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No rain for several years may have let citrus growers think that brown rot control is not important. But it still is and it's just coming out after a few inches of rain earlier this January.

Please join us for the 7th Annual Citrus Field Day, designed for citrus growers and citrus industry representatives. Pending approval, we will be offering 5.0 hours of California Continuing Education Credit for Pest Control Advisers (PCA).

Presented by California Avocado Society, Inc., California Avocado Commission, and University of California Cooperative Extension Download all year PDF here. Speakers: Mark Hoddle: Extension Specialist in Biological Control at University of California, Riverside Avocado pests currently here.

Harry S. Smith, was born in 1883 to a poor farming family in Nebraska. He was trained in Biological Control in the northeast U.S.A. where he worked on the biological control of gypsy moth with the USDA.

Here is a really good introduction to the use of the on-line Soil Survey from USDA. Maybe it is easier to follow than blogs I have posted in the past. WASHINGTON Soil don't get no respect, Rodney Dangerfield might have said (but didn't).