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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.
earwigs

Earwigs are Good?

June 7, 2019
By Ben A Faber
It seems the humble earwig that can cause so much damage in citrus orchards in some years on some small trees can be a great boon in biocontrol. Read on: By Seth Truscott,College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences https://news.wsu.
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soil

CDFA Grant Help

June 7, 2019
By Ben A Faber
Introducing your new information source for CDFA grants, Kern County and Ventura County Shulamit Shroder and Alli Rowe are two of the newest members to UC Cooperative Extension. Shulamit is based out of Kern County and serves Kern, Tulare, and King Counties.
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weeds

Into the Weeds

June 3, 2019
By Ben A Faber
Management of Weeds in Citrus Orchards A One Hour Webinar June 19, 2019 from 3-4pm) Dr.
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physical damage

White Stuff on Avocado Trees

May 30, 2019
By Ben A Faber
There are a number of causes for the white exudate from cankers on the trunk and limbs of avocado. Any wound will cause the tree sap to run and crystalize on the surface. It is a seven-carbon sugar of mannoheptulose, or its alcohol form perseitol. It's sweet.
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