WASHINGTON, D.C. (RFD NEWS) — Pollination expenses moved unevenly across specialty crops in 2025, with almond growers facing sharply higher costs while several fruit sectors saw declining rates, ...

The USDA Economic Research Service released the June Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook on June 18. Though the monthly report is focused on sugar prices and production and import volume, this month’s report ...

Earlier this summer, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released an objective estimate for the 2025-26 almond crop year. This report called for a crop size of 3 billion pounds, which was ...

California almond growers are on track for their second-largest harvest in history, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture projecting a 2025 crop of 3 billion meat pounds, up 10 percent from last ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA-NASS) released its 2025 California Almond Objective Measurement Report on Thursday, projecting a crop of 3.0 billion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bee flies near an almond bloom at a Harris Farms almond orchard in Chowchilla. A menacing pest, with a name to match, is being ...

Last month, trucks loaded with beehives rolled into Desert Creek Honey’s Fresno-area facility, delivering millions of honeybees primed to pollinate almond trees across the Central Valley. But ...

A virus spread by mites is responsible for the death of 60-70% of commercially managed bee colonies in the U.S. The varroa mite, resistant to common miticides, carries the deadly virus. Other factors, ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and pollinators become uncoordinated, even for a ...

A menacing pest, with a name to match, is being blamed for knocking out more than half of the nation's supply of honey bees, according to the latest survey of bee colonies. Scientists, researchers and ...