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California also leads the nation in walnut production, producing 100 percent of all walnuts grown in the United States. [12] As a result of the trade war between the United States and China, farmers in California received about $76.3 million in federal subsidy payments from USDA, where some of the subsidies were received by walnut farmers. [13]
Stealing nuts is non-violent and possession of nuts is also not illegal itself. [4] [7] California produces 80% of the world's almonds and 99% of America's, [7] and is the world's second largest producer of pistachios and walnuts. [4] California's nut industry makes over $9 billion a year. [5]
Although almonds are not native to California, a hot, dry Mediterranean climate and developed water infrastructure create favorable conditions for commercial cultivation of the crop. [2] In 2020, there were 1.25 million acres (5,100 km 2) devoted to almond farming in California, producing 2.8 billion pounds (1.3 Mt). [3]
In the United States, production is concentrated in California where 400,000 ha (1,000,000 acres) and six different almond varieties were under cultivation in 2017, with a yield of 2.25 billion pounds (1.02 billion kilograms) of shelled almonds. [52]
State Food type Food name Image Year & citation Alabama: State cookie Yellowhammer cookie: 2023 [1]: State nut: Pecan: 1982 [2]: State fruit: Blackberry: 2004 [3]: State tree fruit
California produces almonds worth $5.3 billion every year. That is 100% of commercial almonds in the United States, 100% of all of North America, and 80% of commercial almonds around the world. Agriculture is a significant sector in California's economy, producing nearly US$50 billion in revenue in 2018.
Blue Diamond Growers is an agricultural cooperative and marketing organization that specializes in California almonds. Founded in 1910 as the California Almond Growers' Exchange, the organization claims to be the world's largest tree nut processing and marketing company. It serves 3,500 almond growers, and helps make the almond crop (valued at ...
Diamond Foods, Inc. was an American packaged food company based in San Francisco, that marketed nuts (particularly walnuts and almonds) and other snack foods.Diamond Foods was acquired by Snyder's-Lance in 2016, and as of 2018, Campbell Soup Company owns Diamond Foods's former snack brands; Diamond of California, Diamond Foods's nut business, is owned by Blue Road Capital.