Zach McCaffrey

The Western U.S. is among the world’s leaders in production of a wide array of specialty crops, including almonds, walnuts, pistachios, table grapes, wine grapes, olives, lettuce, artichokes, avocados and, most recently, hemp…

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture have been developing strategies to improve sustainability of plastics, recognizing that the economic drivers that motivate design decisions produce significantly different outcomes…

The California tree nut industry produces an excess of tree nut by-products, for example, 1.9 billion pounds almond nut-shell production in 2021 with almost no market outlets for the nutshells…

Gluten foam composites containing natural fibers and particulates were produced using a heated mold process. The fibers included milkweed, hemp, and cotton fibers, whereas the particulates included raw walnut shells and torrefied walnut shells…

The Western U.S. is among the world’s leaders in production of a wide array of specialty crops, including walnuts, pistachios, table grapes, wine grapes, olives, lettuce, artichokes, avocados, hemp, and, most notably, almonds, an $8 billion industry that is growing rapidly. Since 1980 U.S…

Bioproducts derived from agricultural coproducts are increasingly sought as sustainable alternatives to petroleum-derived plastics and active ingredients. How a bioproduct is prepared can influence its hazard properties, particularly its environmental persistence…

Researchers at the U.S…