Merced College is celebrating a major step as students planted more than 1,000 almond trees across 10 acres of land. The project will give students hands-on experience working with crops from planting ...

By this time of year, Richard Lial’s Escalon peach trees – bursting with pink-white blossoms – should have been pruned. Soon the blooms would need spraying, and he would feed all 105 acres with the ...

For 60 hours a week, when seasonal work was available, the mother of three pruned nut trees or tended fields of melons or tomatoes in Colusa County.  She paid her rent. She stocked up on meat and ...