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Following the recent webinar on Citrus Thrips presented by Beth Grafton-Cardwell, a second webinar on Avocado Diseases will be offered in November. Check out the Thrips webinar and if interested enroll in the avocado one. https://ucanr.

WASHINGTON USDA has re-designed its Soil Tools webpage, to now serve as a one-stop source for new, leading-edge tools and technologies to help farmers, ranchers, and other land users understand, evaluate and conserve soils.

VISALIA Last week's California Citrus Conference marked a major milestone for growers, and it wasn't just the 50th anniversary of the Visalia-based Citrus Research Board (CRB).

In 1911, the avocado was a relatively new crop in Southern California and the great USDA plant explorer Wilson Popenoe (pronounced POP e Noe according to Jack Shepherd), describes avocado culture and its problems https://www.biodiversitylibrary.

Although the main objective of herbicide use in avocado orchards (and all crops) is to manage weed populations, sometimes unintentional injury of the crop itself can occur when herbicides are incorrectly applied.