Minturn Hullers Cooperative of Chowchilla held an open house Friday to showcase its new, state-of-the-art almond huller and sheller. This is the third addition to the the Madera County almond ...

Peggy Mersmann-Laptad stays busy these days doing what her grandfather did years ago at the same farm north of Lawrence: harvesting and hulling walnuts. Peggy Mersmann-Laptad uses a wire roller to ...

DAYTON — The sun beats down predictably on the Sacramento Valley, providing the energy needed for sun-loving crops. It made sense to seven guys from Durham to use that same sunshine to save themselves ...

Industry representatives, and almond growers and processors from the region, talk over lunch, inside the new hulling and shelling processor, at Minturn Huller Cooperative in Chowchilla on Friday (6-27 ...