The Wonderful Co., a major player in the industry, has developed a rootstock that yields up to 40 percent more nuts with the same amount of water and soil. Wonderful's pistachio orchards, located ...

About a fifth of California's pistachio crop is grown in areas that rely exclusively on groundwater for irrigation, Yraceburu said, adding he expects some of these orchards will eventually come out of ...

Industry experts say pistachio orchards can withstand drought better than some other crops and take less water per acre than the state’s biggest nut crop, almonds. Much of the crop is headed to China.

Now, Wonderful grows between 15% and 20% of the U.S. pistachio crop, he said. Its pistachio orchards stretch across vast tracts of dust-filled farmland northwest of Los Angeles also lined with ...

The company has grown pistachios since the 1980s, but it ramped up in 2015 after developing a rootstock that yields as much as 40 per cent more nuts with the same soil and water, said Rob Yraceburu, ...

The company has grown pistachios since the 1980s, but it ramped up in 2015 after developing a rootstock that yields as much as 40% more nuts with the same soil and water, said Rob Yraceburu, president ...