date:Nov 04, 2016
t to an unusually wide range in the timing of the crop ripening.
Generally, in an on-year like this one, its difficult for the nuts to mature evenly throughout a tree, Anzaldo says. But, this year those differences were more extreme, especially in areas where we saw whole nut dry down and early splits. We think this occurred because the trees are still recovering from the impact of drought and overall crop load which was breaking limbs.
However, the largest factor in lowering 2016 crop quality