date:Nov 04, 2016
Production this year in the other two pistachio-producing states - Arizona and New Mexico - totaled 6.5 million pounds.
This years California production feat reflects a combination of more favorable weather than last year, a 2016 on-year crop, and about a quarter-million acres of trees now in commercial production, says Andy Anzaldo, vice-president of grower relations at Wonderful Pistachios.
Meanwhile, as the crop size grew larger, Anzaldo says crop quality declined. He attributed this in par