Tag Archive for: Elizabeth Fichtner

The 2023 olive crop was dominated by ‘shotberries’, small unfertilized fruit resulting from a process called parthenocarpy. Photo: Elizabeth Fichtner. 

Understanding the 2023 Olive Crop Failure in the Southern San Joaquin Valley

By Elizabeth Fichtner, PhD , Farm Advisor, UCCE Tulare County The…

Spring marks the time of pollen shed in Ivanhoe’s olive and walnut orchards

  By: Elizabeth J. Fichtner, UCCE Tulare County From…

Almond orchards are blooming and buzzing this time of year

Growers are bringing in bee hives to pollinate the next crop…