Topics in Subtropics

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It's That Season Again When Growers Are Being Asked to Buy Products

March 9, 2018

By Ben A Faber

Growers are faced with an ever-changing list of commercial tools, each with the promise of providing some advantage to the farmer.

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Hot Mandarins. What to Look forward to After a Fire

March 7, 2018

By Ben A Faber

Mandarins, also known as zipper skins and easy peelers can have very fragile peels/skins/rinds/exocarp that make them easily subject to more damage than most oranges and lemons.

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Wow, Backyard Plant Pathology Detection

March 5, 2018

By Ben A Faber

PULLMAN, Wash. Soil pathogen testing - critical to farming, but painstakingly slow and expensive - will soon be done accurately, quickly, inexpensively and onsite, thanks to research that Washington State University scientists plant pathologists are sharing.

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Water Magic and How Best to Irrigate New Container-Grown Trees in the Field

March 2, 2018

This article first appeared in Sacramento Valley Orchard Source http://www.sacvalleyorchards.

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Another Victim of Drought Stress

February 28, 2018

By Ben A Faber

So, this image comes across with the question of what is going on. It's a grapefruit, but what is going on with the leaves? It's happening to two grapefruit side by side or two different ages. It's not affecting other citrus nearby, and not a grapefruit several hundred feet away.

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