Almonds are Efficient News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich. As almond production in the state has expanded, so have some of the misconceptions about the crop. David Doll is a former farm advisor in Merced County and writes a popular blog at www.TheAlmondDoctor.com. Doll… “I'm really interested in working in almonds because one, it's a good crop, regardless of what people hear on the media about water this, water that, and bees and problems with bees, it's a good crop. It uses far less water than the world average. It's about 0.85 liters per kilocalorie, or a calorie with a big C that we see on the back of the wrapper. And that's about 15% less than the world average of water use per calorie of food.”