It’s been an unusual harvest season for California almonds. In July, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service predicted that this year’s crop could be the second largest in history, with an estimated harvest of 3 billion meat pounds. In early August, a rat infestation surged across 100,000 acres of orchards […] The post The Effect of Red Leaf Blotch on California Almonds appeared first on Serving Agriculture Since 1907.