Most avocados sold in the U.S. are imports from Mexico, where farming has environmental and human-rights impacts little known ...

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In traditional mikan strongholds like Shizuoka, farmers are growing increasingly concerned about future production and seeing ...

Still, demand for the trees has jumped due to interest from lemon growers — and since the November 2024 fire charred Ventura County avocado orchards, said Rob Brokaw, whose family-owned nursery ...

After dominating the U.S. for decades, California avocado farmers have been lapped by Mexican growers offering cheaper fruit. But one local farmer is fighting back.

"My avocado did not fall too far from the tree," Kachuck acknowledged. He studied music composition and briefly played keyboard — three days in 1976 — with the Pointer Sisters.

SOMIS, Calif. (AP) -- Andreas Tompros lost his home and at least a third of his avocado orchard to a wildfire last year, but the 47-year-old grower is not worried about his farm making a comeback.

As recently planted trees start bearing fruit in a few years, the region’s avocado production is likely to rise, said Korinne Bell, agricultural commissioner for the county northwest of Los Angeles.