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  • Ben Faber presents heat and drought effects on avocados.
    San Diego avocado growers look to Cooperative Extension experts to manage water costs

    Oct 19, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Food
  • University of California Cooperative Extension irrigation and water management advisor Ali Montazar visits an avocado orchard in San Diego County to assist a grower with irrigation and salinity management issues. Photo courtesy of Ali Montazar
    Avocado growers to get irrigation tools, strategies from UC ANR’s Montazar

    Feb 15, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Food
  • Avocados hang on a tree at UC South Coast Research & Extension Center. “Consumers seeking the health benefits of avocado oil deserve to get what they think they are buying,” says Selina Wang.
    Study finds 82 percent of avocado oil rancid or mixed with other oils

    Jun 15, 2020

    • Food
  • The avocado, often thought of as a vegetable, is really a fruit and it's packed with potassium. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
    Why 'AA' is for Avocado Addict

    Aug 15, 2018

    • Agriculture
    • Family
    • Food
    • Pest Management
  • A sugar volcano (sugary exudate) on avocado tree trunk.
    During California Invasive Species Action Week, learn about invasive species

    Jun 4, 2018

    • Agriculture
  • Millions of photos of avocado toast are posted to Instagram every day. (Photo: Pixabay)
    Avocados go from Meso-American backyards to 'world domination'

    May 10, 2018

    • Food
  • Avocados planted in a research plot at the UC Lindcove Research and Extension Center.
    San Joaquin Valley farmers may one day produce avocados

    Jan 6, 2017

  • Fallowing farmland is one way to reduce water needs.
    Drought is forcing changes in California ag

    Nov 5, 2014

  • Avocados are about 30 percent smaller than usual this year.
    Southern California farmers harvesting uncommonly small avocados

    Aug 20, 2013

  • Young avocado lightly mulched and planted on soil berm to improve drainage and control root rot.
    Avocado cost studies for Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Diego and Riverside counties

    Nov 28, 2012

  • Avocado fruit with mechanical injury from wind causing fruit abrasion.
    Southern California wind storm damages crops

    Dec 6, 2011

  • California growers produce mainly Hass avocados, well known for their black, pebbly rind. and rich, nutty flavor. (Photo: Copyright, California Avocado Commission)
    California avocado farmers should look beyond Hass

    Apr 15, 2011

  • An avocado ruined by avocado seed moth.
    UC scientists study Peruvian avocado pest

    Jun 25, 2010

  • California avocados.
    The country's all a twitter with the latest guac news

    Jan 12, 2009

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