Salinas Valley Agriculture

While you are digesting your meal during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday you might want to watch a few of the recent videos that our colleague Eric Brennan (Organic Vegetable Researcher USDA-ARS) has produced. These are entertaining as well as full of ideas to ruminate on. Enjoy! Brennan, E.B.

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Learn about opportunities to receive continuing education hours. October is upon us and before you know it, we'll be wrapped up in the busy holiday season.

USDA-ARS Spence Research farm 1572 Old Stage Rd. (36.628792, -121.540791) Thursday October 18th, 9 am to 10:30 am UC Cooperative Extension will host a field day at the USDA-ARS Spence research farm to show a field trial evaluating water use in drip irrigated celery.

It has been a couple of rough weeks managing the diamondback moth (DBM), Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae), in the Central Coast.