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UC Ag Experts Talk: Managing Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds in Orchard Crops Description: One hour webinar about glyphosate-resistant weed management in orchards, delivered by Dr. Brad Hanson. One CEU (other) from the DPR is approved.

Plants lose water through their leaves and it's called transpiration. People lose water off their skin and it's called evaporation or sweating. When a plant stops losing water and when people cant produce enough sweat to cool off, both overheat.

Here's a nice little summary of the predicament California citrus finds itself in now - by David Karp by way of the LA Times. California farmers and scientists race to combat a citrus disease infecting trees Mar 29, 2019 | 8:25 a.m. | Riverside https://www.latimes.

Invasive Shot Hole Borer (ISHB) & Goldspotted Oak Borer (GSOB) Workshop Tree Care Professionals, Master Gardeners, Land Managers & Other Interested Parties Thursday, May 9th, 9:30 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Nobody messed with this fruit. This is a real fruit from a real tree from a real backyard sent by a real person The whole group of plants we lump under the taxonomic classification of citrus are really changeable. It's out of this changeability that we get new varieties.