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Fire Followers – Plant and PollinatorSoon after the Fall 2024 fires in Ventura County we saw the hills starting to turn green, and dotted with white flowers – calystegia.  This is a common sight after fires in southern California, a land of frequent fires. It looks like bindweed and is called false…

Stick Worm, Just Another Inchworm of Geometer MothYou have to look closely.  It doesn't move........until you touch it and then maybe it will move.  But it takes a lot to get it to go.  This is an inchworm which actually embodies something like 20,000 species of lepidopterans - moths and…

The Hass Avocado Board (HAB) has created The Avocado Sustainability Center which has collected recent research papers from around the avocado world concerning such topics as tree water use, pesticide use, carbon capture and a range of other topics.  Check it out:https://sustainability.hassavocadoboard…

June 3 (9AM - 1PM)Avocado Field Day Innovations and InsightsPresented by: California Avocado Society, California Association of Pest Control Advisors, Farm Bureau of Ventura County, and Limoneira Connect with fellow avocado growers for an enriching morning filled with insightful presentations in…

It costs $4,215 per acre to grow navel oranges in California in 2025, California Citrus Mutual (CCM) reported following a recent survey of production costs. That’s up from $3,300 in 2020 (a 35% increase), $2,712 in 2015 (a 75% increase), $2,099 in 2010 (a 125% increase) and $1,555 in 2005 (a 171% increase)…