Nut, Olive and Prune Programmatic News

On December 10, 2021 the UC ANR President's Advisory Commission on Agriculture and Natural Resources, joined by the new UC President, Michael V. Drake, MD.

Freeze damage was reported in commercial walnut orchards throughout California during the winter of 2020. Although comprising the southern tier of the state's walnut-growing area, Tulare and Kings County orchards were not exempt from freeze damage.

A third-grade teacher and a local agricultural scientist partnered to deliver Farm Bureau-supported AG education to three virtual' classrooms during the pandemic. Mrs.

Following a tip generated by citizen scientists in the Porterville/Tulare area, UC ANR researchers have installed traps to determine the potential for Velvet longhorned beetle, Trichoferus campestris (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), introduction to the southern San Joaquin Valley.

Crown gall is one of the most common diseases observed in commercial walnut orchards in California. The disease, caused by a plant pathogenic bacterium, is easy to identify based on symptomology alone.