<p></p><p>The results of the survey conducted by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of nurseries that sell almond trees found, at least 8.33 million almond trees were sold between July 2013 and July 2014, representing a 25 percent increase from the previous year. Of those sold in the 2013–2014 crop year, 72 percent went into new plantings, 24 percent were in replanted almond orchards, and 4 percent were utilized to replace trees within existing orchards.</p> <p>The survey was conducted at the request of the Almond Board of California to quantify the number of new almond trees being shipped by principal nurseries between June 2013 and June 2014. Using the NASS Almond Acreage Survey planting average of 125 trees per acre, almost 67,000 acres of almonds were planted between June 2013 and May 2014 — 26,000 of these were Nonpareil variety. Of the total 67,000 acres planted, 48,000 acres are categorized as new almond orchard plantings and 16,000 acres were replanted orchards that had previously been in almonds.<br></p><p></p>