According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, the production, bearing acres, price, and total value of California walnuts and almonds have been rapidly growing – especially since 2005. Bearing almond acreage has nearly doubled from 418,000 acres in 1995 to 810,000 acres this year. Production in the same period has jumped from 370 million pounds to a projected 2 billion pounds this year. Production value increased from $881 million in 1995 to $4.1 billion this year. Walnut acreage has been trending upward since 1988 from 177,000 acres to 245,000 last year but production has more than doubled and total crop value has reached $1.3 billion in 2011. Pistachios account for 153,000 bearing acres in the state with production rising from 355 million pounds in 2009 to 550 million pounds last year, with last year’s crop valued at $1.1 billion.