California just wrapped a monster pistachio crop, 1.5 billion pounds of premium product hitting the market, with expanded exports to Mexico and Brazil on deck. The American Pistachio Growers are ...

Pistachios tumble from a conveyor belt into a bin after being shaken from the trees during a harvest in Fresno, California. The Assemi brothers pistachio empire is showing more signs of cracking as a ...

With pistachio harvest wrapping up this month, California growers are expecting a potential record crop. Initial projections of up to 1.8 billion pounds of in-shell pistachios diminished this fall as ...

Pistachios tumble from a conveyor belt into a bin after being shaken from the trees during a harvest in Fresno, California. JOHN WALKER Fresno Bee file The Assemi brothers pistachio empire is showing ...

Across the Central Valley, the agriculture industry is ramping up for harvest season. But for some farmworkers, this year’s job search is different. It comes with a shadow– the threat of immigration ...

The U.S. is the world’s leading producer of pistachios, and much of that production happens in California. American Pistachio Growers, a trade group, has been trying to expand its customer base abroad ...

Local pistachio grower Jean E.C. Laborde proudly watched his granddaughters, Sophia and Jessica Silva, picking pistachios and comparing the staining on the nuts at the beginning of a new harvest after ...

The Assemi family’s troubled farming empire is being sued yet again, this time by a lender who alleges they are owed $48.6 million. Brighthouse Life Insurance Co. filed a lawsuit in federal court on ...

Trump is not equivocating. “Effective immediately, any Country doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a ...

The Assemi brothers pistachio empire is showing more signs of cracking as a major lender sues the Central California farming operation for $72 million in unpaid loans. U.S. Bank National Association ...