Sentences with phrase «almond orchards»

The acquisitions will be funded via a $ 61 million capital raising, which will also provide funding for the development of further 1000 hectares of almond orchards leased to Singapore's Olam at Darlington Point in the NSW Riverina and an earlier acquisition of 259 hectares of macadamia orchards near Bundaberg.

And that's just what scientists and farmers are testing out with almond orchards in California.

I was surprised to learn that almonds are the only crop that is 100 % dependent on honey bees for the pollination of its crops and every spring more than a million colonies of honey bees are placed in California almond orchards to pollinate the crop.

The proceeds have helped fund the development of new almond orchards — the biggest source of its income — and acquisitions in new high - value markets including buying macadamia orchards in Bundaberg and a $ 42 million portfolio of cattle breeding and finishing properties in Northern Queensland, lifting the value of its total portfolio to around $ 350 million.

Out of the 2.4 million commercial bee colonies in the country, 1.3 million only pollinate almond orchards.

Almond orchard operator and nut distributor Select Harvests was the best - performing stock, rocketing 270 per cent to $ 5.09 at Friday's close.

That deal was the largest since Swiss fund Adveq Real Assets, joined by US - based Municipal Employees» Retirement System of Michigan and the Danish Danica Pension Fund, purchased 18,000 hectares of almond orchards on the Murray River near Robinvale for $ 211 million in 2013.

For two months this winter Dahlke and her team will flood almond orchards in the Central Valley near Davis to a depth of two feet by redirecting rainfall through a network of ditches originally designed to divert floodwater away.

However, his findings are limited to queen bees reared near almond orchards where these pesticides are used, he warns.

Relax in an artist's home and cottage garden, set in an old almond orchard.

Young almond orchards with a water well and / or secondary access to water are commanding prices over $ 15,000 per acre.

But instead of it all being former cotton or tomato fields, a lot of the new almond orchards were formerly natural landscapes, including wetlands.

Currently, Rural Funds leases more than 3300 hectares of almond orchards to ASX - listed high flyer Select Harvests and Singapore giant Olam with a further 2100 hectares under development.

This includes tomato farms and almond orchards in California, berry farms in Oregon, and fruit orchards in Washington.

Many Montana honeybee hives spend winter months in intensive agriculture regions (e.g., California almond orchards) before returning to a variety of forage -, prairie -, and grain - dominated landscapes in Montana.

The company's roots can be traced back to the 1880s, when John Bean invented a continuous spray pump he used to treat his almond orchards, and which he soon began selling to other growers.

Adveq's executive director Berry Polmann said the fund was «convinced about the potential of the almond orchards and looked forward to building a farming relationship with Olam, centred around sustainable practices.»

Rural Funds Group has booked a $ 35m boost to the value of a 2500 hectare almond orchard being developed in the NSW Riverina.

We grew up next to an almond orchard and few of the trees hung over into our yard.

Vast monocultures — such as the almond orchards of central California and the soybean fields of Argentina — bloom for only three or four weeks each season, offering no food for bees the rest of the time.

«Hundreds of colonies go into an almond orchard at a time,» Mattila says, «so food can get spread pretty thin.»

The conversion of lands to almond orchards was sparked by a rapid growth in demand and rising almond prices.

But they do know hundreds of thousands of pounds of them are used in almond orchards each year.

I guess she must have an almond orchard in her back yard.

At two hives per acre, it now costs roughly $ 500 million to pollinate California's 1.25 million acres of almond orchards.

«Though beekeepers nationwide have felt the hurt from these mysterious disappearances, California's beekeepers, who rely on bees to pollinate their almond orchards (a nearly $ 3 billion - a-year industry), have been particularly hard - hit in recent months.

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