SJC and Delta Field Crops

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Figure 3. Bean plant with poor pod set. The arrows indicate where flowers did not set pods. The pictured, opened pod shows no lygus stings, suggesting that heat (and not lygus) caused poor pod set at this field.

Lima Bean Heat Stress

September 3, 2020
By Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles, Rachael Long
Last week, I visited a baby lima field in the southwest part of San Joaquin County that had overall poor pod set. Pods were filling lower in the canopy, but flowers had not set higher on the plants.
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Rice Virtual Field Day

August 5, 2020
By Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles
UCANR California Rice Virtual Field Day When: August 26, 2020, 1:00-3:00 PM Where: Online Zoom Webinar Host: Whitney Brim DeForest, UC ANR County Director, Sutter-Yuba Counties and CE Rice and Wild Rice Advisor Registration: $20.
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UCCE needs your valuable input!

July 21, 2020
By Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles
UCCE is conducting a needs assessment for field crop production. We have developed an online questionnaire to learn the goals and common challenges faced by growers, consultants, and allied industry of field crops in California.
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Figure 1. Pheromone bucket traps catch true armyworm and western yellowstriped armyworm moths.

Delta Rice Armyworm Monitoring Begins

May 30, 2020
By Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles
Armyworms have long been a pest of rice, but 2015 was an outbreak year, and high populations have continued in subsequent years. We don't really know why this is happening, but it could relate to higher minimum winter temperatures (i.e.
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