Almond Orchard

Supplemental Pollination Shows Potential

By Cecilia Parsons Every year in early February, University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) farm advisor Elizabeth Fichtner said, she gets calls from anxious almond growers about using supplemental pollination in their orchards to ensure profitable yields. Challenging WeatherGrowers have concerns about almond pollination, she said, when the extended weather forecasts call for cool, cloudy[…]