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Upcoming Citrus Meetings

July 29, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Citrus Extension Outreach Meetings at LREC Author: Sandipa Gautam Published on: July 29, 2024 Upcoming Citrus Extension Outreach Meetings at LREC August 20, 2024.
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Irrigation Resources

July 29, 2024
By Ben A Faber
In a recent meeting the topic of where to go for irrigation information came up. Well there's no substitute for attending a class in irrigation, such as offered at Cal Poly SLO (http://www.itrc.org/classes/iseclass.htm , but here's some written sources to get you started thinking. http://ciwr.ucanr.
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Avocado Phenology

July 26, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Farm Advisor UCCE Ventura County Plants, therefore avocados, go through different growth stages, so called phenological stages, regular periods where they grow and differentiate from seed to various vegetative stages, flowering and finally seed production.
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Phytoplasma Diseases in Palm?

July 22, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Phytoplasma Diseases of Palms in the USA Robert R Krueger1 and Brian W Bahder2 1USDA-ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository for Citrus & Date, Riverside, CA 2Dept of Entomology & Nematology, University of Florida Fort Lauderdale Research & Education Center, Davie, FL Phytoplasmas are plant pathoge...
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Watch Out for Fruit Flies

July 18, 2024
By Ben A Faber
California inundated with invasive fruit flies Bodil Cass Extension Subtropics Entomologist, Dept of Entomology, UCR California is experiencing an unusually high number of invasive fruit fly infestations.
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