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Ag tech companies can court possible investors at the AgTech Conference of the South.

California’s 2017 almond acreage is estimated at 1.33 million acres, up 7% from the 2016 acreage of 1.24 million acres.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has updated a recall of microgreens products from Greenbelt Greenhouse with new “best before” dates that suggest consumers might still have the products in their refrigerators.

Health officials have linked a death in California to an E. coli outbreak from romaine lettuce grown in Arizona, and the numbers of sick people continues to increase.

The high-tech ag revolution on produce farms is on the menu at a luncheon sponsored by Western Growers and the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

America’s love of the pistachio will be mostly spared from any fresh sanctions against Iran, a major world producer of the nut.

Sure, Windsor Castle in England is a nice spot for a royal wedding, but the California Avocado Commission has a better idea.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, citing lack of interest from growers, has put an end to a campaign for a national research and promotion program for organic produce and other products.

Alex Ott is leaving the California Apple Commission and other commodity boards to become the full-time executive director of the American Pecan Council.

I have discussed the results of an online survey we put out in conjunction with The Packer’s 125th-anniversary publication several times in this space.