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The calls are coming in and have been for the last several months. The trees are tired, worn out and look horrible. What's the problem? Well four years of drought, accumulated salts in the root zone and irrigation practices that aren't removing the salts from the root zone.

Tada There are some new pest management guidelines out from UC ANR. This is a free publication and you access it as a web page or downloadable PDF document.

You come on a leaf with the margins munched on. It's got to be a beetle or a looper or some insect doing the damage, right? Not necessarily. It's not time to drag out the Raid. Look at the damage closely.

Elizabeth Fichtner1, Dani Lightle2, Dan Flynn3, Rodrigo Krugner4 UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Tulare1, Kings1, Glenn2, Tehama2, and Butte2 Counties, UC Davis Olive Center3, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center4 The recent outbreak of the plant bacte...

A recent article in California Agriculture highlights something that we have found in raw organic materials that have been used in mulches for controlling Avocado Root Rot Phytophthora cinnamomi.