VILLA MADERO, Mexico (AP) — As a drought in Mexico drags on, angry subsistence farmers have begun taking direct action on thirsty avocado orchards and berry fields of commercial farms that are drying ...

A potential conflict looms with avocado growers -- who are often sponsored by, or pay protection money to, drug cartels. Last week, dozens of residents, farmworkers and small-scale farmers from Villa ...

As nights have grown milder in the past decade in the central region of the Sunshine State, Florida avocado growers have ...

Thousands of Hass avocados littered the soil in Sergio Acevedo’s orchard Saturday in this community northeast of Camarillo. The Mountain fire had scorched some of the fruit, leaving it shriveled or in ...

The California Avocado Commission (CAC) is urging the Trump administration to take actions to help protect the Golden State’s avocado industry from insect pests in Mexico. In a new report, the trade ...

SOMIS, Calif. (AP) — Andreas Tompros lost his home and at least a third of his avocado orchard to a wildfire last year, but the 47-year-old grower is not worried about his farm making a comeback.

"In 24 years you never see anything like this," said avocado farmer Sergio Acevedo, reflecting on his loss from the Mountain fire in an area where he cleared fire ravaged avocado trees at his farm in ...