At one year in, OS is now expanding into more crops! We’re officially serving: 🌳Almonds 🌳Pistachios 🌳Walnuts 🍎Apples 🍒Cherries 🍊Citrus V2 will be here soon, and that means more features coming to OS 🦾 🤖

For decades, experts have done their best to estimate the size of California’s almond crop prior to harvest. With the state producing most of the world’s supply, the global market rises and falls with the fate of the Central Valley crop. Expectation of a shortage can stoke competition among buyers and raise prices, while a large crop forecast can achieve the opposite. “It affects many lives,” said Jasbir Sidhu, who grows almonds in Fresno and Madera counties. But the expansion of California’s almond industry, which brought greater variation from one orchard to the next, made it harder to forecast statewide yields by sampling a subset of orchards. In December, the Almond Board of California’s directors voted to stop funding a key forecast provided for decades by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Instead, the industry is looking to private entities to find new ways to estimate the crop. While counting nuts may not be rocket science, some firms have leveraged experience in aerospace engineering—using technologies such as remote sensing and machine learning—to forecast crop yields. Read more in Ag Alert: bit.ly/4dUWJ16 #News #AgAlert #CAFarmBureau #Almonds #CentralValley #RemoteSensing #YieldForecast #Orchards

High early heat could result in a smaller nut set for almonds, though some larger hulls are being found. Meanwhile, orchards enjoyed a good bloom and growers may expect to harvest as early as July. @BountifulAg CEO Megan Nunes spoke about these findings. pacificnutproducer.com/2026/…

High early heat could result in a smaller nut set for almonds, though some larger hulls are being found. Meanwhile, orchards enjoyed a good bloom and growers may expect to harvest as early as July. @BountifulAg CEO Megan Nunes spoke about these findings. californiaagnet.com/2026/05/…

California is heading into its fourth straight spring of strong water storage, with most of the state’s major reservoirs nearly full, despite one of the worst snowpacks in recorded history. State reservoirs are at 118% of the historical average for late April. Four consecutive years of strong storage is a remarkable streak for a state that has spent much of the 21st century going from one record-breaking drought to the next.

Happy Earth Day to all and especially the farmers who care for this land every day of the year. 🌳🌍

Another Central Valley outbreak of strong to severe thunderstorms today with a possible tornado touchdown this afternoon near Fresno. This is the 7th day in 2026 with at least one Tornado Warning issued in California 🌪️

We spent last week in Washington visiting customer's orchards during cherry and apple bloom. 🍒🍎 Feels a lot like almond bloom in California. Bees were out flying and pollinating! 🌸🐝

BREAKING: Caterpillar Inc. acquires self-driving electric tractor startup Monarch — dubbed the "Tesla of agriculture"

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Significant nut drop post weather (hail) over the weekend in this Monterey/NP block in Merced county.