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Boom, just when you think everything is going fine, you run across a reminder that there are little things going on in the orchard that are out of our control.

It was recently pointed out to me that the University of California's online journal is available to all and indexed for searching topics going back to 1946. This is a phenomenal resource, but for some reason when doing a Google search, articles wont often turn up.

On behalf of the International Society of Citriculture (ISC) and the Organizing Committee of the 14th International Citrus Congress (ICC 2020), we are very pleased to invite participants from public and private research and institutions, and from the production and commercial sector to attend the IC...

A team of University of Connecticut researchers engineered a soil moisture sensor that is more cost effective than anything currently available and responds to the global need to regulate water consumption in agriculture. https://today.uconn.

Mulches are materials that are applied to the soil surface, but not tilled, mixed, or combined with underlying soil. Landscape mulches are typically plant residues (organic mulches) or rock, sand, and stone (inorganic mulches).