Assailed by mosquitoes and wary of snakes, Jorge Lengua walks watchfully through the Bolivian Amazon collecting Brazil nuts from the forest floor. Lengua, 56, wears rubber boots to protect his ankles ...

BAKER — Along a dirt road just north of Great Basin National Park, Dayer LeBaron plucks a cone from a pinyon tree and shakes its contents into his calloused hand. The pine nuts almost shine in their ...

Flory Industries, which makes nut harvesting equipment in Salida, is acquiring a Sacramento Valley company involved in various crops. The purchase of Custom Orchard Equipment will mean no layoffs for ...

ZHEJIANG, East China — Shen Ailan and her husband Xiang Chaochun stand on the branches of gently swaying hickory trees, wielding long bamboo sticks. The pair look as if they could be from the film ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. Brazil nut and ecotourism concessions in the Amazon maintain intact rainforest, but deforestation by illegal loggers, miners, and agriculturalists ...

Nut farmers across California have undoubtedly noticed an uptick in demand for their products over the years. In fact, tree nut sales have surged by almost five percent per year for more than 15 years ...

For each bag of 70 kilograms of nuts (about 154 pounds), which takes about eight hours to fill, a harvester earns the equivalent of about $40 - Copyright AFP/File ...

Instead of harvesting pine nuts by climbing trees, the man in China used a hydrogen balloon. When his balloon became untethered, he drifted off. He landed 200 miles from where he started. Good morning ...