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View this email in your browser SAVE THE DATE! JUNE 11 VENTURA GROWER MEETING Please mark your calendars for June 11th, for the 2024 Ventura County ACP-HLB Grower Meeting. This meeting will have a hybrid format, in person with on-line access. An application for CEUs is being submitted.

From Sandipa Gautam in the Central Valley Hello everyone, Please find first California red scale memo for 2024 season. CRS degree days for four counties, Kern, Tulare, Fresno, and Madera are updated on the LREC website.

You see them here, you see them there, you see those brown garden snails everywhere in the avocado trees this year. A wet year. What do you expect? Lush, beautiful tree growth, yeah. And when you come to harvest the fruit, the leaves and fruit are covered with snails.

Pesticides and The Endangered Species Act: What You Need to Know The following description has been endorsed by the Weed Science Society of America, Entomological Society of America, and American Phytopathological Society.

Brooks Engelhardt of Natural Resources Conservation Service says: Greetings, We have an EQIP-Disaster (for recent storm damage) fund pool open for FSA declared disaster counties, which includes Ventura County. Application deadline is May 24, 2024.