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With almonds' rising revenues, land values soar
Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Updated 12:42 pm, Saturday, January 12, 2013 | By GOSIA WOZNIACKA, Associated Press

Posted on 01/13/2013 12:00:50 PM PST by thecodont

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Bill Enns, a central California real estate agent specializing in farmland, fields dozens of calls every week from potential buyers. Many want almond, pistachio or walnut orchards — or any land suitable for growing nut trees.

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California's almond industry, which grows about 80 percent of the global almond supply and 100 percent of the domestic supply, saw the most dramatic growth — powered by strong demand from new money-spending middle classes in India and China. The growth has prompted a rush for almond-growing land and pushed almond land values through the roof.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/With-almonds-rising-revenues-land-values-soar-4189081.php#ixzz2Ht4HqjiG

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/With-almonds-rising-revenues-land-values-soar-4189081.php#ixzz2Ht4CiSNF

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: agriculture; almonds; trade
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To: Bon mots
In their natural state, wild almonds are mostly poisonous. It is a mutation that made them edible.

Must have been a very long time ago, they are mentioned in Genesis and other books of the O.T.

I don't know why it's mentioned as though it's not a nut (separately):

a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds

21 posted on 01/13/2013 3:42:37 PM PST by Graybeard58 ("Civil rights” leader and MSNB-Hee Haw host Al Sharpton - Larry Elder)
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To: Texas Fossil
There are some grown in Texas. I have 2 young trees in my orchard. And they are grown in South Texas.

Unless they have solved the rootstock problem, there isn't any commercial production of note in South Texas. Almond trees thrive, right up to yhe day they get cotton root rot, and die. Good luck with yours -- I've had some viniferera grapes for about seven years, and they have dodged cotton root rot and pierce's disease so far.

22 posted on 01/13/2013 3:46:10 PM PST by Pilsner
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Pretty pictures. Thanks for the link!


23 posted on 01/13/2013 4:24:16 PM PST by thecodont
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To: Pilsner

Topguard through a T-band, which dispersed the material along the furrow wall. It’s that application method that’s labeled by EPA.

The label also calls for 1 pint to 2 pints per acre and no more than one application per year.

For Texas cotton growers the old chemical works.


24 posted on 01/13/2013 4:32:22 PM PST by Scram1
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To: Pilsner

We have cotton root rot. It make kill the trees in the future, but so far OK. Have been told the same thing about apple trees here.

We will see.


25 posted on 01/13/2013 6:51:12 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Graybeard58
Yes, it was vey long ago, but we don't know exactly how it was discovered or domesticated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond

Jared Diamond wrote of this in his books, which is where I learned it.

The almond is native to the Mediterranean climate region of the Middle East, eastward as far as the Indus.[5] It was spread by humans in ancient times along the shores of the Mediterranean into northern Africa and southern Europe and more recently transported to other parts of the world, notably California, United States.[5]

The wild form of domesticated almond grows in parts of the Levant; almonds must first have been taken into cultivation in this region. The fruit of the wild forms contains the glycoside amygdalin, "which becomes transformed into deadly prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide) after crushing, chewing, or any other injury to the seed."[6]notably California, United States.[5]

Almond is considered to be one of the earliest domesticated tree nuts. Wild almonds are bitter, its kernel produces deadly cyanide upon mechanical handling, and eating even a few dozen at one sitting can be fatal. Selection of the sweet type, from the many bitter type in wild, marked the beginning of almond domestication. How man selected the sweet type remains a mystery.[7] It is unclear as to which wild ancestor of almond created the domesticated variety. Ladizinsky suggests the taxon Amygdalus fenzliana (Fritsch) Lipsky is the most likely wild ancestor of almond in part because it is native of Armenia and western Azerbaijan where almond was apparently domesticated.notably California, United States.[5]

While wild almond varieties are toxic, domesticated almonds are not; Jared Diamond argues that a common genetic mutation causes an absence of glycoside amygdalin, and this mutant was grown by early farmers, "at first unintentionally in the garbage heaps, and later intentionally in their orchards".[8] Zohary and Hopf believe that almonds were one of the earliest domesticated fruit trees due to "the ability of the grower to raise attractive almonds from seed. Thus, in spite of the fact that this plant does not lend itself to propagation from suckers or from cuttings, it could have been domesticated even before the introduction of grafting".[6] notably California, United States.[5]

Domesticated almonds appear in the Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BC) such as the archaeological sites of Numeria (Jordan),[7] or possibly a little earlier. Another well-known archaeological example of the almond is the fruit found in Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt (c. 1325 BC), probably imported from the Levant.[6] Of the European countries that the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh reported as cultivating almonds, Germany[9] is the northernmost, though the domesticated form can be found as far north as Iceland.[10]


26 posted on 01/14/2013 3:26:01 AM PST by Bon mots (Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
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To: Bon mots

Thanks, that was interesting and informative. I enjoy reading stuff like that. I guess I’m kind of a nerd at heart.

One more bible reference:

Numbers 17:8

And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.


27 posted on 01/14/2013 3:51:53 AM PST by Graybeard58 ("Civil rights” leader and MSNB-Hee Haw host Al Sharpton - Larry Elder)
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