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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Australia’s largest almond producer has found a profitable new use for its shell waste that will also improve its soil health. ASX-listed Select Harvests, which holds 9000ha of almond orchards in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

Samajo Biomass is a project that uses the “hard-shelled India-type almond,” she said, to produce a renewable, ecological, environment-friendly fuel that does not release toxic gases into the ...

Almonds are helping feed cattle, sheep and pig stocks around the country, with their discarded hulls used for a cheap option to grain. The outer shell is usually wasted after processing, but due to ...

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 ...

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 ...