California grows 90% percent of all dates in the United States and most of them come from the Coachella Valley.

some 85 percent of U.S. date acreage was situated in the Coachella Valley. This production ultimately derived predominantly from 14,000 offshoots of the Deglet Noor variety imported from Algeria. The Coachella Valley was, and is, uniquely endowed with favorable conditions for date production.