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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.

There's lots of talk about good soil fungus and bad fungus and what might be done about improving good ones. It's hard to figure out what is talk and what is actually happening. Robert Kourik can help make clear some of the dirt around the roots.

California avocados often are exposed to high temperatures after harvest, either in the field or during preconditioning (ethylene treatment), especially in summer.

Got trees/brush to remove? The CREW is ready to work: With a decline in federal funding to work on Forest Service lands and elsewhere our local non-profit, The CREW is looking for work.

One avocado tree, wholesale, recently sold for $92 in South Africa with 250 trees in a bunch costing about $23,000.