Bitter almond trees haven't been banned in the United States since 1995; the FDA has only cracked down on people peddling bitter almond derivatives as a cancer cure.

USDA-NASS California Almond Objective Measurement Report estimated that the state's almond harvest will reach 3 billion ...

The global increase in demand for protein has been a boon for tree nuts generally and almonds specifically. It takes a year to grow an almond crop on a tree that has been in the ground for at ...

It’s not hard to find bitter almond trees in local orchards, he added, but tough to convince a processor to hull and shell the nuts: California sweet almond growers, who harvested 525,000 acres ...

Native to the Mediterranean where almond trees grew wild, almonds were later cultivated by local people as long ago as 3000 BC, according to Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Almond trees are widely believed to be among the world's first domesticated trees. Archaeological evidence of cultivated almonds dates back to 3,000 B.C.

Almond trees aren’t responsible for killing the bees; pesticides and large-scale industrial agriculture methods are killing them. The strategy of shifting blame away from corporations and onto ...

The knowledge of the almond tree's genome will be a very important tool in the improvement of the species. "For example, this information will enable us to look for more productive and more ...