Strawberries and Caneberries

An interesting piece of local journalism this morning by Katrina Hunter, who has worked in agriculture on the Central Coast for a number of years. I remember speaking with her on some background for this article. No disputing Lygus bugs in strawberries are a pretty major deal.

The recent strawberry industry earthquake around the Japanese Olympic curling team declaring (on camera no less) that the strawberries served by their South Korean hosts as a snack during the games were "surprisingly delicious" should sound pretty familiar to any California strawberry industry insid...

UCCE Farm Advisor Mark Bolda will be providing a training on light brown apple moth (LBAM) that qualifies attendees to be an approved scout relating to the Compliance Agreement for shipment of berries to Canada.

We have a stretch of unusually cold weather, including freezing temperatures at night, underway currently on the Central Coast, and it has attracted a lot of attention. Being originally from Wisconsin, it always slays me what people here think of as cold.

Still basking in the glow of having run a really good meeting last week. Great presentations with lots of new information presented clearly so everybody could understand.