Topics in Subtropics

newsletter
Topics in Subtropics Blog
You can subscribe to this  blog with multiple entries per week reflecting what's happening with subtropical crops and upcoming educational events.  Just click on the "Subscribe" button just to the right of this paragraph.  There's also our seasonal quarterly Topics in Subtropics newsletter found at our Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Riverside, San Diego, Tulare and Kern Counties Cooperative Extension websites.
Primary Image
citricola scale blog

Citricola Scale in the Big Valley

July 3, 2024
Sandipa Gautam, Area Citrus IPM Advisor serving Kern, Tulare, Fresno, and Madera counties has been maintaining a web page on the Lindcove Website Citrus IPM - Lindcove Research and Extension Center (ucanr.edu).
View Article
Primary Image
red scale feeding on grapefruit

Californina Red Scale News

July 3, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Read all about Sandipa Gautam's Central Valley research and what chemicals are working. There was trouble loading the file,but you go to the bottom and click on "Attached File" You'll the wonderful work she is doing.
View Article
Primary Image
cherimoya

Cherimoya Manual Online

June 24, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Back in the early 1990s the California Cherimoya Association decided to put together all their knowledge about the fruit and plant - from history to pollination and costs of production. There are numerous authors who are steeped in love of the fruit. It took several years to bring this all together.
View Article