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Food safety regulations increasingly pressure growers to remove hedgerows, ponds and other natural habitats from farms to keep out pathogen-carrying wildlife and livestock. Yet, this could come at the cost of biodiversity.

This is an intriguing article that popped up about how to improve blueberry production in alkaline soils. High pH soils are a major issues for many of our tree crops along the coast.

A local Ojai grower asks why there seems to be more citrus thrips damage to 'Pixie' mandarins this year.

For those long drives when only a podcast will do. Have you listened to a Growing the Valley podcast? Here are a couple you might want to check out. In this short episode, Phoebe Gordon chats with Dr. Brad Hanson, Weed Specialist with UC Davis.

In a recent post about lemon shape being affected by high temperatures https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=29443 a grower sent an image of what I thought was a blurred view of something that was circled.