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    Funny thing Sergsadag, just this morning an article appeared on The Land backing up your view:

    SOUTHERN NSW's almond orchards are abuzz in readiness for spring - the great bee migration has begun.

    More than 100,000 commercial bee hives have recently settled among almond crops in southern NSW and northern Victoria to assist the growers produce what's been forecast as a bumper crop.

    Almond producers depend on the bees' pollination services, which brings their trees' nut set to between 90 and 100 per cent.

    Griffith grower and Almond Board of Australia Riverina grower representative Denis Dinicola, Mandole Orchard, Lake Wyangan via Griffith, said the season could not have been better.

    "It's been a perfect winter for almonds, because it's been nice and cold," said Mr Dinicola.

    There has been an even bloom across all the trees at the Dinicola's orchard, where there are about 60,000 trees.

    All the buzz for almonds

    There was also an update on the Hilltop Ranch website overnight, which notes that the predicted arrival of rainier El Nino conditions in September looks increasingly unlikely:

    The long-term forecast is calling for seasonal weather to persist through October and into, if not through November before rains return to the long-term outlook.  As the below graphic depicts, the drought is forecast to persist, if not intensify in our region, between now and the end of November.

    Another article earlier this week from a local Californian news site quoted an almond grower, who seemed to think that the Californian harvest will fall short of the 1.8 billion pound forecast earlier this year:

    Dave Phippen, a principal of Travaille & Phippen in Manteca, counts himself lucky.

    With a modest water cutback from the water district serving his orchards and well water to make up the difference, he said, “Our trees don’t know there’s a drought.”

    Still, his yields from the nonpareil variety — now being harvested and which accounts for 35 to 40 percent of all California’s almond crop — may be down 15 percent from a year ago.

    “My crop, my trees are off,” he said.

    Based on that and reports from other areas in the state, Phippen said the statewide harvest will likely be short of the 1.8 billion pounds forecast July 1 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and well off from the more than 2 billion pounds collected in both 2011 and 2013.

    Drought stress weighs on almond crop

    Overall, it appears that the almond price is likely to remain strong in the months ahead.
 
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