California is known worldwide for its walnuts — producing 720,000 tons last year alone. But right now, some growers are giving up on the classic California crop.
-Elmo
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I used to love driving to work past walnut orchard after walnut orchard when I first started out at Safeway's warehouse. Big stately trees, always nice and cool under the canopies.
As the years went past, there were fewer and fewer of them, although it didn't have anything to do with shipping, money being the culprit when nut farmers realized the profits to be made with almonds instead.
