Farm Progress

Paramount Farms pistachio harvest photos

Cary Blake 1, Editor

October 5, 2012

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If pistachios hit the 1 billion-pound milestone between 2018 to 2020, the U.S. commercial pistachio industry would have matured from its first plantings in Chico, Calif., to a 1-billion-pounder crop in a little more than 30 years.

For more, see: Paramount predicts 1 billion pound pistachio mark by 2020

 

About the Author(s)

Cary Blake 1

Editor, Western Farm Press

Cary Blake, associate editor with Western Farm Press, has 32 years experience as an agricultural journalist. Blake covered Midwest agriculture for 25 years on a statewide farm radio network and through television stories that blanketed the nation.
 
Blake traveled West in 2003. Today he reports on production agriculture in California and Arizona.
 
Blake is a native Mississippian, graduate of Mississippi State University, and a former Christmas tree grower.

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