Darrell Cordova Stanislaus County tree nut farmer
In almonds, when the hull splits, we’ll be putting in product for the navel orangeworm, and we’ll be putting the fungicide on the Independence, which is a little more susceptible to alternaria (leaf spot). The heat stresses them pretty fast. We don’t want to stress the trees be- cause we’d lose crop that way. We’ve been having to irrigate. It’s so hot in the afternoon that we’ll start the water in the evening, let it run through the night and shut it off at noontime. We’ve also had a lot of wind, especially on the old- er trees, that we’ve reduced the amount of water time, because if they get too much water, it’ll knock trees over. We’ve been adjusting our irrigation schedule because of the heat and wind. We were trying to do weed spraying, but with this wind, it’s been hard to find days that were calm to even get out there and do any weed spraying. We don’t have any surface water. We have a deep well. Our water district fi- nally had to submit a plan this year, so we’ll see what happens. We had to pay $30 an acre every other year to have the district do groundwater recharge. We’re hoping that groundwater recharge shows that we’re being proactive and we won’t have the severe cutbacks. We’re going to be doing pistachios to diversify. We planted some pistachio rootstock the end of March. They’re about pencil size. We’re going to be budding them the middle to the end of July. We’re trying to get them to grow right now because the rootstock has to be a certain size to be able to do the budding. The heat makes them grow, but for a long time the weather was on the cooler side, so the trees weren’t growing. Now that it’s warmed up, they’re finally getting some growth on them.
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