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Videos of the Organic Soil Fertility Series Meetings Now Available.

April 20, 2021
Posted by Richard Smith and Joji Muramoto On March 2, 9 and 16, 2021 we held the sessions of the Organic Soil Fertility Series. The videos of those sessions are now available. The links to each session are listed below along with the topics covered and the presenters. Part 1: https://youtu.
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Denomination of Pe: 18 and 19, two new races of downy mildew in spinach

April 18, 2021
Gouda (The Netherlands), 15 April 2021 Two new races of the downy mildew pathogen (Peronospora effusa) on spinach have been denominated by the International Working Group on Peronospora in spinach (IWGP) on the basis of a worldwide evaluation of isolates from growers fields and trap nurseries.
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CropManage Hands on Virtual Seminar on May 4th, 2021

April 12, 2021
By Michael D Cahn
CropManage Hands-On Webinar Co-sponsored by: Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency and Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County When: Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM Where: Virtual Meeting via Zoom (link and instructions will be emailed to registrants) Hosts: Michael Cahn, Advisor,...
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Fig. 1 This newly designed ceramic cup (Part #Y2630C) can be bonded to the PVC shaft using standard PVC primer and cement.
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Do it yourself (DIY) tensiometer, part II: the ten-minute tensiometer

April 8, 2021
By Michael D Cahn
Tensiometers are useful for monitoring soil moisture in vegetable and row crops so that plants are not over-watered nor become water stressed. As the name implies, tensiometers measure soil moisture (water) tension, otherwise referred to as matric water potential.
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