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You can subscribe to this  blog with multiple entries per week reflecting what's happening with subtropical crops and upcoming educational events.  Just click on the "Subscribe" button just to the right of this paragraph.  There's also our seasonal quarterly Topics in Subtropics newsletter found at our Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Riverside, San Diego, Tulare and Kern Counties Cooperative Extension websites.
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For Every Season....

January 10, 2022
By Ben A Faber
Years go by and the regulars are out there on the trees - red scale, broad mite, citrus thrips, bud mite, leafminer and more and more Asian citrus psyllid. And then suddenly one that has seemed to be just in the background pops up all over the place.
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Frost and Frost Protection

January 6, 2022
By Ben A Faber
You wanted to know all about Frost, well it's all here. Emeritus Rick Snyder put it together over the years and it's at your finger tips.
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Citrus Microbiome Unlocked

January 5, 2022
By Ben A Faber
A UC Riverside-led team is looking at tiny underground microorganisms for a way to prevent a huge problem Huanglongbing, a disease with no cure that has decimated citrus orchards worldwide.
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Fun with the Citrus Microbiome

December 22, 2021
By Ben A Faber
Individual microbes often have defined relationships with their hosts that include beneficial, commensal, and pathogenic interactions.
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