20 percent of the state’s $23.6 ...

Take, for example, almonds, which are the state’s most valuable agricultural export, making up roughly 20 percent of California’s $23.6 billion ag export market (followed by dairy products ...

Almonds are California’s biggest agricultural export, and the state reeled in $4.7 billion from almond exports in 2022 with about half going to the European Union and India, state farm data shows.

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