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Ever in search of new crops and especially those that require little or no water, a recent notice in a Peruvian newspaper promotes a "new" crop that the local tourist industry is finding attractive: https://www.expreso.com.

Virulent Newcastle's Disease is Still at Large El Departamento de Alimentos y Agricultura de California y el Departamento de Agricultura de los Estados Unidos estan investigando una incidencia de la enfermedad de Newcastle virulento que fue encontrada el 18 de mayo 2018 en una bandada de pollitos de...

Next up on Ag Experts Talking is Laurel Wilt Disease which is causing major damage in the native tree populations of the south east United States and the avocado groves in particular. Learn what is being done there and what the potential threat is to California avocados.

I recently got two calls about interpreting soil tests that had been done by labs outside the state - Massachusetts and Wisconsin. They aren't bad labs, but the results have problems.

There's so much gloom about the fate of citrus in Florida and California, but in spite of that talk, world citrus production is increasing. Global orange production for 2018/19 is forecast to expand 4.2 million tons from the previous year to 51.