Kelly Watson lives in Kentucky. She studies honeybees and pollination. She has no interest in wading into California’s water wars, in which farmers and thirsty almond crops are pitted against ...
SAN FRANCISCO – California almonds are becoming one of the world's favorite snacks and creating a multibillion-dollar bonanza for agricultural investors. But the crop extracts a staggering price from ...
Almonds are now California’s most valuable crop. Only hay covers more acres. But almonds require lots of water, deepening the debate over how best to use that dwindling resource in these drought years ...
On a sunbaked August morning, off a rural road in the heart of California’s Central Valley, a low-slung tractor rumbles between neat rows of identical, light-green trees. To its right, a plume of dust ...
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